well, friends, over the past six days i have read exactly 1,925 essays on the same prompt. that number looks like one i would make up, right? random high number? FALSE. i have been keeping track - tally marks for each packet of 25 that i finish - and that is the total number. I AM AMAZING. BOW DOWN TO ME. (no, seriously - i need some positive reinforcement here. tell me i'm awesome.) the people in charge let us go at 4pm today instead of 5 and people screamed and clapped. we are that tired of reading the same essay again and again. one more day to go, but the fact that they let us out early today leads me to believe we'll get out early tomorrow, too. honestly, i don't know how many more of these essays i can read without going crazy, so getting out early is necessary. i just had a long phone conversation with willis, in which he relayed funny stories from a boys' weekend in durham and gave me some much needed laughter...i'm going on a long walk next, and then getting dinner and settling in to watch a movie. where am i getting dinner, you ask? well, the options within walking distance of my hotel are:
1. indian food (already had that twice)
2. sushi (already had that twice)
3. burger king (embarrassingly already had that twice)
4. barbeque joints (eww)
5. restaurants with a nascar theme (no way)
6. quizno's sub shop (a possibility)
7. chain pizza restaurants (a possibility)
8. oh wait, that's it. legitimately it.
i might be walking into a papa john's and placing an order for take out. so classy.
i can't wait to get back to the food utopia that is atlanta.
oh, and i keep forgetting to tell you guys this: the convention center where we're grading AP exams had a big sign out front that alternates between flashing two things: "welcome college board AP readers!" and "tickets on sale for WWE raw on july 31." you know, one location, two similar events: exciting AP grading one month, fake wrestling the next. no discrepancy there AT ALL.
So, the numbers do not add up. Not even close. You report: 221,000 students took AP exam, there are 600 readers, and 4 readers grade each exam. Doing the math: (221,000/600) X 4 = 1,473 per reader. If you have read 1,925, you have exceeded the average by 30% WITH ONE DAY LEFT. You are clearly a superstar.
ReplyDeleteWhat on earth did you eat at a Burger King? I can't think of a thing that would be on the menu that is veggie-friendly.
ReplyDeleteaha! good work, dad. i'm reading question #4, which is apparently being graded the quickest - in addition to us being THE BEST GRADERS EVER, the question is pretty straight forward and thus quick to grade. question #3, on the other hand - a whole different story. there's a chart to interpret and the facts the graders are looking for are more specific. in fact, yesterday 35 readers from question 4 got sent to question 3 in order to bring it up to speed so they finish at the same time as the rest of us. so i probably am reading more exams than the average person, but it's not all because i'm awesome. (just mostly.)
ReplyDeleteand nora: burger king has a veggie burger that's actually decent - morningstar farms, i think. it's the only fast food place that has one, and thus all my road trips include stops at burger king. until this week, that was the only time i ever ate there...