A school bell rings as the clock strikes 8. A boy dressed in student attire
walks into a classroom holding several textbooks. A nervous look came across
his face as he read the board. "TEST TODAY" had been sprawled across
both whiteboards, and the boy looks back down to his table where he takes his
seat.
He places his books by his feet, pulls a pencil from his pocket, and looks
down at the desk. The noises of the outside world seem to pull into a
subconscious vacuum as the boy darts his eyes across the room, heartbeat
pounding. Thoughts raced in the boy’s head. He questions his preparedness for
the test.
“What’ll be on the test?”
“I hope I studied for this.”
“Who am I kidding, I didn’t study at all.”
“Oh god it’s hopeless.”
“I’m not ready. I’m not ready.”
At that instant the teacher hits the whiteboard with a yardstick, and several
heads in the classroom snap up. She informs the class of about the test, and begins to pass them out. The boys face reveals he's more nervous and ever.
He receives his test and stares blankly as it challenges his intelligence. He nervously pulls a pencil from his pocket and starts filling in the answer document. Occasionally he glances at the clock and hears the loud ticking noise. The sound continues and echoes in the background, and he continues to bubble.
His eyes look up again. They dart across the room, as he sees his fellow peers. Someone is already listening to music, balancing a pencil on their nose, sleeping, tapping their foot, tapping their pencil, etc. He realizes he's lagging behind when he looks back at his own answer document, only to find that he's only halfway done. He nervously continues to bubble faster. We look back to the clock and other entities around the room to have sound build up and cause pressure for the boy.
We see him approach the last page and last question. He closes his eyes and gives a sigh of relief. He opens his eyes only to approach the god of all confusing questions. The question reads, "in 1665, how did Hertzenberger discover the positive electron of a negative slope using the quadratic formula to 不完全な時制を使うのか with a 200mm lens under 300 ISO?"
At this point the sounds begin to build up together into a large crescendo and bring the boy up to the point of almost breaking down. He recollects his thoughts and his eyebrows arch and he angrily looks at the paper.
He raises the pencil above his head, lets out a distinct battle cry. There is a juxtaposition between his face, the pencil, and the answer document. As if in slow motion, the pencil slowly comes down to the answer document.
The instant his pencil hits the last question, the pencil tip begins to crack and break. The tip rolls off the paper and onto the floor. His eyes twitch and we see a single tear roll down his cheek. Overhead we see him looking up at the ceiling and he lets out a large and dramatic "NOOOO!!!!"
The boy buries his head in his arms, lays out on the desk, and he loses hope. The teacher walks by, picks up his arm, and receives his unfinished test.
