Miss America? Nah, I've hardly left.

Yesterday morning I was slated to be helping with a free practice test event that Kaplan was holding on campus. I needed to be there at 8:15, so I had set an alarm on my phone to wake me up around 7 or so. When I awoke and it was really bright outside, I looked at my phone and it said 7:39. My phone also gave me two texts from my supervisor asking me to be at the library at 7:50 to help her unload all the materials from her vehicle. I sprang into action, threw on some clothes, did the best I could with my hair, brushed my teeth, and headed out the door. I made it there by 7:55 or so, and I'd already talked to her on the phone about where she was going to pull up, etc. Everything worked out fine, but I was stuck without a proper shower for the first half of the day. Lovely.

I spent 9:00 until 1:00 (roughly) proctoring a practice version of the MCAT for a crew of would-be medical school applicants. I basically controlled the kitchen timer for each section, gave them a break at the right time, and answered a question here or there about test procedure and Kaplan products. It went very smoothly, but I did get a little bored just staring at 30 some-odd students' heads, so I read through some of the test. The first section is physical science, so it asks questions about chemistry and physics. It was horrible. It assumes you know what's what and asks real questions! The second section wasn't so bad, it dealt with reading comprehension. The questions were on a pretty high plain, but it was doable. The last section was biological science and asked biology questions. By that point I had lost my interest in becoming a doctor, so I perused Facebook and Blogger on my iPod.

I also encountered this video on YouTube, sans sound, while I was sitting there.



After the test was over and I had closed out my test room, I had a conversation with my supervisor's supervisor. She extended a concrete job offer and asked if it would be ok to include responsibilities at Hendrix along with those at UCA. I said that it would be fine, of course. We discussed compensation, and she told me that I'll get an email Monday or Tuesday to set up payroll and that I will need to email them about the hours I've logged this past week to retroactively be compensated.

Score.

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Miss Arkansas made the top 12 in the Miss America Pageant last night. She is a student here at UCA and a very lovely girl. It's too bad that she didn't make it farther, but I know we're all very proud of her here. Miss Indiana won the prize, and she is a very talented young lady who is also very pretty. Her choice of dress, however, was reprehensible.


That's all.

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