Week 4 Assignment 2/6

It was difficult trying to keep my paper within the word limit since I had plenyty to say about my topic, but it helped that I didn't start eliminating certain features until the entire essay was written. I was then able to get rid of or combine sentences to make it more concise. The whole editing process helped immensely along with the weekly writing assignments. I was able to write my paper with relative ease since I already had an outline and some advice from my peers.

My parents were the proactive type. They took all the regret of not furthering their own education after high school and focused it into preparing me to be a straight-A student. I was close, but the occasional B, sometimes even a C, would slip through. My parents were also the strict type. They didn't like Bs or Cs slipping through, so, naturally, I spent a lot of time grounded as a kid (I got in trouble for a lot of other stuff, but that's another story). The only thing I was allowed to do whenever I got bored of being shut in the guest room for a week was read, and I got bored a lot. So, I read and read. I started reading things that were beyond my middle school understanding. I was grounded so much, though, that I had nothing else to read after a while, so I became accustomed to reading more difficult books. I read authors like Kurt Vonnegut, Charles Bukowski, and John Steinbeck since they were what my parents read. Admittedly, they were pretty dry reads for my young interest, but I re-read them anyways and because of that I had a much easier time transitioning to high school and college-level reading. I felt more confident in my reading as well as writing, and that I had somewhat of an advantage among my classmates.