#i hate standardized testing

[maybxlle]

goodnight i’m scared

[blue-footed-boobie]

[saedyne]

this may be a hot take, but - for me, adaptations extricating kon's creation from its original circumstances (i.e. superman was dead!!) bothers me almost as much as the lex retcon

[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.

[pokerface1312]

Things that happened in standardized testing:

a kid ripped up his paper into tiny pieces

i made tiny paper cranes

our advisory teacher plunked a giant bag of snacks on a desk and said “Eat Candy”

a kid, instead of actually answering the essay question about civil disobedience, wrote paragraphs as to why he hates standardized testing

the teacher in the room next to us comes in and tells us “you guys need to be quieter, i could hear you through the walls.” BABE. we were whispering, i think you’re just hearing the voices

so yeah not very eventful but still interesting

either way, i fucking hate standardized testing and imagine these as your fave characters

[masteraqua]

funniest thing about my experience playing ff7 rebirth was that my friend and i kept complaining to each other that we'd rather be playing infinity nikki

[proseka-headcanons]

tsukasa doesn't like thinking. send ask

he's so me

[charliextea]

hate dressing up for work lunches

hi everyone i am smiling and nodding and pretending to be a moderate democratic woman here among the public. why yes, i am going to bite my tongue on why you’re a dumbass who doesn’t understand children. why yes i will nod along to your iditoitic ideas about testing. i smile and wave at my principal across the room and act like she hasn’t fucked our school catastrophically by refusing to compromise 90% of the time on ideas that make our school “ideal”. everything is fine and i am so happy to be here!

[blue-footed-boobie]

Johnny Appleseed

Planted some seeds for apples

They were very sour

So people made booze

Out of poor old Johnnys fruits

and it fed them well

[eggsistential-basket]

oho! found a new enemy! pymetrics!!! Jesus Christ using digit span and reaction time to judge whether a candidate would be a good hire is straight up discriminatory and would not tell you shit about whether or not they're a good candidate. none of these tasks are anything like something you'd see in real life unless a client was throwing balls at you or some shit. legitimately awful. will probably not get the job for this. honestly probably because the "hard" version of the spacebar task was easy as shit. also requiring me to stare at a screen at red and green dots meant the color negative cancelled the colors out and I couldn't see the colors as it went on. absolute dogshit.

[lotus-pear]

Seeing the word apush in those tags gave me psychic damage I forgot there are still some poor poor souls in high school 😭 I loved my apush teacher but lord I hated that test

dbqs are the bane of my existence good luck to you bestie

apush actually has the lowest pass rate on the exam and i’m a high achiever so that’s kinda 💀💀 BUT YK WHAT it’s ok i’m good at writing and mc is ok as long as u know the content so i think i’ll be fine

[opens-up-4-nobody]

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[raskies456]

literally just looking at various potential research labs for grad school and my brain has the audacity to give me the “fucking up the protein purification in front of everyone so badly they all think I’m an idiot” nightmare again

[stars--and--scars]

Hayley writing Fences while taking the SAT is so iconic tbh

[raccoonskoodilypoopdungeon]

actually every lit and english teacher i've had making fun of me for being quite illiterate but also conceding i'm quite a good essayist has to be some kind of irony

[loganremade]

i would hate standardized tests less if they weren’t used as a metric for students’ academic performance and success