as the world turns

Oh, how we love standardized testing. Honestly, the whole process of just studying, taking 3-hour long practice tests daily, running out of time on every section, finding out that you got half the questions wrong when checking, going back and trying to figure out the right answer even though you can’t, having mild anxiety attacks due to the pressure of getting into a good college, paying $60 just to take a test you don’t even want to take, waking up super early when your brain isn’t even functioning on the day of the exam, and getting your score back just to reconfirm your fricking illiteracy makes me so incredibly happy. On another note, getting a mediocre score on the SAT means being comforted by everyone around you, telling you that you can and will do better next time. They don’t judge you or make an inference about your intelligence level at all! On top of that, you keep retaking the test, paying $60 to the government each and every time, while the government spends this money on...

There are hundreds and thousands of starving children out in the world, searching for anything that will satisfy their growling stomachs. Being the generous souls that they are, Lays has given us the gift of beautiful yellow plastic bags of air PLUS a few free chips thrown in there! Other brands, such as Doritos, Fritos, and PopChips, have recognized this tactic and thought maybe instead of selling whole chip bags we can help society by giving them more oxygen to breathe. And it totally worked; lines of customers filled aisle ways to purchase these luxurious air bags for ONLY three hard-earned dollars. These brands have also made the effort to make the bags out of pure metalized  polypropylene meaning they cannot be recycled. How thoughtful of them, right? Now we don’t have to worry about finding a recycling bin; we can simply dispose of the bag whenever and wherever, whether it be on the grass of a park or the coast of a beach. Honestly the turtles and fish on these beaches are ...