Personal Narrative: A Career In Summer Schools

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Before I had ever taken an ordinary public education class - as I had been homeschooled all my life until I took dual enrollment and then college – and realized some of the inherent joys of taking classes, for whatever reason I had formed a negative perception of ‘summer school’. Perchance it was owed to the myriad of movies I had watched growing up, or maybe the varying books I had read in which summer school was often a punishment for some misdemeanor or failing to meet a certain standard. Never in those stories was summer school anything to be eager for.
However, similarly, never in my life had I considered summer classes as a means of progressing my education beyond a certain standard.
Within the past year, I have time and again discovered that Architecture is all about going beyond. …show more content…
Even from I was young and clutching primary colored blocks in chubby fists my mind was never in vacillation as to what I wanted to do. My heart always knew, though my lips could not always say. This is as true as it is clichéd, I suppose. Architecture was as close as I came to a dream. I was always a very practical child, and mystifying as this is, it was entirely because I had a whimsical imagination. If I could think it, no matter how crazy, why could I not just as easily make it a reality? Thus I often did, birthing endearing amalgamations of cardboard, toilet paper rolls, colored pape,r and string that overflowed from numberless nooks and

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