One of the biggest challenges I have encountered in dual enrollment is learning to write about myself; in every English lesson before this one, we were never supposed to write about ourselves or our experiences, the words “I” or “me” were taboo. On top of my lack of experience writing about myself, I didn't even know myself as well as I thought I did: I had no idea what I was passionate about. The beauty of seeing my progress in writing throughout this year is seen in the personal development that has occurred between these papers. When we were assigned personal narrative at the beginning of English 111 I had no idea what to write. In English 112, when we were assigned a multi-genre discussion about something, I immediately knew I would write about my one passion: fire and rescue. The whole project was me, my experiences and my passion. I looked at both sides of the issue and tried to remove my bias of being a woman involved in fire and rescue and found that the FDNY may have hired women who had not passed the original physical test, but the test physicist himself had impractical tasks that someone with no fire experience wouldn't do