I was teaching a class on natural cellular defense and I had a student who was particularly keen on the subject. She seemed to know the answers to all of the questions I asked and I knew that se was either going to be someone who listened and did really well in the class or someone who would drive me crazy, thinking that she knew more on the subject than I did.

I decided to ask her to stay after class and find out which one it was going to be. I found out why she knew so much on the subject and it really surprised me. She was a distributor of liquid Zeolite and, to obtain higher sales, she immersed herself in everything about it in order to be able to answer and questions potential customers may have.

I was actually really impressed that she had taken the initiative to learn about it, rather than just try to scam people into buying it. In fact, I think I am now one of her best customers.

What I was going to medical school I decided that I wanted to specialize in sleeping disorders.  Many members of my family suffer from sleep apnea and I knew it was something that I wanted to research into more.  During that time I wanted to see if I could make a sleep apnea machine that was better than the ones my family is at home.

I contacted a CPAP supply company to get all the parts that I would need to build my own machine and experiment a little bit on what would work and what would not.  I purchased the parts and some extras so that I could make a machine that had improvements over what was currently on the market.

I did end up building a CPAP machine that worked just fine and I had my sister try it out and she thought it was great.  I took it before the board to see if I could get a patent on it but is very depressing to find out that they could not mass-produce these machines as it would cost them about four times more than what it costs them to make the ones they make now.

Oh well, it was worth a try, right?

I am sure that you are all "excited" to hear what papers I wrote last term.  Seriously though, I do think that some of the papers that I was able to create turned out very well.  These papers were not only well-written, but I did earn one Scholastic award for my writing prowess.

I wrote a couple of arts essays this past term as I was taking a classical art class.  We studied artists in history and everyone wrote a paper detailing who inspired our artistic interests.  For me, it was Leonardo da Vinci as his sketches inspired me to be an artist and an inventor as well.

It took a human resource management class and we will ended up writing one management essay detailing the inefficiencies of the top-down management style currently utilized in corporate America.  It was a great opportunity to do some case studies on larger Fortune 500 companies and analyze their management hierarchy.

Lastly, I had the opportunity to write one longer sociology essay about the lifestyles and social interactions of the Mayan culture with other North American tribes.  It was a great opportunity to elaborate on my experiences from traveling to a Mayan city as well is looking into the mysterious past of the Mayan civilization.

Though the topics varied, each essay helped to develop my thinking and communication skills.  I enjoyed writing each one.

I have been sitting here for three hours now, trying to figure things out.  You see, I have to write a philosophy essay for tomorrow, but I haven’t been able to figure out how to get it started.

Up to this point, I have never had problems working on assignments, but I guess that I must have writer’s block.  I have tried so many things including going out of my hose to get inspired, but so far, nothing has worked.  If I don’t get things figured out soon, I will be in big trouble as the essay is worth 45% of my mark.

Maybe I will go over the essay topics one more time to see if I can find something to inspire me.  If I cannot figure it out soon, I just don’t know what I will do.  Maybe I will go talk to the professor to see if he has any ideas - it can’t hurt.

It does not seem like very long ago that I was preparing to go to college. It also amazes me at how much has changed since then. My granddaughter is preparing now and she has to write an application essay to get in. I certainly don’t remember doing anything of the sort back when I went to school.

In fact, I was well into my first year of college before I had to write my first research paper and now they hand them out to students like candy. I think that when I was in college, there were a lot more exams and classes were shorter. I got my teachers degree in only two years and now it takes four. I do not know if they teach them more or if they learn at a slower pace.

Students nowadays can also opt to write an online essay. Back in my day, we did not even have electric typewriters, let alone a computer with Internet access. I find that everything is so rushed today because of this. We spent so much time in the library and students today tend to spend more time in the computer lab.

When I was going to high school I decided to earn a little bit of extra money by being a tutor.  I never thought this would lead me to offer essay assistance to college students.  I felt ill-equipped, but the customers I had seemed to think that the level I was on was good enough for them.

I had one particular customer that asked me for help with his psychology essay and this scared me half to death because I did not take psychology in high school.  He explained what the essay was to be about and I thought that it did not sound too bad after all.

Another particular customer offered to just buy essay papers for me rather than have me help him write his own.  He said that it would save them a lot of time and that he had no use for learning to write a proper essay anyway.  Though the offer was tempting, I could not do it, as I would just feel too guilty.

While I work on my dissertation at the college I attend, I am also working as a teacher’s assistant for one of my first year professors. I enjoy the job and it can do nothing but help me do a better job on my research and writing.

The professor is helping me with my research proposal and I am certain that she will also help me with my writing, should I need it.

I actually think that I have a great advantage because I have helped her go through other students thesis writing and I know a little bit more what is expected of me and I know more about what to write.

I also enjoy working with her first year students and it makes me glad that I made it through to where I am. Sometimes I feel like I am the happiest college student on this campus. I love what I do and the people that I know.

If there was one thing that I hated in high school more than anything, it was writing book reports. I felt that it was a total waste of time and I didn’t really gain anything by doing them. I never got good marks on them, but then, I never really put a lot of effort into them either.

If I had my choice, I would not have gone on to further my education after high school, but my mother was determined that I was going to go to college, so I really had no choice in the matter. I told her that she could write the stupid admission essay for me and that earned me a smack upside the head.

When I got to college, I found someone who offered to write me a custom essay for a small fee. I took him up on his offer and now, four years into it, I still use his services. I will soon have a degree and I never wrote one single essay while in college. It just goes to show how useless these kinds of things really are.

I am currently working very hard to write the best thesis essay that my professor has ever seen.  I know that I can do it as I have always been a great student and writing just comes to me naturally.  In fact, being a writer would have been my second choice of careers if I was not doing this.

Before I started working on my dissertation, I made a little bit of extra money by tutoring young students who are just entering college and were having a tough time being away from home for the very first time.  I made some great friends and they made me see how grateful I was that I never had problems in school.

A few of the students that I tutored, offered to pay me a lot of money if I would just write them some custom term papers.  I knew I couldn’t do this as my conscience would bother me for the rest of my life.  I wish I could’ve helped the more but I feel that helping them to help themselves, was in the end, the best that I could do for them.

My daughter just entered her first year of college and it brought me back to the time that I went to college. Through my daughter, I was able to relive the feeling of being excited about being on my own, about meeting new people and even about the coursework that would be involved.

The first week she came home with a list of the essays that she was going to have to do for her classes, she seemed a little bummed, but I assured her that it would not be as bad as it seemed. After all, if I made it through college, she certainly would.

It did not take her long before she had essay writing down to an art form and now she has a little bit of free time to go out and enjoy those new friends that she is making. She is really enjoying the experience and I hope that she comes out of it with as fond of memories as I did.