I strolled into money management class several minutes late as I normally do. I have no care about this class and especially none for the professor. Mrs. Murray was one of those absurdly happy people about everything for no reason, and at a turn of the dime could start yelling at you for the littlest of things. The strangest thing about her though was her fondness of me. She always acted like I cared so much about her class because I scored well. In reality, it was merely because it was a joke of a class and I was on the more intelligent side. It may have been arrogant of me, but I felt that I was better than most people in the class. They took it and felt that the class was impossible. Me on the other hand simply took it to fill in some credits as a blow away class for senior year in high school.
I continued my way to my seat when I noticed that everyone was getting up and moving outward. They all began to sit on the outside of the room where there were computers lined up against 3 out of the 4 walls in the room. I quickly grabbed one of the remaining stations and started zoning out.
"today we will take a test and the highest score will get a special prize, but the scores won't affect your grade blah blah blah."
I really didn't care after I found out it wouldn't count towards my grade. I still obediently booted up my computer and went to take this assessment. It was three different tests and they covered general knowledge of each individual. I finished rather quickly because I normally do and they were also all multiple choice. I look at my grade at the final which was out of 60, and I had scored a 44. I quickly think hmm a 44/60 is about a 73-74. In my mind this isn't a great score but it didn't count so I didn't care much. Then I start hearing people say, "I can't believe that I only got a 35" and "that was such a hard test". I didn't think twice about it until 2 weeks to the day.
I arrive to class and she calls out 4 names in the class, mine being one of them and she tells us to go to room 215. I have no idea what anyone could have done but we all stroll in together and see Mrs. Mitchell sitting at her desk with a sheet of paper in her hands. She says that the exam we all took was a test to see who would be on the team this year. What team my friend brad asked, with the reply of "the life smarts team". I immediately regret even trying on the exam because I knew where this was going. She calls out my name, I say hello and she congratulates me on being the person who scored the highest in the entire school and appoints me captain. She begins her spiel about how it is such a great honor to be part of the team, yet I feel the complete opposite of that.
I could not believe what I had gotten myself into. All I simply wanted to do was sit in the back of the class and take my free A. It was a space filling class that I only took because it would be easy. Never would I have thought that my intelligence would ever get me into this kind of mess. Going to a fancy jeopardy contest with a bunch of kids who try to hard is not my idea of fun but I had to suffer the consequences of my own Knowledge.
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