Post-SAT Dinner, 1st Floor Rec Room, Saturday Afternoon

[chief-cheerio.livejournal.com]

The SATs had been given in a classroom today, and there was a Student Council dinner afterwards to celebrate the test being over or mourn the likely results. Quinn finished her test a few minutes before time was up and slipped back to the dorms to let in the delivery rickshaw. Even if she'd totally screwed up some of the math -- and she was almost certain she had -- Chinese food might sooth her irritation.

She spread out the cartons of food and utensils, turned a Pop-Up Video marathon on on the TV as an appealingly mindless background, and waited for anyone who needed to commiserate.

[OOC: Open post, of course! Students taking the test got an invitation, but anyone can wander in. I may be a bit slow this afternoon but will be around tonight.]

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[annieadderall.livejournal.com]

Annie had used every minute she'd been given in the test, and used it well. She'd carefully considered her answers when taking the test, and then checked everything over as closely as possible. She was pretty sure the outside world hadn't actually existed while she was taking that test, really.

As she came into the room now, she was still looking distracted as she thought of her answers and was now second-guessing some of them. She picked up a carton of... something, she hadn't been paying attention, and decided, "I think I forgot to carry a one."

[chief-cheerio.livejournal.com]

"I think I forgot everything about geometry I ever knew," Quinn answered, as she picked at an egg roll. "You probably did fine."

As for Quinn's own results ... she was trying to convince herself Lima Community wasn't that bad a school, really.

"I should have done more enough practice tests."

[annieadderall.livejournal.com]

Annie shook her head. "I did a ridiculous amount of practice tests and I still forgot to carry a one. Practice tests are clearly not enough practice."

Obviously she was being logical about this.

[chief-cheerio.livejournal.com]

"Well, either way, it's over, right?" Quinn asked rhetorically. "... wait, which one were we supposed to carry a one on?"

Now she was going to have to spaz about whether she'd made the same mistake.

[annieadderall.livejournal.com]

"I'm thinking of number seventeen, but now I'm calling into question my math on pretty much everything else, too," Annie admitted. "This is the part of the SAT's they don't warn you about."

[chief-cheerio.livejournal.com]

"The waiting part?" Quinn asked, and frowned. "I already think I hate this part. I just want to know."

[annieadderall.livejournal.com]

"Yeah," Annie sighed. "But, you know, they'll probably have the results back to us before we know it."

Or she'd find a hacker- this school had to have one- and make them find out her grade and tell her.

[chief-cheerio.livejournal.com]

"Unless they draw it out just to torture us," Quinn said morbidly. She didn't really think that would happen, but she felt pessimistic. "Where are you applying, anyhow?"

[annieadderall.livejournal.com]

"Princeton and Stanford are my hopefuls," she said. "And Yale and Harvard just to see if I could get in. There's no hope I'd be able to afford to actually go. And I'm looking at Colorado State as my safety. What about you?"

[chief-cheerio.livejournal.com]

"I'll probably end up at Ohio State, but I'm having them sent to Kent State, Notre Dame, and University of Illinois just to see," Quinn answered, like she didn't know all her schools were a notch or three below Annie's non-safeties.

"I think I want to go back to the midwest. Less ... weird than the east coast."

[willbethenight.livejournal.com]

Bruce had taken the test, even though it was somewhat pointless. First, yes, because he was brilliant and found it easy blah blah blah blah. Second, because college was just another staging ground for him to move forward with The Plan and was meaningless to him on virtually any other level. But probably most importantly because there was no exam that could keep someone with the last name "Wayne" out of Gotham State University. There was far, far too much Wayne money tied up in that place to let that happen.

Still, now the test was taken and Bruce had noodles.

[chief-cheerio.livejournal.com]

"How do you think it went for you?" Quinn asked, with a little wave. "Hi."

[willbethenight.livejournal.com]

"Hi, Quinn. I doubt I got every question right," Bruce joked. Well, it was nearly a joke. "But I'm pretty sure I did well enough to get into Gotham U. How about you?"

[chief-cheerio.livejournal.com]

"It was probably a bad plan not to take math this year," Quinn answered. "But I should be able to get into Ohio State, so I'll be fine. Mostly I'm glad it's over."

[willbethenight.livejournal.com]

"Here's to doing well enough and moving on," Bruce said, lifting his box of noodles as a toast. "It's nice to know that we're past the last standardized test we'll ever really have to worry about."

[chief-cheerio.livejournal.com]

"Well, unless we do the graduate school thing," Quinn said, prodding her chopsticks at a bit of chicken meditatively. "But that's four years away. I say we're good for now."

[willbethenight.livejournal.com]

"Grad school isn't even on my radar. I'm pretty sure I'll just do my time as a business major and head straight into working in a building with my last name on it," Bruce mused.

[chief-cheerio.livejournal.com]

"And this is where rich people have different lives," Quinn sighed, halfway teasing him and halfway serious. "What do they do in the building with your last name on it, anyhow?"

[willbethenight.livejournal.com]

"Depends on which building we're talking about," Bruce said. "Everything from medicine to cosmetics to computers to parts for spaceships. My father was always interested in a little bit of everything."

So that's where Bruce got it from.

[chief-cheerio.livejournal.com]

"So are you interested in any one part of it?" Quinn wondered. "Or do you just want to kind of ... do everything?"

[willbethenight.livejournal.com]

"I'll end up overseeing the parent company and checking in on everything else, but I think my main interests are in WayneTech and the Wayne Foundation," Bruce said. "Yes, we also have a big charitable foundation."

[chief-cheerio.livejournal.com]

"Nice," Quinn said. "I have a brother-in-law who runs UPS stores, but other than that ... zilch. I'll probably end up majoring in communications or something."

[willbethenight.livejournal.com]

"Is that part of a career goal? Looking to be on TV or something?" Bruce asked.

[chief-cheerio.livejournal.com]

"I was thinking about corporate PR," Quinn said, shaking her head. "Either that or sales .... why? Do you think I should be on TV?"

[willbethenight.livejournal.com]

"Communications plus looks and ambition have a habit of going that way," Bruce noted. "But I can see you doing corporate PR. I have a feeling you'd be good at it."