Personal Narrative: Frosh Week

“I sat down next to my brother, Dan, on the couch and got on my laptop. He started to look at my laptop and asked what I was doing with a smirk on his face. It was obvious that he knew what I was doing so I ignored him. My homework was to type a 5 paragraph essay on what we did over the summer. As I began to write, my laptop started to glitch. It kept happening over and over as I continued to type.

I first worked for Summer at Saints last year, as a volunteer unsure of what this experience would entail. Between the first drop-off and the final pick-up, I was quickly impressed, and to some extent intimidated, by its ability to transform. The timid became unafraid, the wild became calm and the rancorous became kind. The experiences of being a volunteer, and seeing these children mature, even in the smallest ways, has been the most rewarding experience at Summer at Saints.

When we came back from spring break i was on the baseball team this is a big surprise because surprise because i am bad at the game. When our first practice came around we were talking about fundamentals of the game. When i was listening i was confused because he wasn't making sense nor was he giving us the right information. One example is when you dip you shoulder and hit a pop up you dip your back shoulder and he said you dip your front shoulder.

At Shawnee Community College there is a celebration called Fall Fest on their main campus every year to celebrate the beginning of fall. What I expected was that there would be a ton of fun activities to take part in. As soon as I made it outside I realized that I was completely wrong. The heat of the day did not make being bored and outside much better. There wasn’t much to do, which made trying to enjoy myself quite a difficult task. While I was at Fall Fest I did three things, I went and took pictures with props, played corn hole, and ate some food. The Fall Fest was not as fun as the emails and announcements made it out to be, so I couldn’t care less if Shawnee kept Fall

I usually stick to my daily routine, but attending a new school has motivated me to try new things and to be open to different experiences and opportunities. I am not really an outdoorsy person, but sometimes I like to go biking and running on my free time. I am hoping to gain more experience with nature as we will be in Lake Placid, Florida. I also hope to gain friendships that will help ease the final stage of my transfer process. It will be nice to see a familiar face in a few of my classes come the first week of school. Being in friend groups helps ease the social awkwardness that comes with being referred to as “the new kid”. I really look forward to my time at FIU and I hope that Panther Camp can kick start that excitement for

Week one has passed by quickly! I think this week was very successful and I can say that I have learned many new things. This week has been an experience for me learning things about the business world. I am not a business major so I was not expecting to take these classes. I was assigned them, but have found them very beneficial. As I read through the first couple of chapters I read things I had heard before. This was a good thing that I could put the information with the terms I had heard previously.

Going into the fall 2014 semester, my family was not in a good place financially, and I was not mentally. Our income had been reduced, meaning I had to step up to help my family. This caused my already weakened mental state to become even more strained and took a toll on me physically. I was not able to concentrate on anything at school, work, and home, it was almost in a blur. When I resigned from the fall 2014 semester, I knew it was something that was needed to make sure I stayed healthy, mentally and physically. Two years went by and I found myself in a better place. Going into the fall 2016 semester, I found the perfect balance between studying, work, and home life. In the end I exceeded all the expectations I had set for myself in every

In 2014 I began attending Chase High School. I would always joke about how I would be the one to get lost and hide in a locker until three o’clock but when the first day rolled around I wasn’t nervous because I knew most of the seniors and I was on the volleyball team. I loved my freshmen schedule, I had classes with all of my friends, I liked most of my teachers and best of all I had first lunch. Volleyball season was starting off decent, we hadn’t won any games but we were having fun and I was a starter. After about three games into the season the JV team was practicing one day in the AUX gym and that is when my volleyball season took a turn for the worst. We were practicing our hitting lines and it was my turn to hit, the setter set me up but they pushed the ball too far back and

Frosh week is supposed to be a time of making new connections. Imagine yourself skipping around campus arms

After being in the circles for quite some time and meeting a few other sophomores I started to feel a little better about the weekend ahead of me. We were then escorted to an auditorium doing these cheers the whole way there were we had the opening ceremony and were put in our groups. These people whom I still keep up with today became my partners through the entire weekend and everything I experienced was shared with them. I was so grateful that our group members were compatible. After our barriers were broken down we were all eager to get the most out of this weekend that we possibly

During Spelman’s admitted student weekend, SpelBound, my mother still was not convinced that Spelman was truly the school for me. On Sunday morning, I met her and my father at Sister’s Chapel for morning worship service on campus. Once the service was over, my mom knew that God was within Spelman College.

I am going to tell you a little bit of what I did this summer. School just got out and the real work begun, I started work on the first day of summer. I also played in a golf league in Gregory this summer with my dad.

Starting off the big buddy class I had high expectations but I didn’t know on exactly what. Maddie and I thought of icebreakers that weren’t so commonly used to get them engaged. When working with the freshman at our first meeting I was shockingly surprised that it went pretty good. I expected the group to be more quiet because it was a new group to them and us as Big Buddies. Two freshman in our group Jayla and Rhea are close friends so they were very open and talkative. As for Fin and Elena they didn’t know each other and Jayla and Rhea also didn’t know Elena and Fin. At our second meeting with the freshmen we all met Luis but we were missing Rhea. For the second meeting I expected the group to be more comfortable and again they shocked me.

My time in High School was made difficult from the constant strife and conflict between my parents. This made my home an unstable environment not fitted for learning or growing as an individual. As I got older and closer to graduating High-School, I began to find my own voice with the help of my mentor Rahn Fleming, which occurred at the end of my junior year. As a result, I came in control of my life and the constant feuding started to die down. No longer did I have to worry about the next scheduled court date, or the next time I would come home wondering what may await. I felt like I was always walking on broken glass for the longest of time throughout my life, until I began to voice myself and what I wanted. My parents came to realize this

Since the start of the semster I have learned many different things about myself and how I can become a better student all around. Summer classes can fly by fast and doesn’t feel like a real semester. That it is just to get credit and move on to the next semester. That was not the case for me this summer semester because I needed to think about the rest of my college career. This summer semester is my first one coming back from academic suspension and I took last semester at South Plains College and Tarrant County College. I did really well making a 3.00 GPA overall and am most likely going to make a 3.5 this semester. This will be a huge boost to my overall GPA. The point is am at the point where I am ready to graduate and will try my hardest to get the best grades I can. I really just changed my mindset towards college and the way I prepare for tests and studying.