Today my son, Richard, a high school senior, took the SAT. As you may know, this is a test required for college admissions. Although I don't know how well he did score wise, I am very pleased with the mature manner in which he approached the test. Initially, he resisted the idea of the test, then was ambivalent, and finally took responsibility by researching the test on his own initiative and doing his best to prepare even though he only had a short lead time (i.e., registered 10/28).
I picked him up at 7:30 a.m. and took him to his high school where the test was being administered. The test started ~8:30 a.m. and took approximately 4 hours.
The experience reminded me of a colonoscopy in that it seemed that everyone was hungry after it was over. We had a delightful lunch at one of our favorite pizza places, Angelina's Pizzeria. We shared/split a "slice" of cheese pizza and a large garden salad containing wonderful greens, black olives, slices of cucumbers, and grape tomatoes and ranch dressing on the side. It was so tasty that we added a "slice" of pepperoni pizza. While we ate, we talked about the test, school, sports and watched a college football game on the big screen TV. Always an interesting and diverse crowd present too. This may be the first time we didn't see any police or state troopers (but Richard posits there were probably some undercover agents present).
One of the costs of the SAT was that Richard was not able to play in Game 2 of the championship series for his roller hockey team. Unfortunately, they lost without him. The new season (Winter 2013) begins later this month.