Personal Narrative: My Transition Into College

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

Obtaining my bachelor’s degree in Business Administration has been a vision of mine since I began my journey years ago; however, as life continued to get in the way, the dream I had seem to diminish. When I made the verdict to go to college I was straight out of high school and wasn’t equipped for it. Nonetheless, I was able to keep afloat I believe that you must condition yourself for the transition to college. Being a single mother I was in a continuous state of “mom mode” if you will and let my schooling

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

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

had no idea what I was about to endure, when it came to transitioning. I was in the process of making the transition of high school graduate to college student. I had chosen to take my first writing class of the school year, wanting to rip it off like a band aid. I had previously come to the decision that it was not one of my strong subjects, but had the hope I would improve. I walked into my first class of that Monday morning and sat down in front one of the many computers surrounding the walls.

brain. Transition from high school to college was a huge change for me because I wasn’t exposed to a college life before. Once I came to college I knew that I had to step up my game in order to fulfill my dreams. First year of college year I had no idea what I wanted to be, as the year went by I figured out my major. My major is Information Systems and I am currently a sophomore in UMBC. My career plan is to finish my 4-year degree plan successfully with a good GPA. After completing my bachelor’s

Pakistan to the United States for college was an interesting transition from me. Attending a high school that followed international curriculum helped me to become more aware of the world around me other than just the sheltered live I lived in Pakistan. As I came to Indiana University to pursue my Bachelors degree in Economics, I was anxious as to how I will be able to fit in. However, after my first week at college, I discovered that my time in high school and my summer school experience at UCLA

I’m prepared to overcome the transition from high-school to college writing. Yes, that transition was tough, but the experience it keeps giving me is, so far, totally worth it. In this college class I have had to grow accustomed to writing about new topics in new styles and explore the different ways I can present my ideas and incorporate them into the papers I write. My vocabulary has grown, in two ways, which some I learned being that to keep up a level of interest in my reader - I mean, who wants

CLRC Writing Center Structure of a Personal Narrative Essay “Narrative” is a term more commonly known as “story.” Narratives written for college or personal narratives, tell a story, usually to some point, to illustrate some truth or insight. Following are some tools to help you structure your personal narrative, breaking it down into parts. The “Hook” Start your paper with a statement about your story that catches the reader’s attention, for example: a relevant quotation, question, fact

from the personal narrative to summary/strong response. Now is the culmination point of all our hard work over the last seven weeks. I believe my perspective paper, my research paper, and my personal narrative were my three best works of the semester. I hope that have given you a sense of who I am as a writer and a person, because if there is no life, no soul to my writing, then it is nothing but a bunch of words splashed on paper. The first paper I will discuss is my perspective