two hours

Two hours. The next two hours will determine the difference between success and failure. Triumph and loss. Life and death. The next two hours will determine the course of your life. Will determine your job, your monetary status, your husband. Your everything. 

The next two hours will determine who you are.

And as you pick up the pencil and begin perusing the reading comprehension section of the SAT test sitting on the desk before you, all you can think of is Stanford and how you've spent the past eighteen years of your life working towards this one moment.