I have a unique relationship with one of my college professors. She happens to be my father’s sister and we are very close. When I decided on taking her class, I knew that I was going to have to work extra hard on the research papers that she assigned because she was going to expect a lot more out of me than she would the rest of the class.

She was, in total, going to assign us three term papers to complete for her and I decided that I would ask her for advice on where to find the best information and what exactly it was that she expected. I knew it wasn’t completely fair to be using who I know instead of what I know, but I will do whatever it takes to get an advantage.

She told me to do what she had asked in class when I wrote my first termpaper. If I needed more help after this, she would be willing to offer it to me. This made sense and it ended up that I was too hard on myself, because I did fine on my own and I ended up doing really well in the class.