Confessions of a High School Word Nerd: Laugh Your Gluteus* Off and Increase Your SAT Verbal Score »

Arianne Cohen, a 2003 Harvard graduate, is the author of Help, It's Broken!: The Fix- It Bible for the Repair-Impaired. She writes a weekly column for AM NewYork, and her articles have appeared in Life and the New York Times.
Colleen Kinder is a 2003 Yale graduate and the author of the current campus bestseller Delaying the Real World: A Twentysomething's Guide to Seeking Adventure. She attends the University of Iowa's MFA program in creative nonfiction.

Effortlessly acquire an SAT vocabulary through hilarious high school essays

Every year, 9 million American students expend large amounts of time and energy preparing for proficiency and entrance exams like the SAT, ACT, PSAT, and SSAT with a heap of vocabulary flash cards and a fat volume of repetitive practice tests. Each one of them, along with their parents and teachers, wishes that there was a less painful way to prepare for test day. There is, and this book is the solution: a collection of ten well-written, entertaining essays by recent college-graduates-turned-writers that honestly and amusingly recount wild, traumatizing, and hilarious high-school events, using common SAT words as a study tool.
(*gluteus: any of the large muscles of the buttocks; esp: gluteus maximus)

Introduction
Confessions of a Diligent Kisser   Laure de Vulpillieres     1
Confessions of a Rebel Trombonist   Chris Heaney     13
Confessions of a Road Hazard   Colleen Kinder     38
Confessions of a Summer-Camp Junkie   Chris Rovzar     54
Confessions of a Vagabond Swimmer   Arianne Cohen     76
Confessions of a Running Disaster   Tom Miller     93
Confessions of an Insane Intern   Kara Loewentheil     116
Confessions of a Ghetto Soccer Star   Lauren Keane     126
Confessions of a Homeschooler   Timothy Michael Cooper     143
Confessions of a Pigsty Prankster   Dave Finney     155
Glossary     169