Assumptions Case
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The best person that knows you is yourself
Throughout my life people often assumed that I wont be able to pass my exams because i never seemed to pay attention in class or wouldnt socialized myself with other classmates. Some people thought I wasnt able to handle the assignments that were given to me because I would often go in a daze whenever the professor would explain the assignment. However, I am a student that takes my assignments serious and puts the effect that is required even though I had a job after school played sports and did community service.
People said I wont be able to pass my exams because I often had my head down on the desk and didnt look motivated to be in the classroom whenever my professor was teaching. The thought that I wasnt paying attention was considered because I would text on my phone during class. I would have moments where I would just go in a daze and start staring out the window. I would have other assignments on my desk for my next class while the professor was teaching. In the short passage “The Joy of Reading and Writing: Superman and Me” by Sherman Alexie quotes “We were Indian children who were expected to be stupid”, which means people assumed she wouldnt be intelligent because of her nationality.
Most of the class was out-spoken to one another, and I was always the one to be anti-social and not share my ideas with others. People think I have an attitude because I was always the quiet type of person. “In moments of agony, I envied my fellow-slaves for their stupidity”, a quote from Frederick Douglass in the short passage “Learning to read and write” meant that
sometimes he envies the slaves who are uneducated enough to be happy with their lot. The fact that Douglass wants to improve himself makes it all the more painful not to be able to do so.
I was never the student to pay attention in class; however I still understood what the lesson was about. I had the responsibility of taking care of my little sister after I came home from work with a long day of school made me tired. I would often rest my head on the desk because I was lacking sleep throughout the night. I would always have my phone out in class to write down the important notes my professor would say instead of writing on pen and paper which can be lost. I did most of my studying at home so I always knew what the chapter was about for class the next day. I sometimes would have to put aside my school work to make sure that my sister had dinner and help her with homework since that was part of my responsibility.
“I did what I had to do to get by, and I did it with half a mind”; quoted by Mike Rose from the short passage “I Just Wanna Be Average” which means even though he wasnt the type of student to pay attention in class he made sure that his work was