Prof Stein

I knew her as Professor Stein and I hated her. Well, the truth is, I didn’t hate her, I just hated everything she stood for. Prof. Stein was a college professor and one of the courses she taught was called “Tools For Academic Success”. The small community college I attended in the early 1990s required that course, which was worth all of one credit, to be taken by all students before the end of their sophomore year. I had resisted it as long as I could and by the end of my sophomore year (which was actually a year and a half, as I didn’t take a full course load), I had built up a substantial quantity of resentment toward the school for placing this hurdle in my path to academic glory.