#standardized testing sucks

[s7-evermore]

IDEA: Idia with a Science-y, girly pop gf

Okay so I was rereading one of my favorite romcoms “Love on the Brain” by Ali Hazelwood (one of my faves) and there’s this one side character there named Kaylee, the assistant of the ML who’s such a pink, girly pop character and she eventually falls for the FL’s assistant, who’s an emo girl.

And a thought occurred to me… what if Idia had a pink, girly pop prefect who loved science? Specifically astrophysics and engineering?

On top of being kind, earnest, and generous, she’s also fun, interesting to talk to, good with people, literally has the cutest smile, wears cute fashionable clothes, does her nails and just owns a lot of pink pink pink! Literally the definition of an it-girl but she’s ALSO intelligent, outspoken, witty, good at games, an AWESOME older sister (Ortho just LOVES her), and is just great at keeping up with Idia!

Idia’s initial thought when he first sees her would probably be “holy shit. It’s one of those extroverted sunshine mf who is the complete opposite of me so that’s another person on my list to avoid”

But then one day when he asks Azul to help him add updates to Ortho, Azul brings along Grim and the prefect and it takes everything in him not to PANIC because the PINK SUNSHINE GIRL IS THERE AND HE HATES IT

WHY is that living incarnation of SUNSHINE in Ignihyde where she’s NOT supposed to be?!

But suddenly she starts fawning over Ortho’s systems and asks him questions and eventually figures out how Ortho’s program works and Idia is suddenly swept up in a long ass conversation about engineering, and then they move on to games, and then Idia says his typical self-deprecating but also condescending stuff about her being a normie and she just DOESN’T get offended and even quips back with witty remarks and Idia just gets SO amused by her—

—that he suddenly realizes holy shit…. She’s actually… pretty cool……like…..I would….tolerate this human being……and she’s also hot……so…….

THE THOUGHT OF IT IS JUST SO CUTE?!! LIKE BRODIES IMAGINE:

Sunshine girlie pop prefect with her nail-art covered nails, twin-braided hair with cute tiny flower clips, white sleeveless crop top with the frilly pink skirt, a fuckin watermelon-shaped purse, pink flower earrings, and a pink flower necklace with the first letter of her name in the middle of it, holding a pink drink while she’s strongly going on about how standardized tests are institutional gatekeepers that graduate programs over-rely on for student admission and how expensive and outdated they are and that schools should focus more on a holistic approach for graduate admissions and blah blah blah…

And Idia is just…

Staring. At her. And he’s breathing quickly, lips parted, his cheeks are flushed, his hair is PINK like the flowers on her braids, and he clutches his tablet like he’s holding on for dear LIFE.

Despite her looks, she’s also realistic. She’s not needlessly naive nor is does she innocently believe that everyone is a good person.

She’s just who she is.

And holy shit. Idia is falling. HARD.

#yall should read Love on the Brain #Kaylee is so cute #she just be sippin’ her pink drink while complaining about how standardized tests suck dick #and she doesn’t even realize that she’s capturing the heart of a cynical emo girl #i want that but Idia and the prefect #Idia hates her at first because she’s too SUNSHINE-Y and too PINK #but then he realizes that holy shit he LOVES PINK cuz he loves HER #twisted wonderland #twst x reader #twisted wonderland x reader #twst #disney twisted wonderland #twst yuu #disney twst #idia x reader #idia shroud

[solace-seekers]

Will, basically vibrating out of excitement after he got a test back:

Nico: jesus Will, what kind of super score did you get?

Will, excitedly showing him: I got a 18/35! That’s like, above 50%!!!!

Nico, questioning everything: Werent you crying yesterday because you got a 98% in your one class on the hardest test of the year?

