Personal Narrative: My Transition Into College

Fear and anxiety plagued my mind during this transition, however my wife and daughter kept my mind at ease. The information and instruction that was provided from the Professors at Durham Tech galvanized something deep within me. I began to strive for goals that I thought were unattainable as a naïve adolescent. Instructors encouraged me to work hard and to be persistent when it came to the immense obstacles of my course work such as giving a presentation at an honors symposium as an honors student. After countless years of self doubt and negative feelings towards education as a whole, for the first time in my life, I felt like college was an option for

The transition from high school to college isn’t always easy but I will make it. Most students find it hard to transition from high school going off to college. Whether you’re going to college, going to a trade school, or even starting to work you are going to have to learn how to adjust to this new lifestyle. I think the process for me after gradation going a

The three basic areas of successful AT transitions (skills for independence, self-determination, and planning transition services related to a coordinated set of activities) can be applied to any student to uses AT. How might these ideas be applied differently for students who are moving to postsecondary educational environments than for students who will transition to group homes and/or supported employment after they leave high school?

The transition into college can be one of the most exciting times in a young adult’s life. They are starting a new chapter in their lives that may have a lasting effect on their future. Many new friendships will be made, along with countless amounts of changes in their life including new habitat, change in income, workload amounts, and

I never imagined myself transferring, it just wasn’t part of my plan, and habitually when transformation or transitioning occur, I adapt. Usually. As my reserved personality highlights, I’ve never been one to take extraordinary risks or be bold when something isn’t quite right. But during this first year of my college experience, being bold is becoming more substantial to my success.

Throughout High School I thought I was proficient in reading and writing in my English classes, from freshman year to senior year English classes were easy and felt I could transition my confidence to community college after graduation until I took the English assessment exam and failed in the spring of 2012. Failing my entrance exam was devastating and I refused to accept my results, I waited two academic year before I can appeal to retest my English entrance exam and after weeks of waiting I was approved to retest. After I retest the results were the same, I was placed in remedial English not only was I devastated again but I personally felt worthless. I did not know what was wrong with my reading and writing but I had no choice to enroll

Change has always been a part of my life. One of the biggest changes happened when I was 15 years old. I started to think of college in my last years of middle school. Until then College was someone else’s reality. Not many people from my community attended college. They felt that their futures were supposed to be spent being a clerk or fisherman. The change happened on a trip to visit mainland college towns, explore possibilities beyond the islands cultural landscape

After recently graduating from Fullerton College with two associate degrees in psychology, I could have not accomplished this goal all by myself without the proper guidance that I received from EOPS and FYSI at the time. These programs were established to support former foster youth at Fullerton College in their education as long as they met all the conditions for each semester. As a result, this was valuable for me during my time as a community college student, allowing me to guarantee that I would finish all my requirements on time to transfer to a good university, and becoming more involved with the campus each semester. That being said, this is one of the main reasons as to why I am applying to your program, so I could receive the support

Coming to college is hard. You have to keep your grades up through 13 years of public education. You also should obtain a car to get from point A to point B. This also requires having a job to keep the car fueled and money in your pocket to live off of. Motivation is also a tricky thing to pin down. It seems to appear when you don’t need it, and then just vanish when you need it the most. And organizational skills, what are those? These are some of the challenges I faced when deciding to go to college.

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transition. There are many problems that students will face and many trials they will endure. By knowing how university life works, junior students can avoid or find a solution to the many transitional problems that they will face.

College is what people like to say is the start of a new life or a new chapter in what’s to come. To me it isn’t entirely true. I understand that it’s only a few weeks into the whole situation, but my personality restrains my hands from firmly grasping the whole college atmosphere. I came into college excited waiting for the escape of all the drama and the annoying nature of cliques. But now that I’m here I discover that it amplifies all that I wanted to get away from. From day one I could easily tell who the jocks were, who was a book nerd, or those who loved the life of living Greek. When graduating from high school, I was hoping college classes would be more of a challenge as well. But even now, the concept covered in each class is like a flashback through all four of my high school year. What I was most hyped about coming to college for was the room to

At the beginning of my final year, this was a rough change to go through. Juggling a job, maintaining grades, participating in extracurriculars, and applying for colleges placed a lot of stress on me. As the year went along, I started to realize this was a way to experience and react to sudden change and step outside of my comfort zone. Despite not being useful to my future directly, the transition period has taught me how to adjust to different situations and handle numerous activities at

For the first few months, my transition to university was not a smooth one. I found myself making premature decisions, almost approaching things the way I did when I was back in high school. In one

My journey to college began around 7th grade in middle school, I would always hear instructors mention further education. There was a huge emphasis on being prepared for high school and to begin considering a career. At that point, there was also the influence of both my parents to pursue a career. My father would always tell me about his past work experience and end his statements with, “does that sound like a nice job to do?” for example, around 1989 he worked at a dairy farm. In 1992 he worked the night shift at the old Butterball factory; in the late 90’s he began construction, which is what he currently does for a living.