(1)(2)(3) I think that there is a lot to be said for multiple choice math tests.

(A) You don't have to have neat handwriting.

(B) You can make a pattern out of the answers.

(C) You can guess.

(D) All of the above.

WHAT baffles me the most is President Derek C. Bok's role in the SAT reform. I guess I must have been under the mistaken impression that Harvard was found of elitist, basically unexplainable traditions.

Isn't that the whole basis of the House system? Our after-Christmas exams? The admissions process? Broccoli Walnut Tofu Stir Fry?

At least we can say that we belong to a definite generation that isn't solely defined by our interest in video games and heavy metal music. I was always a little jealous of my parents who did things in college like march on Washington with Martin Luther King, watch the Kennedy-Nixon debates live and go to Beatles concerts.

Now we belong to the last of the SAT generation. It's better than being a homogenous effect of the Reagon era. It sets us apart.

I have little rational doubt that the new tests are a lot better than the one we grew up fearing. But thank God I'll never have to find out. I just pray that graham crackers are the next cultural icon to fall, so that they they leave the LSAT's and the GRE's alone for the next three or four years.