My AP teacher put a lot of value on seeing our high school’s testing scores ranked highly and it showed in her intense teaching style, although I would rather phrase it as training. We spent all year doing repetitions of multiple-choice questions, synthesis, rhetorical analysis, and argumentative essays. She trained us to recognize any detail that could be transformed into evidence for a synthesis essay, every literature vocabulary term to strengthen our rhetorical analysis essay, and all the different experiences and facts we could use to back up an argumentative essay, from pop culture to historical events. In May of 2023, I was taking the AP English Language and Composition exam and had finally reached the last question. My hand and forearm were burning from writing 2 essays prior, I was sweating from the anxiety that plagued me when taking a standardized test, and my thoughts were racing from the noises of people’s pencils on their papers and the sound of testing books closing way before mine. All I wanted was to lay my head on the table and give my brain a rest, but alas, I needed to finish this last