SAT’s – and the fear of childishness

You are never too old to become younger!

Mae West

There are many &*#@!y things about being a grownup. You have to make money. You have to do taxes. You have to show up for your bail hearings. It's all really f’ing annoying. But one of the few upsides of being an adult is that you NEVER have to take the SAT again. You never have to worry about it. You don't have to give a &%#@! what'll happen if have to pee during the test. You don't have to look at another analogy ever again. It's not bad tradeoff for all the other piddling crap you have to deal with.

Read more about the SAT experience from an adult point of view.  NSFW.  What happens when a 35 Year Old takes the SAT.  Did you read Seth Godin’s take on education?  I mean manifesto.  Trained to dream small dreams

Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.

C.S. Lewis