During my junior year of High School I was in an Honors English class taught by a woman in her 70s or possibly her 80s, and one of the ongoing assignments was a series of weekly journal entries to get us to write regularly. She let us write about whatever we wanted - we just needed to turn in an entry every week.
Unfortunately I was a deeply cringe teenager who was obsessed with Metal Gear Solid, and I am also autistic. I had spent a couple years being incredibly hyped and excited for MGS4 and around that time I had finally gotten a PS3. At least half of my journal entries were me writing extremely detailed summaries of everything that was happening in MGS4 as I played through it.
At the end of the semester when I got the entries I'd submitted back, I'd gotten a good grade and the teacher left a note on it saying she "enjoyed learning all about Metal Gear Solid 4". Now, as a 30 year old, I am so embarrassed. I forced this poor teacher to learn about Vamp, Raiden's trauma and cybernetic ninja combat skils, nanomachines, Old Snake, Otacon, and whatever else was going on in Hideo Kojima's brain.
