| | SAT Test -- Anyone took the Test lately? | | Has anyone taken this sat test lately?
I took it during November 2006. The Critical reading section was really hard but Writing was even harder. Math was quite easy though.
I wasn't expecting all those difficulties but well, it has passed.
Anyone? | |
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| Sat Testing | | Well Sat testing is probably one of the most stressfully times in your high school career i know it was for me. How was your Sat testing for you? | |
| | Another frustrated 18-yr old senior. . . | | I had no idea if this should go in student or in life. . .but seeing as being a student IS a part of life I put it in here. .So anyway. My school year had its ups and downs. At the beginning of my senior year, my friend died. Just before I entered the SAT test taking room I had a nervous breakdown because of the previous event. (Which thankfully I don't do out of nowhere anymore but I'm still depressed about it). And then life just has to tease me by transferring our 6th period class to the ONE economics teacher that all the seniors covet because he's the FUNNEST teacher around. . .because our previous teacher had other things to do. . .but after 3 days we got transferred back to our old teacher because she didn't want to help out with the track team during 6th period anymore. .It didn't help that one of my friends who was JEALOUS I got transferred to this teacher, had to rub it in that we got transferred back. . .I never rubbed it in when I got transferred lol. I've been getting more and more P.O'd at this friend lately and have started hanging out with this person less and less. . .and this is a friend I considered to be one of my closest. .but now I don't really know if it was... | |
| | Computer & Internet Glossary | | Computer
Technically, a computer is a programmable machine. This means it can execute a programmed list of instructions and respond to new instructions that it is given. Today, however, the term is most often used to refer to the desktop and laptop computers that most people use. When referring to a desktop model, the term "computer" technically only refers to the computer itself -- not the monitor, keyboard, and mouse. Still, it is acceptable to refer to everything together as the computer. If you want to be really technical, the box that holds the computer is called the "system unit." Some of the major parts of a personal computer (or PC) include the motherboard, CPU, memory (or RAM), hard drive, and video card. While personal computers are by far the most common type of computers today, there are several other types of computers. For example, a "minicomputer" is a powerful computer that can support many users at once. A "mainframe" is a large, high-powered computer that can perform billions of calculations from multiple sources at one time. Finally, a "supercomputer" is a machine that can process billions of instructions a second and is used to calculate extremely complex... | |
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