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I vomited last night right after getting my MCAT scores back. To be fair to me, this wasn't just a result of a defunct stress-handling system. I had already indulged in a number of drinks made by Blaire, a girl who, historically, kills her victims with potent booze innocently disguised to taste like pumpkin pie, creamsicles or candy.

That the scores were already posted on the AAMC (Aardvark and Armadillo Mutual Compact) website was a tidbit handed down to me by Ashish, a twisted knob on the internet grapevine. Three people had to walk me through the website registration process because I was so nervous that I refused to read the title of the fields before I filled them in. My date of birth almost became my social security number.

This morning Ashish and I talked about our scores at length, and at a certain point, sounded like gossip. Gossiping about standardized tests toke me back to the days when I would do the same in gym class with Leah Feder as we scrambled across the pickleball court in heated battle. It's a little (a lot) shameful that we'd be using scores as a gossip item and I imagined a world where overachievers ran the tabloids-- a world where the front page of The Mirror would speculate on how the Federletus would score on his Iowas. Just as The National Enquirer did with its coverage of the Heidi Klum-Seal marriage, parallel-universe tabloid would ask tough questions about race--like why Asians require much higher scores to get into medical school (thanks affirmative action). It'd be a pretty shitty world.

I did well enough that I don't plan on a retake, btw.