I took the ACT today with tons of other high school students. I was waiting in line, waiting for it to start, when I started wondering how much money people made from students taking this test. I think they make a lot of money doing it. It costs $30-40 to take the test. I would say about $10 per person would be put towards paying the professors to write the test, people to give it, and people to correct it. It probably costs less than a dollar to print the test materials. That still leaves $20-30 per high school student taking it to the makers of the ACT. Then you have to realize that they give this test around 5 times a year. Someone has to be making a lot of money. I think maybe I'll just make a prestigious test company and make millions. It would be really easy. The AP test is another one. They re-use about 2/3 of the test each time. So the only parts they have to write are the free-response and a third of the multiple choice. It does cost more money to grade these ones though, because they have to fly a bunch of teachers out, pay for their room and board, and pay for them to grade the tests. But each AP test costs $83 to take. Figure that one out.

I was riding on the freeway today, noticing how crazy Utah drivers are. So I started wondering, Why are Utah drivers the worst drivers in the nation? I started thinking of some answers. I think one reason is that Utahns have this mindset of putting themselves before anyone else. That would cause them to drive recklessly, because they would think that someone else should yield to them. Maybe it’s the whole driver’s ed program. I wouldn’t really know, because I’ve never taken driver’s ed, especially here and in another state. I was thinking it might be the requirements people have to have to get a driver’s license. Maybe the test isn’t as hard or you don’t need to do as much. Maybe it’s that our police force doesn’t crack down on it enough. I think that they should crack down on it more, because it really almost scares me into not wanting to drive. Anywho, all I know is that Utahns are crazy drivers. So a word of caution if you are coming to Utah, expect to see a ton of crazy stunts by stupid, idiotic drivers.

Yesterday, a very interesting thing happened. A bird attacked another bird and started eating it on my lawn. When I came outside, the bird flew away, leaving it's prey behind. I inspected the bird and found that it had a tag on one of it's legs. I called my mom to come out, and she ended up putting it into a shoe box. We asked around, and found that the dead bird was probably a competition pigeon and its predator was a falcon. I wondered, "Why would one bird turn another of its own kind into carrion?" Well, one of the people that saw it said that its talon was caught in the pigeon when they pulled up. I thought maybe it just chewed out the area around its talon so that it could get away. But when I looked at the bird, there was a big gaping hole on one side that looked like the predator was trying to get to the heart or something else. I don't think it would've had to eat away that much to get its talon out. Then I thought that maybe it was hungry and couldn't find anything else to eat, so why not just it what was easy to find? I also thought that maybe it usually ate pigeons. My most radical thought was that the devil took the predator over and just decided to go on a killing spree. I don't know if I'll ever find out for sure, but I think I'll go with the circle of life theory and say that it normally eats pigeons.