I took my second and hopefully final TOEFL test today. I think I did decently well... until I reached the last question. "Do you think to be more successful, businesses should spend a lot of money on advertizing?" For a split moment, I paused. I didn't panic, though, but I knew that I had to be unique out of all the other 30 kids answering the same prompt. Thus, I answered it through an Economics lens. Throughout the 30-minute writing time, I had this sense of fear, but it was accompanied by a sense of fearlessness too. I LOVE Economics, so there was no way I would miss an opportunity to talk about context and Economics to answer that prompt. I definitely answered the question and gave a lot of supporting evidence to elaborate my points. When the 30-minute approached, I was so satisfied with the essay. I genuinely loved that essay. It was literally a simplified but amalgamated analysis that I'd normally do for economics. But all the jubilation ended when I phoned him. "Oh yea, I did that before for another task and the score wasn't so well..." I began to feel worried. Is it true that being a risk taker is worse than sticking with the safe route? I knew what the safe route looked like, but I chose not to do it. I can't really explain my thought process, but I knew that I needed to talk about Economics (partly because the question was so business-oriented). Until I went home and I realized I spelled "advertising" wrong. The word was even in the prompt. Wow. Now I became increasingly more concerned. Yet, some forum online said that a consistently misspelled word would only cost a mark. I don't really know what this meant... but I'm just hoping that my score is around the desired range. It was fun while it last. But I'm so worried, though...