What Was the Most Important Thing I learned in Boot Camp?

Boot Camp... That packet was pretty intense for our first week or so of English. However, there were some pretty useful points of knowledge I gained from it. The most important thing I learned had to be getting myself out of the standard "5 paragraph essay" phase of my life. I'm still struggling to fully break free and create my own writing style, but boot camp really has changed my opinion on the rules and regulations of writing essays for English. I feel like with practice and organization, one is able to have fun with their writing, yet still convey their point efficiently. 5 paragraph essays are so boring to read sometimes. I often used to wonder why English teachers ever even put up with it. After all, who wants to read of the roles women played in tribal societies 250 times? ...Not me! If everyone was able to use this boot camp to enhance their writing skills, standard papers for not only english, but history and science, could be much more enjoyable! Overall, Boot Camp taught me that the rules of English don't have to be rules. You are able to break them, with a purpose of course. Although boot camp has also given me new ideas for structure and transitions, it has encouraged me to think outside the "high school english" box, and develop my own sense of writing!