Personal Narrative: My Favorite AP Teacher's Assistant

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This year, I applied to be a teacher's assistant with my favorite AP teacher, thinking it would be an easy credit. Little did I know, it would turn out to be an important learning experience for myself. The first week of school our conversations consisted of casual small talk. As time progressed I started to open up to him about problems in my life; my parents recent divorce, my long term depression, and my obsession with my grades. My teacher sympathized with me, telling me his own struggles growing up with his parent's divorce, his battles mental illness, and his poor grades. The parallels in our lives seemed like fate. One day I was close to tears, ranting to him about how no matter how hard I studied, someone would always fault be for