Undergraduate / Tuesdays with Morrie written by Mitch Albom is one of my favorite books - College of Art and Science [8]

Following your advice, I removed some part of the essay and added something upbeat instead.

The first time when I read Tuesdays with Morrie was on a night before my junior's finals. At that time, I was tired of the endless and meaningless school life. I used to be passionate with study in junior middle school when curriculums were interesting, schoolwork reasonable, and schedule flexible. However, everything changed in high school. Because of the heavy schoolwork, I gradually became a study machine. I knew nothing but input, textbooks and exams, and output, scores and grades.

That night, I aimlessly looked through the books on the shelves of the library. Out of nowhere, Mitch's book attracted me. In the book, Mitch Albom tells the story of a real experience between his old professor, Morrie and him. Amazingly, when I read the book, it's like a life-long conversation with Morrie. He shows me how to deal with love, fear, family, emotions, money, culture, the aging and the death. Amongst them, Morris's opinion on culture impresses me most. He tells me not to believe the misleading illusions in our culture but try to create my own subculture.

I was shocked when I realized what he told me is. Everybody, including me, truly has long been affected by our surrounding culture for what we value and how we think: like people without jobs might believe that society has discarded them, while the rest worry about losing theirs.

I realized that it's the education culture that brainwashed me and took all my happiness away. Though can't run out of it, following Morrie's instruction, I started to create my own culture to fight against it. Gradually, I find a balance between study and entertainment, begin read books I liked instead of assigned, and joined club I interested in. It's Morrie who helped me to renew my sense of culture and find my life back.

Undergraduate / Tuesdays with Morrie written by Mitch Albom is one of my favorite books - College of Art and Science [8]

Thanks for your advice. But I think I don't I showed the negative side of myself to the administrator. Actually, there are two transitions in the essay. First one is a bad one, motivated by the blind acceptance of pop culture. The second one, however, the most important one, is a good one, using the wisdom and knowledge I learned from Morrie. In the first transition, I was trapped by illusions made by pop culture and lost my true self. But the second one disillusioned me(let me realized Pop culture is all wrong). By doing that I gradually refind myself and established my own culture( maybe as abstract as it seemed but it's true, What I value and How I think, the person I should be or the person I want to meet)

Undergraduate / Tuesdays with Morrie written by Mitch Albom is one of my favorite books - College of Art and Science [8]

Yeah, I see my problem. And actually, I have revised it and the one I put above is unpolished.

Here is the polished one.

Though fighting with ALS, Professor Morrie Schwartz passed on all his knowledge and wisdom to the public through the book Tuesdays with Morrie compiled and written by his favorite student, Mitch Ablom.

A sociology professor at Brandeis University, Morrie had his own sense of society and culture. As he said, we have long been determined by our society for what we value and how we think.

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