Will, dismissively: well, yeah, that was some basic anatomy course. this was a physics test. a 30% is passing. I was honestly expecting less than 10 right

Nico, no longer regretting not going to college: right, of course, obviously

#there’s different standards for different classes god nico what’s so hard about that #man an 18/35 what a specific grade i wonder where that number came from 🧍‍♀️🧍‍♀️🧍‍♀️ #on an unrelated note doing physics test corrections sucks #cause it’s either like ‘oh i j didn’t have time to do this’ or it’s ‘what fucking demons created this problem i can’t solve’ and no inbetwee #i could’ve quit. i passed the mechanics ap test. why am i taking e and m. why #pjo #hoo #pjo/hoo #nico di angelo #will solace

[ourbastardofsorrows]

girl help i'm getting way too into the idea of decorating my classroom like a pseudo-medieval dungeon to get my kids hyped for test prep

#tia text #besties i have turned both of the standardized tests into BBEGs (which they are. to me.) #i've set up a whole system for dealing ''damage'' to the BBEGs #and now i'm online window shopping for decor & i'm just getting waayyyy too into this #do i hate standardized tests & test prep? you fucking know it #but alas. they do factor into my annual evaluations. #and the school's funding. and the principal doesn't like that my scores kinda suck rn

[marbledew]

I wonder if teachers realize that on top of the hour of work they assign, multiple other teachers assign hours of work

#teachers suck #I mean not all of them my English teachers okay #and her class is easy so that’s fine #but like MRS MATH TEACHEr I understand we are multiple grades ahead that doesn’t mean give us more work #hehe I have too high an English score on all my standardized tests for them to be able to put me in a “comfortable class” #it’s so forking easy #yet somehow the anxiety and depression find a way #did I spell assign right

[angorwhosebabyisthis]

does anyone have tips for how to deal with the phenomenon of 'autistic need to sort and hypercategorize things, except that there are multiple different axes by which to sort them and you can't use them all at the same time, and the result is overwhelm and distress?'

i've learned that tagging systems help, at least, but sometimes they uh. sometimes they can only go so far

#whosebaby talks #whosebaby makes things #whosebaby does game dev #ttrpg tag #i first wrote up that nightmare of tags when i only had three or four hacks in progress lmfao #looking at it now there are some i think i could narrow down a bit but it still makes me itchy #and with how much bleed and overlap there tends to be with different hacks and systems #it can be really inconvenient and disruptive to separate them completely for ones that have multiple drafts and test run docs #the tagging system i use on here is pretty damn loose by my usual standards but keeping track of game dev in the way i do it #kind of needs a lot more careful distinction and along multiple axes #the alternative is pretty much just one big soup which works *okay* but can still be overwhelming and a hassle to keep up with #anyway this is not remotely the only thing this applies to and Suffering Squirtle especially when urge to sort physical objects #and it's also annoying when it's something harder to quantify like #'i'm genuinely really having fun with this test scene/campaign and want to continue it' vs 'ehn. don't mind not picking this one back up' #sighs #also yeah i have. i have a lot of balls in the air here lmao #this doesn't include the i think like 5-10 docs i made on gdrive before i switched to the notes app because the formatting sucked to use #and the above folders also don't include things like the divination stuff i've made #me with nerve damage that makes handling physical tarot cards painful; making a dice table instead: try and stop me asshole #is there a name for that tag

[boypussydilf]

i wish i could see what modern day tumblrfaring dweu fans who aren’t random dudes in the 90s think about sam jones but i woild probably spoil myself for the edas so i just have to wait another. Ten books

#at least i will save some time because i will probably end up skimming through several of those #because some of these books. are not good! #we’ve got books all across the spectrum in this series #extremely generic standard fare dr who. #life changing genre defying brilliant works of art. #and terrible terrible exhausting garbage. #so it’s always nervewracking starting each new book and testing the waters to see if its remotely worth my time #im determined to at least Skim every single one. even if a book sucks ass i want to glance over every page looking for any fun lines #but like. i know which ones ar the GOOD good ones. because they’re the ones i recognize the names of from seeing people talk about them #unnatural history! interference! fitz! save me! save me! #basilposting

