Personal Narrative: My Graduation Portfolio

My College and Career goals include graduating college and getting a job. I wish to attend the University of Alabama. I plan to major in occupational therapy or speech therapy. After I graduate with my bachelor's degree I wish to get my master's degree. After I finish my schooling I want to receive a job that allows me to provide for my family. I wish to receive this job in my degree's field. After receiving this job I wish to improve to reach a leadership role.

Over my high school years at Waukesha North, I have had a very diverse and fun experience. From my sophomore year when i started working and earning my own money to my freshman year when i joined marching band. High school has taught me a lot about myself and others, and i only plan to further the knowledge through my college years.

Over the past 4 years, I have taken in many life experiences, and quickly grown into an adult faster than I imagined. High School has taught me so many things; like knowledge, friendships, involvement, balance, learning from mistakes, and how to grow into the person I want to become. The lessons were taught from friends, family, teachers, and coaches. I would say that my high school experience was very different than most, but I wouldn't of traded it for the normal 4 years of high school for the world.

I have taken many different college preparatory classes throughout my college career that include: Chemistry 1100, Chemistry 1111, AP English, Trigonometry, College Algebra, and Calculus. These classes are the most difficult I have taken and they are the most difficult the school offers. I believe that these classes have prepared me the best for my post-secondary education from what I learn around the subjects we are taught. To succeed in theses classes you need countless hours and focused effort towards studying. These classes have given me a insight to how I should study for college exams and tests. My Math and English courses will give me a head start when starting my first year of college during the intro period of classes. The courses

I think what I enjoyed the most is, since we’re kind of all stucked together, we have to work together a lot, whether that’s with teachers or students, if we have differences with each other, we have to figure a way to work things out, and it’s always nice to problem solve and get through those hard times. I feel like I’ve learned a lot about myself and really grown. I think high school has provided me with a lot of room to become who I am supposed to be.

My writing portfolio includes my best work that was completed within The Beginners Creative Writing class. I must say that this class was completely different from what I thought it was going to be like. I assumed that it would be like any other "English" class. I was very wrong. I really enjoyed this creative writing class. I have learned a lot about the many different writing styles. This class also helped me to dig deep and write from the depths within instead of just surface writing. Even though poetry is my favorite form of writing; I must be honest and say it was the most challenging for me. I love to write poetry, but I was not very familiar with the literary terms, different structures, styles/forms of poetry. I have always stayed within

Legacy has provided a wonderful foundation for me as a first time college student. To start, Legacy has created a cohort in its own to provide support for me and many other first time and returning college students. Before entering into college I did not have a lot of different responsibilities to take care of. My main focus was to go to high school, got to work, and go home. Starting college and especially the Legacy program has taught me more responsibility. I have been taught how to manage my time. Although, it is still a work in progress, I still have learned how to go to work, go to school, study, and take care of my responsibilities at home as well. Taking English 60/100/117 and Ethnic Studies 129 has help me everywhere from studying

This experience had brought an many things for me. I felt what freedom was like, flying high, wings out, breezing blowing through me. All the knowledge that sometimes makes my head explode. Then not to forget the choice to start my life on the right path. In high school, the teachers allowed me time to finish my work when I wanted to, complete the assignment in my perspective, possibly leaving lunch, and all these events I could do in school now, which only showed the freedom brought in. On top of that, everyday I learned something, whether it was a life lesson about waking up on time or 9*9. My teachers never wasted a day to teach, and the crazier thing is that it was all for me and my future. Lastly, in my school teachers would just voluntarily let you know how you future is looking. I’m a complete stickler over my grades and they wouldn’t mind telling if I get a B on a paper then my 97% grade would drop to a 95% in a day. Teachers would tell me ways to start my college future because my dream is to attend OU and major in biology. So they give me chances to take test, tell me about what I need to continue to do and many things more. So you can conclude that, high school itself has really allowed me to grow in several ways and freedom, knowledge and my future are just a few prime examples. Although the main thing is that I was encouraged by my teachers to take the ACT test as a

My Resume doesn’t stray from the classic style of resumes to much at least not the first two portions of the resume. Once we get to the bottom of my resume I split my skills into two columns so I could use as much space as possible to define me as a hard working with plenty of experience in design, writing, and communication specifically.

As a college graduate, I would probably be perplexed if I were offered a lump sum of $5,000 sign-on bonus for my first post-college job. There are a number of things to consider when deciding whether to pay off existing debt or invest the money for additional earning potential. The first thing that I would consider is my risk tolerance including my age, income, earning power, time horizon and tax situation (Artzberger, 2014). My age at the time would weigh into the decision heavily. Meaning, at this time, I am relatively young and the time value of $5,000 at 5% interest would be approximately $21,000. Since I have paid taxes on the money, I could invest in a Roth IRA for tax-free gains upon retirement. On the other hand, paying off debt may

My situation is extremely bad with my debt steadily increasing every single month and is impossible to get out of with my income. My main expenses are miscellaneous, mortgage, utilities, and education. Due to my profession and number of kids, it is impossible to change the education expenses and miscellaneous expenses. Those two expenses alone leave me with only $203.45 per month to pay for life insurance, utilities, car loans and the rent. Since I am living with Whitney, the minimum price of an apartment we can buy is 1/6 of our net incomes or $659.54. Even if we split the payments based off of our number of children (I pay for 2/5 and he pays for 3/5 since he has 2 kids) that still makes my rent payment $263.82 - which already puts me over

High school has helped to shape me as a person because of all the new experiences I’ve had so far (good and bad). Before my first week of high school, I was a nervous mess and was scared to come to high school. Luckily, I had friends who helped ease away all the nervousness. Altogether High school has changed me for the better. The H.S.A. has and will continue to give me opportunities that I wouldn’t have otherwise. Moreover, it has helped to give me a stronger sense of purpose for what I want to do later in life and the decisions I will make.

My freshman year at Turlock was difficult. I had to become accustomed to taking advanced classes where I knew no one from my middle school(and still don’t) and balnace them with keeping up with my frinds. hOwever, I ended up losing mos of my frinds by December. I was sad and stresssed, I did not kow who my friends were anymore. I began to lose my social identity without my frinds. So, I made a new frineds in my classes. They did not tease me for my name. I began to stop biting my nails; and I began to accept my

The message that I want to get across by writing the portfolio is the memories that me and my brother have had. The memories that I have had with my brother are very special and very important to me. Over the last couple years me and my brother have bonded more and made new memories. Also by writing this I want my brother to get the message that I love him and appreciate him for all he does for me. My brother is always is always there when I need him. Together we are an unstoppable team.

How i changed in high school was little help and time but time will tell the rest of my high school years.