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This is the Official Blogger SAT Challenge web site. Here, you'll find the essays posted by the entrants in the challenge, with tools to allow you to rate them and see the "expert" scores.
The Challenge is the work of Dave Munger and Chad Orzel, and grew out of discussions on ScienceBlogs.
Special thanks to Kate Nepveu and Jeremy Campbell for help setting up the site, and to our expert graders: David Bruggeman, Suzi, Elisa Davis, Natalie Hudson, Battlepanda and Lisa.
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A great opportunity to face off against the welfare-society, everybody's-special, politically-correct Gramscian-derived drivel that encourages us to forget our roots, most especially in a Darwinian sense, and follow our fellow lemmings (false story, but the myth lives on) over the...
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Booker T. Washington's statement that success is better measured by struggle than by accomplishment was supported by his life of both struggle and objective accomplishment. But the statement stands well on its own, due to the very definition of success....
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I believe that someone who tries their hardest to achieve something is more successful than someone who achieves the same thing with no effort. I believe this partly because of my upbringing. My grandfather grew up in the depression, and...
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Is success to be measured more in terms of obstacles overcome than in the position ultimately reached? The question is in the end one of definition, of defining the word 'success.' This process of defining is not a semantic exercise....
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Struggle is a more important measure of success than accomplishment? That is a completely assnine statement. I struggle at blackjack and the measure of my success or the lack there of is the fact that I lose all my money...
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This is definitely true. What you've accomlished is nothing compared to how friggin hard it is to get sh*t done. Just trying is good enough for me. Show the score given by the expert grader This essay scored 1. Did...
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Whether or not one achieve one's aims is dependent on many things. It might be argued that most of those factors are not within one's control. How does it makes sense for us to judge ourselves on 'success' or 'failure'...
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A struggle to succeed is similar to the honing of metal: it can leave a pitted and scared surface or it can leave a honed edge. Booker T Washington observes about life: 'I have learned that success is to be...
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Competition is the life blood of every democratic society. The struggle to succeed in every walk of life is both encouraged and often rewarded. Accomplishment, earned or not is a visible measure of success, considered the end justifying the means...
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I believe that the struggle to achieve a goal provides context success but a final accomplishment of a goal is still the most important factor. Just trying isn't enough. A more nuanced thought would be that we should all try...
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