A reflection: SAT Essays

I took a more decisive route this time, ignoring my usual "find my own answer" technique. What I really wanted to do was to talk about how although media is a reflection of reality, it is still only through the media that we realize much of the information that we currently do. Although I touched upon this concept I think I could have focused it more on the fact that it truly depends on how you look at the subject. It's a bit of the "which came first, the chicken or the egg?" - which do you consider first, that media is a just a transport method for information, or that information only can come via the media?

If there's one thing that worries me most about SATs it's the essay, just because of the fact that I doubt my own ability at thinking up 1) an answer to the question and more importantly 2) examples that are unique and significant. The fact that the people who grade your essay has just around 3 minutes to read your writing just puts more pressure upon you to make something from your essay to pop out and make memorable, along with all the other compulsory things such as a developed idea and so on.

I guess the best way to go about it is to just retain as much information about your experiences and your readings and things in class so that you can bring up examples that are personal yet deep.

I do enjoy writing SAT essays, though, unlike many (most?) of the other people in English. I'm not sure why, and I get annoyed when my essay sounds shallow, but there's something about being taken by surprise with a prompt or a quote to reflect upon. It's very challenging, in a way, and I like just tackling it head-on. While people can just study and study and study and do well on the multiple choice, I really do think essays are a curveball. It's a bit like how rain in F1 racing is called "the great equalizer". However much of a fantastic driver you are in the dry, the wet knocks everyone down to the same notch (it's like driving on glass, supposedly...). From that point on, you either shine or you don't. Michael Schumacher, who just retired, is fantastic in the dry.

But when it rains, Schuey is an absolute god.

I would like to be a Schumacher in writing essays.

(Like that's really gonna happen.)