Yahoo.

Those little fuckers called the SAT essays should have a longer duration for writing time more than 25 minutes. Yes, I am bitter because I was in the middle of writing a good essay, and there was no time limit warning that was provided. I simply thought that was bullshit, and my essay would look like this, if anything.

"Are quick decisions just as good as well thought out decisions?"

Picture it. A tennis match between the two greatest players of all time: Roger Federer, and Pete Sampras. Two mighty players with completely opposite styles: Federer relying on longer rallies through his fluid movenent, while Sampras blitzing his opponent with his serve-and-volley style of play. In the game of tennis, both of these styles, like decisions in the game of life are like double edged swords: beneficial at times, harmful at times.

A perfect example of a quick decision that has not worked out is the future . I am a college peer counselor for my school, and everytime I call someone up and ask what they are planning to do after this year, they say that they "just want to go to college" without any certainty as to colleges to go to, or awareness of the college application process, or the financial matters of the subject itself (that's why I am there for). People who make quick decisions such as those are usually based on emotion, where the person only desires to do what he or she wants, as long as he or she gets to do it, not aware of the consequences of the action that is desired to be done.

However, a good, quick decision has it's own benefits as well. For example, the SAT's. The SAT is a multiple choice test that can cause a lot of trouble for people due to it's frequent decision making process that sometimes makes them doubt. However, with a certain awareness of questions that are asked there, they should know as what they should answer, and what they shouldn't answer, since they know the consequences of a wrong answer, or four of them for that matter. This method often is a good quick decision, as to it might (not will) give people a better chance at getting the highest score possible, and if they do, these people would know that they have done something right (which I hope I have done it as well)

A well thought out decision is similar to that of an Iron Chef dish. Yes, it's true. A well thought out Iron Chef dish recieves accolades from the judges who are judging it, and might want the recipe later. Some people say that people on Iron Chef just "wing it" after they find out the secret ingredient, which is actually not true. These chefs, the Iron, and the competitor, gets ten minutes to think of five dishes that can possibly be done from the secret ingredient. Once again, one might say that this is "winging it", but it's not. The main difference between these chefs, and the kids that I peer counsel is that these chefs have a rather vast knowledge of food, that they can make out quick decisions, and in the end, it is plausible and well thought out as to the kids who have no knowledge at all whatsoever about the college that they want to go to, or where it is for that matter, and that already proves this point.

As previously mentioned, decisions, even well thought out ones are harmful. I remember watching the Top Chef finale once, and a judge asked a contestant as to if she had a solid plan coming into the finale, and said she did not for the reasons that if she did have a solid plan to make a certain dish for the finale, and the finale site did not have the ingredients that she desired for that certain dish, then she is screwed. She was smart for making that decision, and she eventually won the title of Top Chef: Stephanie Izard.

Overall, in the last at bat of the season for the Chicago Cubs, Alfonso Soriano "quickly" decided that he should swing the bat, and it was a slider. He check swings it, and screws the Cubs out of the World Series. If anything, I am going for the Dodgers in the playoffs, because i decided to like the color blue when I was a kid, but it doesn't stop me from being a bitter cardinals fan.

And with that, I say screw the SAT's once again, and like the Chicago Cubs in the playoffs, I am OUT.