Rumblings from the Past

More like ramblings, maybe.

Well, school officially started today, but my first on campus class is tomorrow night, so I was looking through my backpack today to make sure I had pencils and pens and all that jazz. I did, but that's beside the point. There were a few folders in there from my last semester at San Jose State.... the good old days.

My English professor was one of my favorite professors that I've ever had. I really enjoy writing, and he was just a good guy. He was a very strict grader, however. He said he VERY rarely gave away perfect scores. In fact, most of my essays have just below a perfect score. He would write a plethora of comments at the end, none of them negative, and then still not give me a perfect score. I was never angry about this, but it made it all the more awesome the few times I DID get a perfect score.

This essay is one of those times.

The assignment was to use a semicolon sentence and all the conjunction words in one essay, and it could be about anything we wanted. Here's mine:

As she soared through the air, she felt exhilarated, just as all the other times; however, she still carried the burden. Even though day in and day out, she saved lives, it was not a life she would have chosen for herself. "When I'm not saving people," she thought to herself, "I feel lazy. Yet while I reminisce about my life before the incident, I'm filled with longing for those simpler times. If I could take that day back, I would." Because she had been such a carefree child, she had thought nothing of wandering off on her own, for she knew nothing of the dangers of the world, and she thought she would always be safe. But coming across the chemical spill had changed her. Until then, she had just been a normal child, though maybe a little more innocent than most, and now she was what you might call a superhero, or what some people might call a freak of nature. Although she looked normal, she possessed great powers that she used in an attempt to rid her city of crime. After each rescue, she neither felt happy, not did she feel sad. She always left her citizens in silence once they were safe, since revealing her true feelings about her powers would only make them look down on her. "So," she thought, "I must always save them, but no one can ever really save me."

That one earned me a perfect score from the ever-elusive Professor Lore. Muahaha.