Thankfully, NMAT is now over! But it's not as if I was ever worried about it. I'm not bragging. The tone here is more of indifference. They say it's just a formality since we IntarKids are already in the program. But some say we have to get past a certain cut-off rank. Let the first be so, let the first be so...

It wasn't what I expected at all. The first part (composed of Verbal, Inductive Reasoning, Quantitative, and Perceptual Acuity sub-tests) made me dizzy. They Perceptual Acuity part (which I'm fairly good at) made me so dizzy. Some choices in contending for the right answer were way too similar that the only thing things that could probably tell them apart are calipers and compasses. Of course, there's always the Reading Comprehension portion (which never fails to remind me of UPCAT's Bayawak) which will forever be on the Hate List. Because of the complexity of the Perceptual Acuity part, I ran out of time. So two minutes after the proctor called out "Time!" I was still busy scratching at my paper in the hopes of randomly picking at the correct answer.

The second part (Biology, Physics, Social Science, Chemistry) was [surprisingly] manageable! I even had a lot of time to review my answers. Bio had Botany which we never talked about for the whole of college so there goes that. Physics had electronics (were still stuck at fields, mind you) and optics (hello Sir Art) and waves! The waves part I can handle, but focal points and centers of curvature? Huh. Soc Sci was full of crap Psych (and I haven't had any units of that soooo). But the most surprising part was Chem! I have always hated Chem but hello Org Chem (which I took finals for so it's prolly still fresh) and Le Chatelier's Principle and Qc's (which I kind of loved, thanks to Sir William and a certain someone)!

*sigh*

This is turning out to be a very nerdy post....

So one to lighter stuff. NMAT has been an opportunity for the Lovers to show off their Lovin'. Okay there are three pairs, but who's to say there won't be more? Anyway, there was the gentle public cuddle/head cradle and HHWW from Pair 1, fries-feeding frenzy (alliterations, yum!) from Pair 2, and corny jokes and expressions of adulation-masked-as-flirty-annoyance from Pair 3. Now there prolly were more of this shiz goin' down (eep I sound ghetto), but to witness them all would prolly be too much an NMAT-saturated kid could handle.

So fates and flames were flying all around today, and I hope hope hope that all goes well.