... had inherited from his father years earlier. Without raising my eyes, I sensed what was connected to these boots and trousers, but slowly raised my eyes anyway and, sure enough, there sat a somewhat grizzly old man covered by an equally well-worn gray tweed overcoat, long black scarf, and black cap. Discreet as I tried to be, his eyes caught mine and he ... courteous enough to let me read in peace. No such luck. Barely two sentences into my text, the old fellow started the conversation I had hoped to avoid. "You must be studying at the college," he said. "Doesn't look much like the kind...

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... in a public school system so I frequently prepared for the worst. My first year in a public school system, my sophomore year, I made a point of combing through all available scholastic material, meticulously studying every relevant aspect that could potentially serve as a vice to my success. After, a year of application I came to terms with what was expected and rejected in the public school system ... -writing amateur. The prompt was a simple paragraph explaining what was expected in a fully developed two-page essay on the early Puritans and their plight that eventually led them to Amer...

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... to succeed, I feel this results in me becoming a failure rather than successful. I feel that I put a great deal of pressure on myself, along with pressures from peers and you as parents. I sat in the Ritter library on a Sunday night and reviewed notes on the history of life for a grueling 6 hours, and in return expected to earn a good grade from this. But unfortunately ... first semester at Baldwin Wallace, I expected perfection and nothing else, just as you did too. Not only to learn that this idea was far from reality. Days consisted merely of studying for exams and nothing else. Thos...

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