[pantestudines]

having a "former gifted kid" type mental spiral

#i say this because the spiral is actually about how much i hate the word and the general culture around giftedness #mostly because its incredibly inconsistent between schools so people often mean different things when they say it #but also because in my specific case its certainly not a gift but like. what am i supposed to call it. #its literally a neurodivergence in my case that has had many effect postive and negative on my life. but its also a school club. #and its also nothing! before the advent of like modern standardized public education i wouldve just been a curious kid #Without modern public education im not sure i wouldve even been different from other kids. maybe a little socially awkward still but idk #and like. Am i really different from other kids? am I now as an adult different from my peers? Occasionally i will get told as such #how the fuck am i suppose to talk about how much being seperated from my peers and held to higher standards sucked #when the name of the reason why this happened might as well be 'gods specialist little boy' #none of the things that make people think im smarter are really all that useful day to day. and most non-gifted people are like. still smar #i happen to be good at memorizing the kind of facts schools test you on as children #but is that just because i was told as a kid to be good at school and so i tried hard to do that? #even if I am uniquely good at that #does that really make me more intelligent than the high school dropouts who can fix cars like its nothing? #in fact i would say they are at least wiser than me for picking something practical to be smart at #at my school being gifted usually implied you were a little neurodivergent and bad at socializing #often our gifted kids were actually failing classes because they were smart enough to realize they didnt matter #(not me but still) #but at some schools being gifted just means you were an avid reader or were pressured by your parents to maintain perfect As at all times #so if i say. wanted to talk about how being 'gifted' has often made some aspects of academia like hating emails and having time blindness #and not having a good friend network and having many unadressed issues around not really knowing how to make friends #if i wanted to talk about that. and i say 'I was gifted growing up and this sucked' #the person on the other end might hear 'oh woe is me im so smart and this makes my life so hard' #AND FURTHER STILL #on tumblr especially 'former gifted kid' has kindve become parlance for 'guy whining about nothing' #or even 'person who they were told was smart but is actually kinda dumb' #which... yeah! theres a reason many former gifted kids are like that! thats kindve my issue with the program in the first place! #it takes otherwise relatively normal if well achieving kids and tells them they are gods specialist little children. #THIS CANNOT BE HELPFUL TO ANYONE? like whatever chance the kids had at seeming normal has been stripped away #and they now also think they are the smartest person in the room in every situation

[magdaclaire]

okay yes united states muts we were all subjected to the sats but did y’all ever take the act

bc it’s required in nc and that bitch has more sections that the sat and i did not deserve that

#this post is about standardized tests for non usamericans #the sats are required for admission to most colleges #the act is not but it is encouraged #and by the way u say those as if they are just letters. S A T all said separately as if they are initials (they are but i don't remember #what they stand for) and act said as A C T #nc is short for north carolina which is the state i live in - it's southeast usa and coastal #also yes i scored well on both the sat and the act but they still sucked major dick #mer rambles

[milkweedman]

Im like 5 rows into this scarf and have already hit the commission mood of 'why did i take a commission i hate doing them so much i am never taking another commission again' except i actually have 2 commissions and i mostly took this scarf one as some twisted procrastination technique for the other one

#part of it is that i find them stressful and the other part is that its very hard to actually craft the thing i set out to craft #instead of some unrelated thing. so there is no creativity no fucking around and no whimsy #which is most of the fun for me >:( #also had a terrible weekend which is not helping. got offered a... idk bonus i guess to work this weekend at my old job #the pay of which is like double what my standard was there so thats nice #but every second of it sucked so bad. just finished and am very relieved #but ugh. has reminded me that i never want that job again and it is not (as i had been fooling myself into thinking) #easier than updating my resume #on the other hand re: the resume i took a wpm test #--quick sidetrack but i couldnt figure out why google was turning up weird business websites when looking for said test #until i figured out that i had not typed 'wpm test for resume' but 'wpi test for resume'-- #and i found that my wpm is currently 67 even when my hands still arent great and i havent written a thing in months #when i was a transcriptionist my highest sustained speed with acceptable (to a pretty thin margin #i think we were required to have 95% accuracy or so) was 98. so its definitely degraded but still decent #thats the only positive thing i have to say about the resume though lol

