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I t seems as though I talk about college (or college related topics like the SAT) quite a bit in this column. I’m not sure why. My lead theory is that I’m so preoccupied with getting all the right forms into all the right people on time, in order to apply for scholarships and sign up for tests, that it sort of tints my whole life with equal parts anticipation and anxiety.

I promise – and this is a pinkie promise – that I will abstain from all this throughout the entire month of May. If I win a scholarship, I will not so much as peep. When I take the SAT, I will keep all my gripes to...