Well, for me, junior year is almost done, and with the closing out of junior year means the closing out of standardized college entrance exams. This year has been filled with quite a number of tests of various things, from PSAT to SAT to ACT to Subject Tests to AP exams to all of these other things. However, one of the more contentious debates between tests of this class is between the SAT and the ACT. Both are general-subject standardized college entrance exams, and are often said to “compete” between each other to be the test of choice. Well, now that I’ve prepared for, taken, and gotten scores for each of these exams, I thought that I’d take the opportunity to review them and offer my opinion on the one that I like better. (I do promise that although my scores differ a bit between the two exams, I am not considering how I scored on each exam in this review.)
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Bill Nye the Science Guy is awesome. This clip is one of the music parodies he does at the end of each of his shows (which, if you haven’t seen his old show, is awesome). The show was taking about the heart and blood, which brings us to this parody of the song “Love Shack.” Now I’m not saying that I even like the song “Love Shack,” but having heard it around every once and awhile, this was certainly a great parody of that video, very funny.

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