Rose back in the day

Going back to the very first essay we read: Rose. I read this again because I was looking at my journal entry and I commented "I swear it is like reading about myself except this extended even further into my life. Literally until my junior year of college...yikes!" And I also quoted him saying, "I developed further into a mediocre student." Though he was blessed with a teacher in high school that gave him that "a-ha" moment where he realized writing was that important to him, I did not experience that until I was just about 22 years old. Or so. Close enough. Yeah I gained a love for reading and writing at a younger age but it did not affect me as a student. I read outside of the coursework and I wrote unrelated to class topics. But I did take history of comedy at CSULB my junior year and the professor had some odd effect on me, odd in that I cared to try, and it just changed my behavior as a student. I was so willing to put in the work. And this continued into my other classes. I half assed my way through college out of sheer boredom and stubbornness. Then from that moment on I refused to be less than what I expected from myself. While I am just shy of a 4.0 now, having entered my upper division coursework at CSULB with a rough 3.0 after several semesters of academic probation, I am not in any way a mediocre student.