1) What really scares you?
Right now, what scares me most is the thought of not passing on the Big College Test I'll make at the end of the year, and be condemned to an eternity of suffering as an engineer.
2) Why?
In Brazil, the way to get in college is to make a test that happens at the end of each year, which tests high school knowledge, basically. Depending on the course you want to get in, there are more or less people competing with you, so whoever really wants to get in the most popular ones must study the whole year really hard. The first time I did it I passed, and got in Computer Engineering. That was one and a half year ago. I found out I just can't go on such an exact creativeless career, so I've quit it, so I could study again for this year's test. I'll try to get in Publicity and Advertising, which hopefully will fulfill my creative and financial wishes once I've finished.
The statistics say that there are 64,20 people competing for each place as a student in the Advertising course. Which means that there are 2602 people fighting for 40 places. So, if I want to get in it, I'll have to be better than all of them, which is not that easy.
If I don't pass, I could study one more year and try it again next year. My mother told me, though, that she won't pay the prep school which is necessary to have the best scores on the test, so I'll probably have to go back to Engineering again. god forbid.
3) Name your top 3 fears.
The thought that scares me the most is being buried alive. The stories about that are the most horrifying for me: someone thinks a person is dead, do the funeral, put the person inside a coffin and buries hi/her. A few weeks later, when they take the coffin out for some reason, they find the inside of the coffin's lid all scratched, and the person not in the peaceful position it had been left, but all contorted with a desperate expression on its face.
Just imagine, you waking up all in the dark, with what little air is left becoming progressively worse, so you try to get out but you can't, because hundreds of kilos of earth and concrete are over you.
The other two things that scare me the most would probably be getting AIDS, and someone finding all my dirty secrets...
