I wouldn't say I'm a good writer and I don't even like reading books. During my years in school I became literate in these two categories. I was not and still am not interested in writing or reading books in my spare time. The only thing I wrote was for school. Writing simply doesn't interest me, and the only reading I do outside of class is reading about sports in magazines, or reading the news, or looking at web pages. I only read a couple of books on my own, 95% of all the books I read were for school. The reason I don't write outside of class is probably attributed to the fact that I am a very impatient person and have a short attention span. I have no interest in writing and reading, so when I sit down to write something for school other things happening around me grab my attention instead of reading or writing. I know people will try to give me the solution of going to a room with no music, phone, TV, or anything else distracting. But eventually I'll get so bored and impatient that I'll leave it alone and go do something else, the same goes for reading. Books take too long to finish. I think movies are a better way to convey the story, because instead of trying to visualize the setting and trying to figure out what the author is trying to say, you can see exactly what the setting should look like and you witness exactly that which is. happening in a movie. So there's no speculation about what was happening in the story. Additionally, movies take much less time to watch than books do to read. There are more types of literacy than reading and writing. I'm probably more computer-literate than writing-savvy. The reason I'm more computer literate... middle of paper... basically teaches you how to use Microsoft Word, Excel, Access, and Power Point. In my junior and senior year I took Cisco courses where you were taught how to set up computer networks. It also gave me the opportunity to get a networking certification, but I didn't take the test. The way I see it, college is a place where you can decide what you want to become in life. The only part my past literacy experience will affect me is where I start from. For example, if I had a bad TASP score in the math section, I might be advised to take a remedial course in math, but that's where I'll start. It's up to me to see what I want to do. I have the option of pursuing a math major or a major that has nothing to do with math. Now that I know my strengths, I can use them to develop my learning skills. I can also use them to get rid of my weakness.