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School Victory
by Kat Voletto (Age: 25)
copyright 08-14-2005


Age Rating: 7 to 127

 
Sat in a class
My heart was stressed
Came time to succeed
And I knocked out that test.
Time to rock out now
Ooh yeah!
I'm the best there is
Ooh yeah!
La la la la la... I'm gonna rock... you!
Time to raise it up now
Ooh yeah!
Best believe... I can't fail.

Staring at the cork board
My eyes glazing over notes
300 vocabulary words
And 5 essays to boot.
I've been studying from 4-8 each night
It's almost finally over now
Much to my delight!
I find myself making much out of nothing
Suffering from some made-up disease
called "test anxiety".
Got to have the confidence
And an unfailing drive to succeed
Nothing but top of the class, best of the best
Will be enough this time.

But I rocked it!
You can't stop me
All those hours of dedication paid off
Not a triumph worthy of a trophy
Just enough for me
My own personal victory
A smile is what I wanted, and so got.
If I can do it
You can do it too
Patience and persistence and confidence
In everything you do.




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03-19-2009 Jordan Screws    

This kind of reminds me of when I was taking final exams Fall of 2008. I felt like an invincible Homerian hero when taking the tests, if only because I studied quite a bit beforehand and had mostly As in the courses. This margin of safety gave me a lot more confidence in knowing making a B or C on the final exam would not cause me to fail anything. BEFORE the test was a different story entirely... I felt as nervous ad you did, and possibly a little jittery due to consuming too many carbonated beverages. Not to mention I was going for my Bachelor's Degree in History and Psychology (minor).

I made it through, and the middle part of the poem summarizes my feelings. "Nothing but top of the class, best of the best, will be enough this time." In my experience, it is a powerful mindset, but sometimes one can forget to turn it off and find that the competition never ends. This is especially true in graduate-level courses, where it can be a competition to see who does the best on everything. By the way, I graduated with my Bachelor's Degree with a 3.7 GPA and made summa cum laude.

The line about only top of the class sufficing made the poem for me. It reminds me so much of my mindset during my undergraduate time... only As really counted for anything, except in French courses. There I was happy to take a B because the professor was a native of France and was tough, but I learned a lot from his courses. This poem is especially true on his tests: everyone, including the top performers like me, was nervous about them. If there is one thing missing from this, it is an outcome.

You apparently triumphed, but what did you gain? Was this a test to get a degree, a test to avoid failing a course, or was this an expression of how you felt on a typical test day? Unless I misread somewhere down the road, I cannot find any conclusion. Just chalk it up to my curiousity; aside from that minor complaint, this is pretty good.


08-18-2005 Roger Crique    

To feed the mind and do it successfully is a testament to perseverance and paramount for success. Congratulations on acing your tests.


08-15-2005 Mike Macdonald    

This is a really nice poem. I love the way it's written; it shows you can keep a reader reading because you can write in a quirky narrative style that keeps one's attention. Unfortunately, the effect is lost on me since I failed a math course miserably this summer and have to prolong my education to retake it and the two that were to follow. I should've been outta here this Christmas. Off to the University and to my English Degree. But no, I had to go and fail a lower level math course, despite all my confidence and willingness to learn the material.

But it is a good poem. It really is.


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