The
below quiz will help you to determine if you are truly ready
to attend college. Answer all questions below choosing one
of the multiple choice answers for each question as your
answer.
1) You have five minutes to get dressed before leaving
for a hot date. You suddenly realize you don't have any
clean socks. You:
a. Rummage through the dirty laundry, sniffing each sock
until finding two that don't make your eyes water.
b. Cover your ankles with black shoe polish.
c. Tell your date you always wished you were old enough
to select your own wardrobe when Miami Vice was all the
rage.
d. Arrive for your date wearing nothing but an old sheet
and claiming you thought tonight was the big toga party.
2) In order to afford a decent apartment you'll need
to find a roommate. The most important feature in a roommate
is:
a. They don't own an accordion.
b. Their main goal in life isn't to prove heterosexuality
is vastly overrated.
c. When they tell you they love smokin' rock, they are
referring to an Eddie Van Halen guitar solo.
d. They don't arrive wearing a PETA t-shirt that says "cockroaches
are people too."
3) You desperately need a good grade in your English
Lit class, yet it's two hours before the paper is due and
you haven't even written the first line. You:
a. Walk out to the driveway and slam your writing hand
in the car door.
b. You write a fantasy paper titled, "What if Shakespeare
was born a pig?" You rewrite Hamlet in Pig Latin and
title it, "Piglet."
c. You casually mention to your professor how you long
for the good ole' days when it wasn't considered sexual
harassment to trade sex for good grades.
d. You call Dr. Kevorkian to see if he owns a walk-in clinic.
4) Your first semester is the time to get used to college
life and make new friends. By the second semester you plan
to really buckle down and show what you're made of. Your
biggest goal is:
a. To raise your GPA to 1.5.
b. To cut your beer consumption to no more than 20 bottles
on nights before big tests.
c. To get a date with someone whose phone number doesn't
begin with 1-900.
d. To prove illiteracy isn't necessarily a drawback.
5) In order to survive on a tight budget you will need
to cut corners. Which of the following is the best way to
save money?:
a. Stock up on free food by walking into the school cafeteria
wearing a catchers mitt and screaming, "food fight!"
b. Cut down on the expense of Christmas lights by cutting
up all your glow-in-the-dark Frisbees and sprinkling them
in the bushes.
c. Save gas expenses while treating your date to a fancy
dinner by shutting off the car as you wait in the drive-thru
line.
d. Eliminate the high cost of meat by getting all your
protein from beans. This has the added benefit of insuring
you won't have any friends who'll try to talk you into going
out on weekends.
6) In order to have a chance of being accepted, it's
crucial that, on your college application you don't mention:
a. In high school you were voted "most likely to become
a political prisoner."
b. You haven't tried to kill any teachers since the doctor
tripled your Prozac dosage.
c. That Animal House is your favorite movie.
d. Although you failed several courses in high school you
always earned an A for effort.
7) It's a generally considered a bad sign if:
a. You're asked to pledge "Geek."
b. MIT tells you they'll accept you as long as you qualify
for their football scholarship.
c. Your English professor suggests you transfer to English
as a Second Language.
d. An aptitude shows you're best qualified to be homeless.
8) The only hope you have of passing your calculus final
is:
a. Tattoo the answers on the inside of your eyelids.
b. Secure pictures of your professor dressing a sheep in
a nightgown.
c. You have no hope since you've never passed as much as
a urine test.
d. Study hard. (I'm just checking whether you're paying
attention.)
9) When you go for that all-important interview at the
college of your dreams, be sure to impress the interviewer
by:
a. Blowing smoke rings with the Cuban cigars you brag about
smuggling into the country.
b. Demonstrating how you can belch the school fight song.
c. Explaining why academia is the real power behind the
evil United Nations and the New World Order, and how you've
figured out how to build a powerful bomb out of old newspapers
and Hershey's syrup.
d. Speak in tongues.
10) Employers tend to hire students who were active
in campus organizations. In order to make yourself a more
attractive job candidate, you should join the:
a. Intramural Nude Volleyball Team.
b. FAA (Future Alcoholics of America.)
c. Academic Probation Club. (It shows initiative to join
before you take your first class.)
d. All of the below.
Scoring your test:
For each A - add 5 points.
For each B - divide by 1.377 points.
For each C - multiply by 0 points.
For each D - subtract 500 points.
For each F that you circled - See an eye doctor.
If you scored between 50 and negative 2,000 points: Consult
a mental health practitioner immediately!