Mitchell Jean-Louis
Writing 101

I Just Wanna Be Average

In “I Just Wanna Be Average” by Mike Rose says, “students will float to the mark you set” (164). Also, He discusses his four years of high school. He expresses his failure during school and his success in the story. How a highly successful teacher supported and encourage Rose to stay consist in school.
My High School years, I had to take a 4 long year, 720 day journey in High School. It was a Roller coaster ride with up’s and down’s as I begun with my freshmen year. I went to school without knowing the techniques to maintain a GPA or balance school work and activities. That didn’t stop me I was Mr. popular guy, the man everybody wanted to know; I was the man. My grades were not good; the teachers thought I was going to be on a 5 year plan. I was happy to have wonderful teachers who actually cared enough to help me. But as Rose explained “the teacher had no idea on how to engage the imaginations of us kids who were scuttling along at the bottom of the pond” (185) . The most important part of education is having someone who can teach you and help you understand as well as you possibly can. While I was working on my grades, I wanted to play on the basketball team. That was my dream. I wanted to hear the crowd cheering my name, and the faces of our opponents when they lose. I wanted to be a part of that but I didn’t have the grades therefore that moment I want set a goal that would change my life and focus.
A year passed by and unto my sophomore year I went. I started to take my school work serious and learning that “every step you take leads to success” from an article in the Boston Globe. That day was foggy and misty, with a grey site like a sad look but I was ready for school anyway. I felt a change and a feeling that meant that thing are now serious.
But it wasn’t, I started to skip school and I got