SAT

Liliana Sapiel- Blog post 13

The dreaded SAT’s are coming around the corner, the overachievers have been studying for months, the slackers studied for a day, and the freeloaders didn’t study at all. Although what stays the same for all students is the anxiety and fear of not being able to get into college if their SAT score isn’t high enough. Society tells us that the SAT score is what will determine what college we will get into, but society also pressures students to go to college. What society doesn’t tell us is that its OK not to go to college. College isn’t for everybody and there are other options and alternatives than just going straight to college after high school. Kid grow up being told that a test determines self worth, and a test determines your college, and college determines what job you get, and what job you get determines how much money you get, So theres this pressure/stigma associated with the SAT because students think the SAT plays a vital role in your life and almost determines what life you will have. The reality is that most students will never use the SAT test or skills in there life. Once students graduate high school their SAT score just becomes just a normal number that determines nothing, but thats reality. Students won’t use the SAT skills that they have been remembering for months. Students remember to forget. Stressing over the SAT’s in not worth it, its not worth your happiness. Students often confuse being happy in the moment with being stressed to be able to be happy in the future. Kids focus on the wrong things, they’re too focused on the future that they can live happily in the moment. In the moment is all we have and students should be taught to live in the moment just as much as living in the future.