NameInstructor CourseDate The Night I decided to be badI grew up in Park Slope, Brooklyn, in New York City. Most of my neighbors did not value education as much as my parents did. My family was very conservative. When I was 13, they sent me to a catholic high school to prevent me from being negatively influenced by the other children in my neighborhood. I therefore missed most of the “fun” that my friend in other high schools would have such as drinking alcohol and earning my own money from taking part-time work. I was therefore impatient to finish high school and join college where I could be in control of my own life. At that time, home felt like prison, and I could not wait to be free. On my first night in college, my roommate, his two friends and I left for the night club. The only thing that ran in my mind was that, I was going to taste alcohol for the first time and become a man. I did not know that I was also going to do marijuana. At the club, we danced to loud music with and bought a lot of beer and