I am tired just hearing her read off her list of activities and accomplishments.

It is a story like this that should help us believe that we can turn this country around … good on her.

June 4th, 2009 at 2:34 pm

Awesome job, Diana!

Did they change the scoring structure on the SAT? It’s been a good 22-23 years since I took it, but I’m pretty sure I scored about 1,000 fewer points on it!

June 5th, 2009 at 6:19 am

Yes, they changed it: back in the 1980s when we took the SAT by inscribing our answers on wet clay tablets with bits of dinosaur bone, the top possible composite score was a 1600.

June 5th, 2009 at 10:14 am

So, RunnerGirl, that means you scored a 1400 out of 1600 on the 80’s version? Well done.

Diana aced the PSAT, too, I think I heard her say in the video.

June 5th, 2009 at 10:46 am

I don’t remember the score; the ’80s were a long time ago, but my Rainman brain does work well on standardized tests.

June 5th, 2009 at 12:56 pm

Wow, Runnergirl, you’re so old!

June 6th, 2009 at 9:09 pm

I was simply demonstrating the correct way to punctuate decades:
http://ezinearticles.com/?Writing-Tip—Decades-and-Apostrophes&id=891157

I know there is a general rule here against acting as the grammar and punctuation police, but this might help future SAT takers!

June 7th, 2009 at 6:41 am