Confessions of a High School Word Nerd : Increase Your SAT Verbal Score While Laughing Your Gluteus Off

by Cohen, Arianne (Author); Kinder, Colleen (Author)

• ISBN13: 9780143038368
• ISBN10: 0143038362
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-01-02
• Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)

Summary

Effortlessly acquire an SAT vocabulary through hilarious high school essaysEvery 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)

Author Biography

Arianne Cohen, a 2003 Harvard graduate, is the author of Help, It-'s 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 Twentysomething-'s Guide to Seeking Adventure. She attends the University of Iowa-'s MFA program in creative nonfiction.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Confessions of a Diligent Kisser	p. 1
Confessions of a Rebel Trombonist	p. 13
Confessions of a Road Hazard	p. 38
Confessions of a Summer-Camp Junkie	p. 54
Confessions of a Vagabond Swimmer	p. 76
Confessions of a Running Disaster	p. 93
Confessions of an Insane Intern	p. 116
Confessions of a Ghetto Soccer Star	p. 126
Confessions of a Homeschooler	p. 143
Confessions of a Pigsty Prankster	p. 155
Glossary	p. 169
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