问题：
A time I felt most proud of myself
答案：
I had never felt so proud of myself when I was a twelfth-grader. In the years before, I had been floundering through endless rote learning and overwhelming homework. Privately, I couldn’t stand the idea of whiling one more day like this. Yet in those days it would kill me to label myself as a rebellious student. So, drifting with the current was always the best and safest policy for me. Then came our new English teacher. I would like to draw an analogy between him and the mentor of a herd of lost souls. In his first class, he startled us by declaring that the time had come for the conversion of our learning from passive to autonomous. He demanded that each student make a personalized action plan for the National College Entrance Exam. This had never happened before. Many students groaned and wouldn’t take his request literally. Personally, exhausted from the boring lecture-homework routines, I decided to give this idea a go. After all, it wouldn’t hurt much to change a little in return for the likelihood of a better situation. In his second lecture, he came to collect our plans. Naturally, no students produced their plans as he asked one by one. I observed he frowned solemnly and his face darkled with discontent. The air was dripping with suffocating silence. He was approaching my seat. My heartbeat sped up, and I was fiercely at war with myself. To present my plan or not to, that was the question. Magically, for the first time, the positive side of me took the upper hand. I gave him my plan. “Alas! I’ve given the axe to the old good me. I’m making a bad rebellious girl out of me”, I sighed to myself. “Effective planning is the staple of efficient study”, he regained composure quickly, “A wise you won’t stand the idea of drifting blindly, not knowing where you are and will be all along. A good plan serves as the best beacon of your voyage in the ocean of learning. Congratulations, plan makers! You will feel proud of yourself someday in time to come”. Over time, I do make a lot out of making minor or major plans. Today, dripping with pride and gratitude, I find I made the best choice ever and it did set a date for the harvests I have been reaping so far. Without that far-reaching change along the way, as I bet, I would have been floundering in the boundless ocean of learning as ever.