The scantron glared menacingly from the table. Others might have seen a harmless sheet of paper, but I knew better. I saw the rows upon rows of crisp circles in military formation, turned out in their dress whites. I understood the power that lay behind the innocent exterior. As I approached the table my eyes darted uncertainly around the room. I wanted nothing more than to avoid the military parade that looked to me like a firing squad.
Looking around the room brought little relief. The fingers of sweet May sunshine brushed the tables, bathing them in a warm glow, but my hands were drenched in cold sweat. Silently scorning my own cowardice, I tentatively traversed the endless room.
As I reached my table, I slid into a metal backed chair. The unexpected chill against my back sent a slight shiver up my spine. I, however, retained my calm façade. Whatever internal torture I was putting myself through by taking this test had to be concealed beneath a layer of nonchalance. The others in the room could not know I was an impostor, utterly unsuited to the task ahead of me. These other test takers appeared calm as well, but I knew that the cool exterior was not a disguise. The inexplicable self-assurance that can only be found in those truly prepared permeated the air. “Do you guys think we’re ready,” one particularly confident voice asked. This question was met with a few chuckles around the room.
“Ready? We’ve only been preparing for this stupid test for years,” another voice retorted. Had they only known the self-doubt that was ravenously consuming my resolve. At this point, I knew I was way out of my league, the lone mortal at a convention of demigods.
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After a while, my name was called and I proceeded down a white walled hall, took a left, and knocked on the fourth door on the right. Not a sound emerged from within the room. Suddenly remembering the proctor’s confusion, I tried the third door. A cruel voice shouted “Come on in, I don’t have all day.”
I entered the room, determined to make my final stand against this test. But then I paused, for just an instant at the threshold. Why was I doing all this again? I was never planning to go on in music. Perhaps it was to prove to myself that I could do this. Do what? Sit for hours on end and listen to Korean music? In all its precision and rows of bubbles, this test already failed in its only objective to quantify my understanding of the subject. Confidently aware I had nothing to lose, I walked boldly into the room.
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