Twentieth night

This afternoon/evening was definitely more productive than this morning.  Although, when I listed all that I had done today, it didn't really look like much in the end.  I did a short practice test - 2 timed math sections and 2 timed verbal sections, and then reviewed all my answers.  I also did 2 essays.  And I went through my math sets from last week, looking for any rules or notes that I made to consolidate them and then made a list of all the questions I got wrong.  I'm hoping to go through those in the new few days and do them again, hopefully with better results this time.  

I also called the testing company because I was trying to figure out how they do the whole score-sending thing.  Turns out, with your fee of $185, you get 4 free reports sent to institutions of your choosing.  But they're only free if you select which schools on the actual day of the test.  Say, you don't know any or only know a couple, then if you want to report them later, it's an additional $25 per school.  Ugh.  I absolutely hate paying into a system that's totally corrupt.  There's no administrative reason, that I can think of, that it would be more money to send results after taking the test.  It's all done online anyway.  So anyway, what that means for me is I'll probably end up shoveling more money over to them in the end because I don't quite have my shit together to know which schools I'm applying to yet.  I mean, I can put in three schools now because those are my guesses.  But because I'm not sure of anything yet, and probably won't be by Monday, I'll probably end up paying if I do apply to a program that I might decide to apply to later on.  But that kind of dilemma is pretty unavoidable for anyone who takes the test, so really, it's just them ripping off a portion of the population that can barely pay for it in the first place.  It just infuriates me.

Tonight's issue essay was a doozie, although, I might have pulled out something OK in the end (I didn't read the solution yet, but I'll do that tomorrow).  The prompt was: "The fact that technology is outpacing the needs of those in cultures that can afford the technology creates cultures of excess consumerism."  I just kind of stared at it for a while.  I wrote something that may or may not have been on topic.  Sometimes these questions - even the objective math ones - seem pretty confusing.  I'm sure it's just me, but it just doesn't seem right for such an exam.