Personal Narrative: My College Semester

My sophomore summer was ok I really didn’t do many things besides play baseball and mow hay. To begin with I was really excited for baseball to start because it’s my favorite sport, but by the end of summer I was ready for it to be over. Mostly because I started playing baseball in the middle of March and didn’t get over until the end of July.

Throughout my high school and collegiate life, or what little I’ve had so far, I honestly haven’t done anything one could really consider notable. I spent the majority of my time over the past several year working on my own personal projects, avoiding joining clubs or getting ‘involved’. The only thing I can think of off the top of my head was the internship offer I received from AT&T this past December, which I gladly accepted. May I mention that I took the initiative to apply early and went through great lengths to receive the internship, so I was quite proud of this accomplishment. And good grades, of course.

Dustin, you brought up a good point about “home life being a challenge that children face in the classroom today.” I, myself, almost dropped out of college, during my last semester of Undergraduate school, due to my father being diagnosed with Pancreatic cancer. I was a 1,000 miles away from him, rarely got to see him, and just thought that I needed to be home with my dad instead of in school. I thought to myself that he was more important than school. What if I don’t get to say goodbye! How would his last moments be? As all of these things filled my head, I became tempted to let go. To dropout, go home, and not look back, but I didn’t! I stayed there even though my heart was at home. I loved my father very much and knew how much he

Let me start off with a small story because I am not sure where to begin.

The decision to return to college after a twenty year hiatus was a very intimidating one. Not only was I twenty years out of school and my study habits and routine long forgotten, but the world itself had changed enormously in terms of technology and everyday procedures. There were no such things as PC’s cell phones and yes the Internet back in the 1980’s. Having evolved with this technology made my return to college that much easier, yet I was still very apprehensive regarding the uncertainty of my success. I made the decision in an intuitive manner at this point and jumped in feet first not knowing what to expect and relying on my intelligence to get me through. The first semester I took extremely serious and managed to become a rational/linear

When I was student college freshman. I don’t know what expected out my freshman year, last memories and good friends. I know it is my first of the college bring about many experiences both should good positive and negative that would forever change as mine.

First, I’ll begin with that fact the I have almost made it! Indeed, my first semester in graduate school was a challenge. I have definitely learned so much in the last 16 weeks. Initially, I was not aware of how helpful this course would be. So much of the information provided in this course was not initiative. There were many things along the way that I had not yet given much consideration. To begin, my career plan was in some ways too specific and in other ways too general. My original career plan was to pursue a Master’s program, which I am currently doing, and then, a doctoral program in hopes of becoming a clinical health psychologist. Another part of my plan was to continue conducting research related to sexually transmitted infections and health behaviors among minority populations. Before this course, I did not have a back up plan. Fast forward to the end of this semester, I now have given my back up plan some thought. During my last spring semester, I will begin looking for jobs that will hire someone with my degree. At the same time, I will also begin making sure I have the appropriate paperwork completed. I intend to reach out to Meagan Philips for

Since my Freshman year in High School, I have been involved in many activities. The summer going into my freshman year, I was involved in was a camp called JUNE Project. It is a service camp based in Pottstown, PA. During the fall of my freshman year, I took the book for the freshman Field Hockey team. For the past three years, and I plan to continue for my last year, I have been taking the book and taking pictures for the high school’s Baseball team. Also, I helped run a Youth Praise and Worship band during my sophomore and junior year. For the past three years, and my final year in high school, I have been an assistant Sunday School teacher for St. Peters United Methodist Church. As assistant Sunday School teacher, I help create lesson plans

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

I was wondering how my SUNY Ulster credits would transfer into my freshman year at Manhattanville.

Typically, your mailman is someone you do not know. Maybe you do know him because your dog barks uncontrollably when he is near your home, or they're just a nice person. That's no the case for me, my mailman sucks at his job. Robert (whose name has been changed for privacy) has been giving me the wrong mail for the past 3 years. This affects me greatly because now that I am in college It is crucial for me to receive mail on time when it comes to missing school documents and student loans. In the spring of 2015, I was applying for colleges. Naturally, you receive either an acceptance or rejection letter, I received neither. Why may you ask? Because my dear mailman Robert did not deliver it to the right location. I did not know I was accepted

In regards to what I have done to strengthen my situation during my transition into college, I would admit that I have not sought advice from anyone. I have never really been someone to ask for help let alone for advice. I definitely have tried to take optimistic actions to assert myself. Never have I been someone to just sit back and quietly accept things as they are. I like to voice my own opinion and to have a say in events that involve me. If I am having trouble I prefer to know why that is even if I do not end up doing anything to change it. I have reframed this transition by viewing as a way to grow and learn how to accept and handle more responsibility than I ever have before now. Instead of viewing college as just more work to stress

College is something completely new to me;hence, I know that I will face numerous challenges because of my unfamiliarity with it. My College Readiness Program has warned us that we could probably be homesick at one point in our transition to college and I have a feeling that I will be homesick. However in order to ease my transition, I will step out of my comfort zone, join clubs, and meet new people this way I will make college my new home and not be homesick. During college, I may face myself having grades that I believe do not reflect my work and as advised by my College Readiness Program I will approach my professor during office hours to speak about why my grades are the way they are and to potentially find a way to boost my grade. College

I make major life decisions by asking people how to past high so I can research the best college for me. If I don't go to the right college it will make me stress out or I might not like it. If I don't ask the right people they might tell me something that is wrong. To buy a car I will look up what the car has on the car. This is what I have to do when I go to college.

Experiencing a year of college life has led me to many challenges and opportunities. I have been able to attend the most prestigious historically black college in the nation and I have also attended a predominantly white institution. While attending Spelman College I have gained so much knowledge, wisdom, and insight pertaining to my black culture. Due to many issues at home I had to attend an university that was predominantly white, this time period really enabled me to see the major downfall in the educational system. I felt that I was not gaining the same education I had received at Spelman because it didn’t intertwine a curriculum that discussed the issues and also the success of minorities. Being at a black university or college enabled