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One year ago, almost to the day I received my grade for my research paper. The paper that started it all. The paper that I had spent so much time and effort on was finally sitting in my lap face down itching for me to turn it over. On the other side, the grade that would determine my grade in the class. My heart pounding and my arms shaking, I methodically turned my research paper over. I could only stare at the letter grade up in the top right hand corner. Speechless, words could not enough to express how I felt. My dad always told me, “ Learn how to learn.” Those words that did not mean anything to me for the longest time became amplified. I knew that the lessons I had learned from writing the paper were more important than the grade itself. It all started at the beginning of junior year. We, the English class, started off with a bang my …show more content…

works I began to secretly enjoy typing the paper. Although, any time a friend would complain about a paper I agreed with assertiveness and a bit of inconspicuous regret, because I actually began to enjoy learning about P.A.P. and creating an intelligent paper. All of the sudden it became important to me. Ready to give it my all I geared up with information. I knew what I had to do and what needed to be done for this paper to succeed. I worked with a concentrated effort to finish the paper that I loathed so recently. My fingers kept moving, words and sources flew onto my computer screen with ease. My room still, quiet, and relaxing became my zone; nothing could bother me. Sure enough I finished, content with what I had done I leaned back into my small and restless chair. I could breathe, the weight removed itself from my chest slowly. Filled with total ecstasy, my paper sat on my computer screen complete, but I soon came to realized that the paper that sat staring back at me was far from finished. The paper sat on the screen only halfway

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