Synopses & Reviews
Effortlessly acquire an SAT vocabulary through hilarious high school essays Every year, 9 million American students expend large amounts of time and energy preparing for proficiency and entrance exams like the SAT, ACT, PSAT, and SSAT with a heap of vocabulary flash cards and a fat volume of repetitive practice tests. Each one of them, along with their parents and teachers, wishes that there was a less painful way to prepare for test day. There is, and this book is the solution: a collection of ten well-written, entertaining essays by recent college-graduates-turned-writers that honestly and amusingly recount wild, traumatizing, and hilarious high-school events, using common SAT words as a study tool.
(*gluteus: any of the large muscles of the buttocks; esp: gluteus maximus)
About the Author
Arianne Cohen, a 2003 Harvard graduate, is the author of
Help, Its Broken!: The Fix- It Bible for the Repair-Impaired. She writes a weekly column for
AM NewYork, and her articles have appeared in
Life and the
New York Times.
Colleen Kinder is a 2003 Yale graduate and the author of the current campus bestseller Delaying the Real World: A Twentysomethings Guide to Seeking Adventure. She attends the University of Iowas MFA program in creative nonfiction.
Table of Contents
Confessions of a High School Word Nerd Introduction
1. Confessions of a Diligent Kisser
Laure de Vulpillieres
2. Confessions of a Rebel Trombonist
Chris Heaney
3. Confessions of a Road Hazard
Colleen Kinder
4. Confessions of a Summer-Camp Junkie
Chris Rovzar
5. Confessions of a Vagabond Swimmer
Arianne Cohen
6. Confessions of a Running Disaster
Tom Miller
7. Confessions of an Insane Intern
Kara Loewentheil
8. Confessions of a Ghetto Soccer Star
Lauren Keane
9. Confessions of a Homeschooler
Timothy Michael Cooper
10. Confessions of a Pigsty Prankster
Dave Finney
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