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Jacquie Surgenor Gaglione Jacquie Surgenor Gaglione

Asking for Help is a Gift.

A couple of weeks ago, I was mindlessly scrolling through my Facebook feed when a friend’s post caught my eye(I will call him, Peter - not his real name, but easier than constantly writing “my friend”).

Peter’s post read:

Ugh. Already late handing in an assignment and I just can’t get my fire lit. Help!

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Jacquie Surgenor Gaglione Jacquie Surgenor Gaglione

Overcoming Fear

It’s nearing the end of the first week of my Academic Writing and Critical Thinking course and I am starting to feel better about it.

The course started Monday and looking back at my text messages from that day, I can pull out a common theme that could best be summarized as “Crap. What did I sign up for?

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