I got my Math Subject GRE scores back earlier this week, I think on Tuesday. Life has been a blur since I got them because I feel like I don't know anything about mathematics.
Needless to say, I got a bad score. Now I fear all the programs I have applied to will reject me.
Well, I just wanted to write/type a few thoughts about the Subject Test, an ode to my failure. My off-beat poem was written in one sitting and is set to the tune of a song in my head, so bear with me. If it really sucks, just put it in the comments. I will delete appropriately... ;)
Tests are not...
Tests are not what they are supposed to be
Tests don't do what they are supposed to do
Tests are not what they say they are
It's a fake, a fraud, joke to me
Tests are not what they used to be
I used to do well
The pressure did break me
In the end, tests were not the key
Will I get in? The tests say I shouldn't
Will I get in? The tests they all lie
How am I measured? By something that will
never say that I belong
It never says that I belong
Oh will I ever belong...
Tests will not change my character
Tests will not change my drive
Tests will not change the work that I've done
Tests will not change my life
Tests are so fake, they don't tell the truth
Do they really say what's inside?
How can I say I back what they speak
When I feel like they don't say
The right things
About me
How can I say I back what they speak
When I feel they don't say the right things about me?
Tests will not change how smart I may be
But they will change what others think about me
Tests are so lame, this I cannot see
But will I change after them, this I will see...
1 comment:
I didn't do spectacularly well on my GRE subject test, and yet I still got into a few good grad schools. Granted, the subject test I took was actually a bit off from the subject I was applying in. I still think school record, recommendations, and (if applicable) interviews, are most important to grad schools.
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