On college memories
In college, I wrote a pretty good history essay about Hawaii becoming part of the U.S. The premise of the essay was to pick one year in history and focus on that time. I had a Hawaiian dorm neighbor who helped me with it.
The second-semester part of the course, I tried to write in my final essay about “Vietnamization,” basically how the U.S. got out of the war. The teaching assistant did not like it.
I appealed the grade to the department chair in history, but he almost immediately sided with the T.A.