I Am More Than a Test Score

Pencils down they say.
As I meet my doom.
I forgot to plug in numbers again.
Why did I ever come out of the womb?

I've got the standardized test blues mom,
when you get home from school.
Everyday, you fill in another letter A.
Hoping it will be right,
or you'll be out the door, and on your way,
Right into poverty,
Out on the streets,
no I was never a prodigy.
Never good at basketball.
Couldn't do much in school,
so now I fall.

Down down down.

This is of course an almost pointless post. No matter how much we complain, they'll test us to death over memorization. How well do you remember things? Well, I did quite a few science fair projects on memory, and it seems, PEOPLE SUCK, at memory. We rarely ever remember exactly how anything happened. Which is funny, since we always hear people say, "I remember it like it was yesterday," like that makes any difference. The story will be distorted. My point here is, tests should be redesigned to test your problem solving skills, instead of how well you remember the material you were taught. I think its problem solving that makes you intelligent. How well can you fix something with no knowledge of it previously?
Wouldn't it be awesome, instead of the SAT, we went into an obstacle course where to move on to the next question you have to solve a problem that you know nothing about. And however far you get, is how many points you get? Excuse my twisted mind, this is a result of my dream about having to fix an elevator to get to the SAT room and get the score I wanted. I had to figure out how to fit two people in a seemingly one person elevator. In the dream I figured out that you had to turn the box around, which opened up a compartment for a second person.
I'm crazy sometimes. And I have dreams that make no sense. Which lets me know I'm intelligent. The smart ones are always crazier than all get out.
Or so I hope that I am.
Back to the memory. I feel there are some memories that will always be fresh in your mind. Despite things that are blotchy, and require constant study, or it'll be gone from your head in an hour, there are some things that no matter how hard you try to forget, will always be there. A haunting past, is always a road block to the future.
I realize that I am rambling and making no sense. So I'll try to end it on a good, and purposeful note.
Having a good memory, will help in the long run. You'll remember who not to trust when you lend money, you'll remember who needed your help and will die without it, you'll remember the first person who really believed in you, you'll remember your failure, and then you'll remember how to overcome it.

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