blog 1....

The best piece of writing that i have done was written my first semester of college. We were told to write a paper about and big turning point in your life, or a moment close to you. So i thought about it for a long time, and the one that stood out the most most my senior year when my best friend was on the edge of graduation and how we got him through together. As our senior year died down we were all getting ready to start the newest chapters in our novels of life, and it was one of the hardest times of my life.

My best friend Matt was the big man on campus you might say, and he was a star athlete. The only thing that would hold him back would be his grades. All through high school i was there to help him, or with the little school environment teachers knew him and would just ease him by with a little help from our basketball coach. After our senior year basketball season the favors stopped happen for him, and he really started to slip. I was there the whole time to help him with our class (we had an identical schedule) again thanks to the school board for that! But with all my college looking and homework i couldn't help him all the time, and his grades were still on the decline. A week before school was out Matt was told that he needed to get a 86% on our English final or he would fail and not get to walk. We studied every night for a week to get ready for this test. Matt got a 85% and the teacher would not bump it up one percent, so i didn't get to walk beside my best friend on the big day. He eventually got his diploma taking a summer class.

The way i went at the paper was just write how i felt at the time, and how i felt now. I went home and talked to Matt AND the English teacher that he failed. i just did a lot of inner research and wrote what i felt.