While Catalina can be at times a stressful environment, King's experience here can only be attributed to her own insecurities. Catalina is an incredibly strong academic school and the faculty here do everything in their power to help students do well. King obviously didn't have the natural ability or drive to succeed that is needed to flourish here, as shown by the fact that the writing in this book would not have recieved a passing grade in my freshman english class.