Angelene Woo Last Saturday, January 23, sixty-one students showed up at Dalat International School to take the SAT Reasoning Test and the SAT Subject Tests. I was there to witness the horrendous effects of the sinister and suffocating SAT. Many students broke out in cold sweats. Some complained of shaky, sweaty hands when trying to write the essay, and others even experienced shortness of breath and heart palpitations. On the verge of a nervous breakdown, Keito Watanabe (11) reported abnormally cold toes and a headache. "I had been studying for about a month for this SAT, but even with this much studying, my mind was still in a panicked state. Sleepless nights continued as I worried about the expectations from my parents and my future college. I felt hopeless; it was as if I was swimming in a pool filled with hot, blazing lava." One rare fellow, however, was rather nonchalant and apathetic towards the test. Mathias Maurin (11) said, “The SAT didn't worry me t...