Personal Narrative: My Last Semester Of Undergraduate School

In all my years of school, I never really enjoyed reading or writing. In elementary and middle school, I didn't hate it but I didn't look forward to it. Although, the books we had to read were not bad and I did enjoy some of them. Once high school came along, all the assignments got harder and my dislike for reading and writing grew stronger. Overall, I would say my Sophomore year was the worst but not because of the assignments but something else bigger than that.

There is something else I would like you to know about me. The University of Florida has always been my school of choice. My father is an alumnus, and my sister is now a Sophomore. I want nothing more than to join them as Gators.

Before creating my collage, I sat down and brainstormed a list of the areas where I felt challenged during my first year of college. After I wrote down my struggles, I thought about my friends who I know are going through college or university with certain challenges. I talked with some of them about what their most significant stressor was during their first year of college/university. Once I had my list complete I went through magazines and searched online to find photos to represent all of the challenges.

It was my second semester of ninth grade and I was figuring out the ropes and secrets of high school gradually. I made it onto varsity swim team and took an AP class, I thought I was doing pretty well for myself until all the sudden it was second-semester biology. I loved the class until all the sudden I was failing for no manifest reason. I had scored strongly on all of my quizzes, tests, and homework so I decided to take matters into my own hands and speak to him about my grade. He had recorded the grades wrong and he said he would fix them; he never ended up doing it. When it became April and I saw failing grades in the grade book I had never done or learned before I started to become concerned. I contacted my teacher to attempt to get him

Being a freshman is the hardest of your four years in high school. Have you ever been pressured to be the best person you can be? This is how my year was as a freshman. Freshman year was the most different I never thought I would of found my way around the school when I first started to go there. Freshman year was the best year throughout my years of high school and it was the only year I had friends. During this year I had a lot of anxieties which dealt with me thinking I’m gonna be alone and not have any friends throughout the year to support me through the whole thing. Also, I would think of the pressure of not doing good in any of my classes so I would think it would affect my GPA in the future. The transition from middle school to high school was a different type of thing to do.

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.

During my Sophomore year I interned with the Pennsylvania Democratic Party. As an intern I trained and recruited volunteers, registered people of all parties to vote, canvassed and phone-banked for the 2016 Presidential election, ensured that voters had transportation to their polling place, and watched the polling locations to ensure the safety of all voters.

Throughout the rigorous society of college I’ve managed to grow and mature immensely. My first two years of college were less than perfect, but as the years went on I became better. College, like anything else in life is not easy—it is about hard work and life lessons. Sometimes, life lessons are slow in the teaching process—but you will always learn, no matter how long it takes. My grades throughout my time at New York Institute of Technology have grown like myself. I’ve transitioned from receiving horrific calculus grades to smile-worthy calculus grades—from Ds to taking both calculus 1 and 2 in the same semester, and receiving As. Additionally, I was lucky enough to take both biomedical research 1 and 2 at the same time. I was lucky enough

I made a decision at fifteen most teenagers do not have to make until their senior year of high school. I decided to venture on my own in order to better my future. Sophomore year, I started attending a residential high school for top performing students in the state of Louisiana. Over the past three years, I lived alone while my parents have traveled all over the continental United States therefore learning how to take care of myself at a young age. Additionally, in a diverse learning community such as the Louisiana School of Math, Science, and the Arts (LSMSA), I was able to learn how to work and live with students whose minds function differently than mine.

The third but least difficult transition, was the day I left for college. My dad lost a son that was helping around the house and my mom lost the role of being a mother by doing laundry and the teachings of life. The biggest problem for them both, was knowing that their son was becoming independent and no longer needing help. They have attempted to send me money, they have attempted to get me to bring my laundry home, and they have attempted to packaged dinners for me. None of those attempts had made it, until I was going through a very rough time. Even now, as I am struggling, they begun sending me money to help with my financial stability and helped with other areas such as transportation, school, and work. They are still fighting this transition

Usually in highschool it's your friends that make it worthwhile those are the people that you remember and the people that make it even more bearable but for me it's the opposite.

For the first two and a half years of my college career I attended Sterling College. Sterling was a small, private, four year Christian college, where I had the opportunity to run track and cross country. I loved the Ed department there, however, transferring to K-State was the best decision for my family. I got married the week after my freshman year had come to an end, and my new husband got deployed to Kuwait shortly after, and then Iraq. While he was gone I decided to return to SC, and not let my track scholarship go to waste. When he returned last March we made it work with him living in our home here, and my living two hours away. It was very difficult, we had weekend visits, and then I came home. Well, we tried it again this fall and

My junior year wasn't the best to me it could have been way better than what it was. I didn't really like the classes i had last year so i would not do the work and when i see that i was close to failing. I would try to turn in my work when i felt so it made my grades look terrible. So for me junior year was not so good. Success as a junior as junior well i did a lot i was a runner up for states in track for the 4*400 which was a good accomplishment. I went to battle of the bands with the euclid high marching band, that was very good experience i played at severance hall for a concert with youth and professional players. My challenges was really to stay focused on school like i would pay attention in one class and then get into the next class and not do as single worksheet so my attitude to do things was very bad. I lost my great uncle

My Sophomore year of high school my teacher signed me up to take the Accuplacer for college classes, I took the test with no hope of passing. I’m the type of person to not really have hope in myself, I doubt myself way too much. it was only an accuplacer test for college classes, to some people that’s not important but to me it was, my parents had talked about this to me since my freshman year

My first year of graduate school involved a lot of design courses, focusing predominantly on advanced mathematical design methods, system design/optimization and safety procedures for the same and I genuinely owe a lot to Dr. Schuller for how effortlessly I was able to navigate them. I remember sitting in class and approaching it as more of a review while a lot of students were being introduced to it for the first time. The material Dr. Schuller covered during our senior capstone has comfortably taken me through graduate level coursework, and I am eternally grateful for that.