I, a 15-year-old girl who could merely fry an egg and write a journal, has been assigned the most dreadful task imaginable - learn the art of sprint writing on the SAT! Writing an essay has never been a problem to me, but writing a SAT essay......now that's a challenge!

Squeezing literary, historical or other scholarly paradigms into an essay is no arduous task for any professional writer like Candace Bushnell or Lauren Weisberger, but for me.....well, what can I say? One word people......ARDUOUS!!! And to my greatest horror, instead of using common essay words like 'practical' and 'difference', I have to inject a variant form of words and drop a few 'pragmatic', 'inextricable' and 'dichotomy' into my writing?...........Gosh, this isn't a joke, is it? I don't even know what 'pragmatic' means! A little finesse and talent won't bolster my confidence this time. I'm literally at the edge of becoming a psychopath, and at the brink of.....death! And.....on top of everything, I would only have 25 minutes to read the question, generate a few ideas and examples, organize my thoughts and compose my essay without making any flagrant spelling mistake or grammatical gaffe. 25 minutes.....merely 25 minutes! 2 hours is perfect, 1 hour is reasonable, but 25 minutes is simply insane!

SAT! SAT! SAT!........the word shouts out to me every now and then, like a quivering note that jumps off a piano chord. I've never been fond of writing formal essays, especially those with mundane titles and boring instructions. I loath those! They're just like colorless rainbows, vacant moons and withered leaves, lifeless....frozen.....dead.

Despite the enormous barrel of reluctance, I somehow, have to strain my every last muscle and remaining nerve, strive to pursue my ostensible goal and reach my ultimate destination- Stanford. Though it may seem like a vague shadow or even a distant mirage, I still have to make it happen! Now, with the SAT guide book clasped in one hand, and my notebook in the other....it's time to get SERIOUS!!!!