Chocolate Paper, Chocolate Scribbles

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Sweat trickling.
Hearts throbbing. Blood pressure rising. It was the moment of truth – the most
anticipated distribution of Math test papers.

The class
displayed a wide variety of expressions as we received our precious test
papers. Some had a sigh of relief. The unfortunate ones had long droopy bitter
faces. The others, well, were as
cheerful as always, as if nothing happened.

I couldn’t keep
myself from parading a humongous grin because… I passed! If I was away from prying
eyes, I could have even jumped for joy! In the first place, I thought I would
flunk! During the exam, I was quite mental blocked. I forgot some of the
formulae, how to solve this and that, etc. Good thing I retrieved the things
that I reviewed even in the last 20 minutes!

When our dear
teacher announced the high scorers in Geometry, Statistics, and Elementary
Linear Algebra, almost the same persons were acknowledged. Each one of them
only had only had a mistake or two. Wow. But they are not ordinary human
beings. They are special people who:

1. have built-in calculators inside their heads
2. can solve complex problems in a fraction of a second

Skywalker, Felimon, Mandark, and Drew–the only geniuses in the sea of dopes. Maybe they were the
descendants of Einstein. Or they are just plain mutants… oopsie! Peace! While
our brains were tortured in those frazzling subjects, they stayed cool. As in
they were just blithely chatting with their geeky friends, enjoying eating
their munchies, or having secret pleasure in watching noses bleed. You see, we
had an excellent versatile skill for flunking quizzes related to x and y.

After all my pain
and agony, I realized the most important formula of all. The key to survival
that will decrease the mortality rate of Math passers in the world. That is:
listen to the teacher+study well+love Math+prayer=satisfactory scores. Voila!
And if everyone would apply that, more happy faces will surely be evident
everywhere.

Note: I don’t despise math wizards. In
fact, they are my friends. Trust me, they become very helpful before–but not
during!–quizzes.