We’re All Being Tested

Amy Shearn
Forge
Published in
2 min readJan 19, 2021

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Student taking a multiple choice test while sitting at desk.
Photo: Sengchoy Inthachack/EyeEm/Getty Images

“We might as well begin in the middle,” Roblin Meeks writes on Medium. He’s talking, as least ostensibly, about his son’s experience applying for college, particularly taking the ACTs mid-pandemic. But Meeks’ story gets at the same knotty problem we’ve all been wrestling with throughout the past year: How do you plan in a world that is ever-changing?

Meeks writes:

After the July ACT fell through…

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Amy Shearn
Forge
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Formerly: Editor of Creators Hub, Human Parts // Ongoingly: Novelist, Essayist, Person