Personal Narrative: I Am In College

It happened all through-out college. I had always heard stories about body-shaming with overweight individuals, but I never thought that it would happen to myself or the millions of other young women on college campuses.

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I have been in avid since my freshman year of high school and I can honestly say it has really changed my view of college.My freshman year of high school I wasn't even sure I wanted to go to college being that no one in my family went to college I was slightly discouraged.Through avid I learned about college and how it could really change my future.Avid helped me learn organizational skills and study skills that I didnt have before.We learned about taking cornell notes and using our binders as part of our organizational techniques.By becoming more organized I was able to see my grades drastically improve as well.Another concept AVID introduced was the use of planners of course before hand I knew what a planner was but I never really thought

The droplets of rain emerge from the towering clouds as I step onto the vibrant green grass for the first time. I lock eyes with the monstrous building and tilt my head back until I have reached the roof. There I was. A stick-like, puny, first year college student looking at my home for the next four years. Yet I can't manage to take a second step. I stand there, staring at the giant brick block and lift my classic yellow rain jacket hood up over my impressively soft chocolate hair, protecting it from the harm of the rain. Four years of Ireland weather lays ahead of me. Four years of bunk beds in dorms. Four years of competing for the number one student. For years of awkward parties and tests. Four years until I'm out.

The advice that changed my life was from my boss. I had been out of high school a couple of years, and, at the time, was working full time at a store in the mall. College had always been on the horizon for me, just barely out of reach. However, when I start to think back, I see what little effort I put in to try to reach college. Every time someone asked if I planned on going, I would say yes, I just needed to save up the money, brush up on a few subjects, and get my life in order. In truth though, I was just scared of going back to school. I had not done well in high school and had in fact dropped out. So, even if I had wanted to go to school I would need to take the GED test, and that was something I was not prepared to do. So month after

1. What experience do you like talking about the most? What has been the most interesting, intriguing, and exciting part of your life- why, and what did you learn from it?

I am attending college, so that I will be able to learn more about my major and also to explore my options. While in high school, I had many reasons and people that motivated me to enroll into college, including my mom, my guidance counselors, and research on what I want to be later on in life. Although I was already going to apply for college, I heard a lot of good things about it from a few of my friends, on how college really makes you a stronger and more independent person. In the past few years, I’ve met quite a few people who have graduated high school and decided not to attend any college, and sooner or later I hear about how upset they are that they did not attend and how they have no idea what to do with their life. I did not want

I remember being a little girl and hiding behind my mom when someone came up to me to say hello; I used to be so nervous to even meet their eyes. At our family get-togethers, for Christmas and New Years Day, my family attempted to start conversations I would politely smile and hide behind my closest parent. I remember her telling me “It’s okay to say Hi to the people I talk to, just do not talk to strangers.” I tried to listen to her and follow her instructions but every time I would try chickened out.

My college education has helped prepare me for this position. Through out my education, I had to take a few Middle School Methods classes. During these classes, we were asked to create lesson plans and then teach them to Middle School students. We also learned about the Common Core State Standards for Middle School as well as their developmental processes. A second experience that has prepared me to teach Middle School was my special education student teaching. During this caseload, I had four sixth grade boys that I worked very closely with. I went to their classroom and listened to the lessons that were being taught and then I worked with them in a small group setting to complete the task at hand. By being able to listen to the lessons

Many different people go to college for many different reasons, some people wanting to become doctors or lawyers, others in sports or sometimes just for fun. When thinking more personally I feel like college for me is to find myself. Somewhere where I can become physically and emotionally ready to become an adult and be able to stabilize myself.

Most employers will not want to hire “college kids” fresh from college. It is all about experience: how much experience one has or how little experience one has. Most employers are looking for someone who already knows what they are doing, not someone who has to be taught everything. Now, there are few employers who prefer people without experience because they can be molded. Those kind of employers do not want someone with experience because they do things differently. For example, I work at Subway. My boss would rather hire new people because he can shape them into what he wants. We have had two people who worked at previous Subways, and it is harder to train them in what he likes versus what they were taught. It confuses

I do not doubt that I am prepared for college I have taken several AP and dual-enrollment classes so, unlike other kids, I do not fear the course load or even the transition into college. I fear to face the same problems that black students often face in higher education. Black students often face marginalization and deal with negative stereotypes alongside criticism from peers and educators. Learning can become a chore when dealing with negativity every day. I have learned in my 17 years that anger will not solve the problem nor will tears. In the past, I have joined clubs whose main goal is to increase equity: club alpha, NAACP, VHS Equity team. I have been involved with club Alpha since I was in my freshmen year of high-school students of

I have resided in Maryland for a large portion of my life and as a result of me living in Maryland for so long I had decided to apply to a University within another state to broaden my horizons, to test myself by being put within a situation or environment where I am not completely comfortable or familiar within but learn to change and adapt to such situations. I, just as any human had my own troubles and problems in my endeavors to quickly adapt and change to such a huge change in surroundings and difficulty with work. For the majority of my freshman year at George Mason I did well enough to adapt and change to many situations but I clearly had some mistakes, One was clearly a class that I had failed. I had felt completely broken and lost

This time, my dad got the house with us so it is us three together, and my dog of course. At first we saw each other a lot, but now they both work until late at night and I work and go to school, so we barely see each other anymore. We are lucky if we get to have a family dinner now. Although we may not see each other a lot, I am so glad to be a family again and have a nice house. My brother and father work very hard to pay for this house. If I wasn’t in college I would be right along with them paying for it. But for now I will work part time and go to full-time school. But when the time comes that I can get a full-time job and not worry about college I will be paying

I’m in college. To the average person, this seems like an average sentence, but to me, this means everything. I’m the first person in my family to do this. I didn’t have anyone to ask about admissions. I didn’t even have support to help me finish high school. So many of the things that the average child would have the guidance of a parent for, I didn’t have. I did things on my own. Even when it came to doing my reading homework in first grade, my mom couldn’t help me because she couldn’t read English. Nonetheless, mine isn’t a story of despair or defeat. If anything, the simple sentence “I’m in college” is an absolute achievement. All of the hardships I went through didn’t leave me as a C- on a teacher’s desk, or a foster child bounced around