Ben, this reads like a movie from Nickelodeon, the children's channel. Those kinds of awkward teens scenes are right up their alley.

My worst memory about a writing assignment happened in the 11 grade. The best teacher in the entire school was also the track coach and he taught International Relations. One night I caught fire on an essay assignment. I did my research and put in an all nighter getting it as perfect as I could and I was proud of it. A few days later, on the way to a track meet, the teacher/coach took me to the back of the bus and told me that he knew that I had plagiarized the essay. He said, "I couldn't have written an essay that good. Where did you get it?” I graduated from Creswell High School with him believing that I had plagiarized the essay.

At the time, I was too timid to even challenge him. I just denied it and let it go. Looking back, what I should have done was to challenge him, show him my notes, go over each point I made and show him line by line that I wrote it- but I was very shy.

Oddly, performing music live was always easy. I am never shy in front of a crowd no matter how big as long as I am singing. However, if I had to give a speech, I would rather jump out of the second floor building because at least I might survive that.

"Imagination is more important than knowledge." - Albert Einstein