[consulaaris]

the score for my LSAT retake comes out tomorrow and i’m not having a funky fresh time lol :o)

#have been legit shaking with anxiety all afternoon/evening lmao #the retake was on paper and pencil which did help my eyes #but the actual testing session was a nightmare that took over 4.5 hours when it’s supposed to take less than three #got yelled at by a proctor who clearly didn’t know wtf he was doing. nearly had a panic attack in the middle of my final test section. #but to mention the loud as fucking street construction going on the entire time :o) #it was about the worst standardized test experience i think i’ve ever had lol #and if i paid all of that money and went to all that stress to score worse i think i’m just gonna break down #but my applications are due at the end of this month so i have to use whatever score i get :o) #this is fine :o) i say being very not fine :o) #*not to mention. i’m not retyping all of that lol #i should’ve kept that damn 163 and sucked it up shdjjdj #also i literally wasn’t even allowed to leave my room during the ‘break’ to use the bathroom lmao proctorU fuckers go die challenge #(they are supposed to let you out. mine did not.)

[a-godot-with-adhd]

ayo good luck on y'alls tests

unless its not testing season idfk man

#standardized testing #it sucks ass #do you know how long its been since I've taken an exam

[thatone-churro]

tell me why.

walking back with her

i wanted to reach

take her hand in mine

like a natural instinct

to walk the short distance back

from the field to the trailers

to take the rest of our test.

holding her drinks

coffee in one hand

to shake her awake

water in the other

to soothe her throat

i wanted to lean

give a gentle kiss

for good luck

on her soft cheek

forget about the sick.

sitting there

three minutes to spare

watching her write

silently

mentally cheering her on

almost thinking the words

“you can do it babe”

like i was in a world

where we were partners.

tell me why

i have never before believed in the stars

or astrology

or fate

but as soon as my horoscope

gave me a weeks worth of encouragement

regarding this

i had read it like scripture

every day

like it was holy text

and was destiny written into stone tablets

and i believe it like it is law.

i know why.

so don’t tell me why.

but tell me why.

- don’t answer that.

#you know what sucks more than having to take a standardized timed writing test? #your brain literally only thinking of her during the times writing section. #grace’s writing sessions #poems #poetry #writing #love poems #love poetry #love poem #romance #relationships #love #sapphic #wlw #lgbtq poetry #the patron saint of asexual poets

[monkeydlesbian]

having to remind myself that STEM is hard and a B in chemistry is nothing to laugh at

#it sucks and i’m so angry but yeah #i’m not even mad at myself #like this is the one time i have never been angry at myself #i studied i put in the work all the time i went to office hours at least twice a week #i put in the fucking work #standardized tests were just designed to fail me

[starkitten101]

ILL BE ABLE TO OPT OUT OF THE MCAs IF MY MOM AGREES TO SIGN THE FORUM

I COULD BE FREE

#I hate standardized testing can’t you tell #Yeah sure I usually do well on standardized tests but they still really fucking suck either way #And they’re even worse for those who don’t do well

[strxngersmind]

i Already hate the holiday season but now im Especially mad about it cuz i have to miss dnd next week because of Thanksgiving :(

#the holidays SUCK #everyone's stressed. everyone's cold. everyone's SICK or spreading around sick. #whos winning here?? who's having fun? #i wanna say kids but we fckn drown them in standardized tests for a week or more before break so like???? #crow.txt

[eleventeenratsinaflannelsuit]

guess who got a fucking 1420 on the psat

#rat.txt #standardized tests suck ass but at least im good at them