This time our assignment in Dr. Griffin's class was to write a college essay. I think this has been one of the hardest assignment so far. When he first said "college essay" I thought I have to go throughout all my high school memories to write this essay. I thought I had to write how good I was in school, my behavior, and why I did the good things and not the bad but that wasn't the case Dr.Griffin wanted the TOTAL OPPOSITE from what other teachers wanted. In all my school time teachers wanted their student to be like every one else "perfect" but not Dr. Griffin he wanted our writing to show WHO WE REALLY ARE. I was ready to write about all my honors roll, how good of a student I was or even about how "awesome" track was. Then he said he didn't want that, he wanted to see ourselves in our writing. Dr. Griffin wanted us to write about a situation that had happen in our life's. There where I got stuck, it was time to start writing and I had nothing to write. My head went blank. Dr. Griffin said " just write" I wish I could but I couldn't think of anything. I looked at a blank page for three days, literally the tittle of my essay is " I'm just looking at this blank page". We had almost two weeks for the assignment. It was hard but something finally came to my mind. First, I was about to write about my sister how she drop out of school but then I thought about my mother and there where I started to write to reach 600 or 500 words, which was one of requirements for this assignment. Just by thinking how I want to make my mother proud, and how I wasn't going to give up that's how I got threw this assignment. Every time I came home I thought of things that would be great for my essay. The most important was the first sentence of the essay which was wasn't to hard because that was the first thing I came up with, the rest was harder for me. I worked at home and at school to write this essay. The day came when I was finished, I told Dr. Griffin I was finish and then he called me up to look at it. He read he said it was a good essay the only thing I had to fix was to put it in paragraphs because the ideas was all over the place and it was true. I fixed it and now I'm just waiting him to check again, I just hope it fine because I put my heart in this essay. Why did I do this assignment? Not only because of the grade, but to see my level in my writing according to another teacher's eyes. I wanted to hear someone else opinion. I remember all the feed back my teachers had gave me in the past and now I want to see if I'm doing better. If would've just done it for the grade I would've just write about anything or even lie but I didn't I wrote about things really personal.