I'm a massive speed-reader- always have been. When I was in middle school, we used to have to read a book at the beginning of class and the teacher would go around to check what page we were on to make sure we were reading at home too. She used to get mad at me because I'd always have a new book and she never believed that I finished the other one.
Like a firework unexploded
Wanting life but never
knowing how
Whenever we read out loud in class during elementary or middle school, I would get so bored by the slowness that I would wind up reading 3 chapters ahead of what we had been assigned, which was kind of bad when we were reading And Then There Were None and the homework assignment each night was to predict which character would die next.
"There was this one time an alarm went off - it was in the middle of '24.' That's just wrong. Everyone knows everyone was watching '24' at that time."
--NYU student quoted in the Washington Square News about students ignoring the frequent fire alarms in dorms
I always read ahead in my classes. Everybody else would read out loud and they would go too slow for me. So I would be pages ahead of everyone else. Then the teacher would call on me to read and I wouldn't know where we were.
<--Sometimes it's easier to get out of a jam than into one
We used to have accelerated reading, and you would read a book and take a test for points. I would always have like 500 points by the end of the quarter and people would be amazed.
Well, my mom liked it a lot and my dad thought "it was sad." So, take that as you will. I think he thought it was a well-made movie, but it made him a bit uncomfortable, I guess. I'm proud of both my parents, though.
DEAR and DARE! Good times, man.
"Blow out the candles, Robert, and make a wish. Want something. Want something."
I wasn't in DEAR, but I was in something similar...I don't remember what we called it. It was always nice to be able to do it on my time at my pace, as I too was a fast reader.
We also didn't have DEAR, just DARE. I'm a reasonably fast reader, but the main thing is that I usually get so engrossed in a book that I'll do nothing else until I finish it. It's dangerous for me to start reading something when I don't have very much free time.
I remember doing this program called GREAT in middle school. It stood for Gang Resistance Education something-or-other.
I'm a reasonably fast reader, but the main thing is that I usually get so engrossed in a book that I'll do nothing else until I finish it. It's dangerous for me to start reading something when I don't have very much free time.
That's definitely how I am. Once I get drawn into a book, I can't put it down. Fortunately, I can often read more than 200 pages in an hour if I don't have any distractions to deal with.
"There was this one time an alarm went off - it was in the middle of '24.' That's just wrong. Everyone knows everyone was watching '24' at that time."
--NYU student quoted in the Washington Square News about students ignoring the frequent fire alarms in dorms