The Secret to Success is B

So, I was sitting there in my English class on Tuesday when it hit me, mid- well, Midterm. I now know the secret to success in life that the school systems in high school and college have been try to teach us, the poor mis-guided students, since we first came into their "care."

So, here is the secret. It is the only explanation that makes since really when you consider the education system. It is:

Multiple choice.

Shocking, right? And yet I've always kind of suspected that might be it since a teacher first placed a standardized test on my desk at the tender age of 8. That has to be it.

After all, why else would so many schools insist on forcing all students to take so many tests that they could not possibly be fully prepared for, unless that was the secret to success in life? Why else would we need to take SATs, EOCTs, ACTs, Benchmarks, AP Tests and Graduation Tests? Not to mention the sundry of other tests that we encounter along the way in this format. Why would this specific testing style continue to follow us throughout our college careers, unless it held some sort of barring on our future success in life?

That brings me back to the midterm where the options are swimming before my eyes. I know the material, but I couldn't tell you which letter is correct to save my life. So, I close my eyes and choose with a blind pencil. Hmmm... functionalism was the French Feminist that talked about patriarchy... I guess go with b. again. 

So, I flee from the English department after the test over to the Communication department to sulk in the computer lab. This secret has only penetrated a few of the shallower levels of this department, where non-majors still tread. I slip farther and farther away from this great secret of success, but that's ok, who ever wanted to be successful anyway. 

I just want to write.