For the past six weeks, I took a total of three 'research sessions' to monitor how teenagers react to certain tasks and environments.

...It was hell. At least, the parts that didn't involve me watching 'Mary Poppins' and spitting into tubes.

Session 1 was just me, well... Spitting into tubes while they monitored my pulse and breathing while I was watching 'Mary Poppins'

Session 2 was hilarious. I was in a room with two other 'teenagers' (they were clearly 25+) and I had to talk to them for 10 minutes.

Session 3 was horrible, just horrible. I had to talk about my favorite politician (George Washington, mofo) for 3 minutes. In the middle of me fluently speaking without a problem, the guy monitoring me says, "Speak louder" so I spoke slowly at him as if he were a 'tard . Then, I had to talk about global warming, where he questioned my accuracy... Because apparently CFCs didn't destroy the Ozone layer... And then, my favorite part! I was able to talk about my all-time favorite book, Looking for Alaska. I was thirty seconds in when the guy said, "This part of the session is now over" (in my head, I was fuming).

Next part of the session was where I had to calculate numbers.

The first calculation was to count down from 2400 by 8. Easy enough.
Next was to count down by 2744 by 12. A little harder, plus, when I was calculating perfectly, he told me to start completely over.
Last was to count down by 4971 by 17. I counted down at breakneck speed and got it all right, but he still said, "Please start over and try again" in monotone.

The last part of the session was horrific-rendous. I had to do "the mirror trace" which is mental torture. I was given a metal pen, and a metal tray covered my hands. (I was not allowed to see my hands). I had to trace a large star with very varying curves as many times as I could. There was a mirror in front of my hands to track my progress (which reversed all my actions, FYI). I got 0 times, and by this time my self-esteem was so low that it was almost nonexistent.

After all of that annoyance, I walk into the room to get my $40 for the third and final session, when the woman who runs the program said, "You were going so fast through all of the trials, they were running out of tasks," That shocked me immediately. And, she continued, "Nobody ever gets past 0 star tracings, you almost made it to 1. You climbed all the way down the number ladder and they were starting to make numbers on improv. The speech part, you went so perfectly that they were forced to interrupt you to slow you down."

That was a pretty awesome reassurance. I took my last $40 and left. Probably the weirdest test sessions ever, but I got $120!

Where'd you take the tests at?

I might do something like this XD

The only thing I would mess up on is the numbers and the speech.
I can count down from 8 fast.
I can count down from 12 not son fast.
17?! WHERE THE F*** DID THAT COME FROM?!

Politician: I hate politics.
Global Warming: I know a good amount about this.
Favorite Book: Book?

Anyways, nice job

You can go Hoppin street, and there should be a small place to take it. You have to sign up though; your mom has the number to there (no, I mean she literally has the number to the place) and they'll see if you qualify for it As long as you're not an alcoholic, you'll more than likely get in.

And what exaclty is this research for?

The research is "How teenagers emotionally and physically respond to tasks." which they test you for EVERYTHING from spitting into tubes while watching Pagemaster or Mary Poppins to doing that horror show of a "Tracing" task.

Adults can be seriously irritating sometimes. At least they paid you for it, instead of forcing you to do it.