I clearly remembered my first year experience creative writing class. It was a required six-credit intensive writing course and I was not much of a writer. Yet, Dr Tingle saw right through my writing and was determined to show me my own potential. Dr Jacob K Tingle The campus of Trinity University is intentionally designed for different paths to cross. Dr Jacob K Tingle and I are one of those paths. Though not new to life’s surprises, I could never guess such a dynamic professor and avid sports fan would be able to teach and inspire me so much during my time at Trinity University. His many nudges out of my comfort zone are exactly the reasons I got to challenge my limitations and experience new things. Dr Tingle has always been a good listener and dedicated teacher. Once, while working on my final paper, I told him I wanted to describe this minuscule detail about pulling out the drawer of a heavy and expensive table, and he actually went through the trouble of Googling the most suitable existing table just so I could satisfy my punctiliousness. Dr Tingle in class In the end, I graduated from the writing course with an honourable A, announced as Winner of the FYE Writing Contest, and became his Peer Tutor for the following year’s FYE Creative Genius class, all thanks to Dr Tingle’s tireless encouragement. I gained increasing respect for Dr Tingle as I worked as his peer tutor. He treated me as an equal coworker, meaning, he was attentive and took my opinions seriously. If there is anything I could do to help this gentleman happier with his job if he hasn’t already, I will. I thought I had no more chances to be Dr Tingle’s student again, as his main profession was in sports and I hardly kept up with my daily steps goal. That was until my sophomore year when he invited me to take his one-credit Sports Philanthropy course. He thought I might enjoy the content as I was passionate about volunteering and social …
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