"When the water delivery guy comes, yell 'Dad, the water is here!' and of course nobody will respond, but you have to pretend as if there was a man at home sleeping in the bedroom," Mom warned me before going to work on a summer day two years ago. I followed her words when the delivery came, mumbling "Never mind, Dad, you must be sleeping. I'll take care of it." as I received only silence after calling Daddy, because...

79. Required Writing Courses “You are one of the strongest writers in the senior class.” I read this comment from my AP Literature teacher on our first major paper of the year, and I was surprised. I sit with a class of the brightest students, yet she commented that I am one of the strongest writers. But am I? The word “essay” had been equivalent to torture to me since I was a middle school student in China. Needless to say...