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One Year Older and Wiser Too It’s remarkable to me how just a year ago, at this same time I was a senior getting ready to graduate from highschool, taking the last steps to complete the first chapter of my life that was childhood through high school. I remember at the time how fearful I was to leave home and embark onto the next chapter of my life. The beginning of this new chapter started here at Utah State during my freshman year, while it was by know means perfect or what I imagined it would be, through a multitude of stress, tears, and life changing moments, I know now I am ready for this new journey. English this semester brought out a lot in me, allowing myself to evolve academically and as a man. This course allowed me to explore depths …show more content…

After frustratingly realizing my mistake I embarrassingly made my way to the correct building and classroom. In highschool I had a distaste for english, the pointless writing prompts and books to read never interested me. I understood its importance in a well rounded education, but that by no means I enthusiastically went about it. That is why when I signed up for english at a college level I dreaded it. My expectations were that it would be more writing to prompts, but the writing would be harder and more tedious hours of my life would be spent writing. But I was wrong with that assumption, while the writing indeed was higher level and more demanding, the freedom the class gave me to write on subjects of my choosing created a sense of enjoyment in taking the …show more content…

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