Analysis: A Stroll Down Memory Lane

A Stroll Down Memory Lane When I was much younger and in grade school, I remember being an outcast being put to the side due to my reading comprehension and writing disability, which is called dyslexia. I would struggle to keep up with the rest of the class in reading so I was always a level or so behind. I would write my words backwards and upside down and the only way to read it was to put it up to a mirror. It would then lead to years in school and work to really build my ability and nerves to get me to where I am now in both reading comprehension and writing ability.
As I approached my first few years in grade school, I remember it seeming like I was an Ant on a picnic table; everything seeming so big and scary. I grabbed ahold of moms …show more content…
Through my four years at Landrum High School, I had developed my reading and writing comprehension so much that I was passing all my classes with A’s and B’s and a couple of C’s here and there. When I graduated high school I finished in the top half of my class with a GPA of 3.69. I also worked my way up to getting scholarships to attend Spartanburg Methodist College where I graduated and then transferred to the University of South Carolina Upstate where I am currently attending. Going into my first two years of college I had realized that high school did not prepare me for college at all. My professor for both English classes would look over my papers and mark every little thing wrong. In the end of grading of my papers I would end up with a low grade. Therefore, it was difficult to do a good job on my papers because coming straight from high school I was used to my teachers just grading the papers on more of the format instead of the errors. When i graduated Spartanburg Methodist College and transferred to the University of South Carolina Upstate I came to the fact that I had to retake both English classes. In my first semester at Upstate I started out in English 102 and in that class my professor