by | February 23, 2014 · 1:16 am

Spelling

SPELLING hysterical test

bluebird of bitterness adds:

6 Comments

Filed under Funny Stuff

6 responses to “Spelling”

  1. GruntOfMonteCristo's avatar GruntOfMonteCristo
    February 23, 2014 at 1:40 am

    That spelling test got me pretty good. 😀

    Like

  2. bluebird of bitterness's avatar bluebird of bitterness
    February 23, 2014 at 6:35 pm

    I loved spelling in elementary school — it was my best subject, because I could excel without having to work hard. I used to win school spelling bees against everyone in my class, as well as everyone in the next grade up. Unfortunately, it gave me kind of a big head, and gave me the mistaken impression that I was really smart. I was completely unprepared the first time I had to deal with subjects that were difficult and required hard work.

    Like

    • chrissythehyphenated's avatar chrissythehyphenated
      February 23, 2014 at 11:12 pm

      IKWYM. I have a good visual memory. I’d look at the word list on Monday and the shape of the words stuck with me, so I got 100% on Friday. My second grade teacher had a big chart with spelling test results; the perfect scores were above a line at the top. I was always there. Then one day she said we couldn’t use erasers on the test. It was the first time I ever wasn’t above the line. It was shocking to find out I wasn’t Little Miss Perfection. I’m glad I got a wake up call early. My sil and an old gf both said they sailed through without working hard until GRADUATE school. Man, that’s a tough time to have to finally develop some study habits! The gf had done her Bachelor’s in 3 years. She failed first year Master’s, so that took her 3 years too.

      Like

      • bluebird of bitterness's avatar bluebird of bitterness
        February 23, 2014 at 11:49 pm

        Well, I never made it as far as graduate school. Once I had my B.A., that was it — I never wanted to see the inside of a classroom again as long as I lived!

        The first time I found out what it was like to have to work hard at something was in high school algebra. Math had never been my favorite subject in elementary school, but I’d always been good at it and I certainly never found it difficult. Then algebra came along, and shattered my image of myself as a smart person. Before that, I’d scorned people who had trouble in school, so being taken down a few pegs was good for me — for the first time I knew what it was to struggle academically. It’s a little mind-boggling to realize that for some people, EVERY subject is as challenging as algebra was for me.

        Like

        • chrissythehyphenated's avatar chrissythehyphenated
          February 24, 2014 at 12:18 am

          I loved algebra, but got slammed when I hit geometry. I was so lost all year, then about 2 weeks before the Regents exam, I had this amazing EUREKA moment where I suddenly GOT IT and I had a ball at the exam.

          Like

  3. chrissythehyphenated's avatar chrissythehyphenated
    February 24, 2014 at 12:17 am

    ROFFL Nintendo! I got a text from Mama Buzz in December: “Jesus and I put up lights today.” Then I got an email. “Jess and I put up lights. Jesus was probably watching, but He didn’t help. Stupid autocorrect.”

    Like