Why I Hate College…
Because of one evil little testing device: THE TIMED ESSAY (cue cheesy ‘doom music’). I, being the -extremely- lucky person that I am, have two this semester, one in English and the other in Western Civ. And what do these timed essays actually show of our ability to retain information and coherently recall it? Absolutely NOTHING. It only tests our ability to slop down a few bits and pieces of information into a blue book in a 50 minute time frame.
Timed essays do little more than to add even more stress to students, especially during finals. I don’t know about anyone else, but I find it exceedingly difficult to correctly structure an essay, coherently state facts, and answer the prompt completely in 50 minutes.
I say we revolt. Burn our blue books!
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