Personal Narrative: Space Bender As A College Student

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.

It happened all through-out college. I had always heard stories about body-shaming with overweight individuals, but I never thought that it would happen to myself or the millions of other young women on college campuses.

The droplets of rain emerge from the towering clouds as I step onto the vibrant green grass for the first time. I lock eyes with the monstrous building and tilt my head back until I have reached the roof. There I was. A stick-like, puny, first year college student looking at my home for the next four years. Yet I can't manage to take a second step. I stand there, staring at the giant brick block and lift my classic yellow rain jacket hood up over my impressively soft chocolate hair, protecting it from the harm of the rain. Four years of Ireland weather lays ahead of me. Four years of bunk beds in dorms. Four years of competing for the number one student. For years of awkward parties and tests. Four years until I'm out.

Upon entering college, I thought that you had to have a majority of your life planned out. You had to have a career of interest, an intended major, and a solid plan for after college. Little did I know, you didn’t need your whole life agenda prearranged after high school graduation. A lot of people say that college is a time to explore and find yourself, and that was something I never fully grasped until I was enrolled at Western Washington University. Throughout my first year and a quarter, I’ve had the ability to take classes in many different fields of study ranging from; humanities, lab sciences, multicultural studies, and many more. Even though these array of different classes were taken for General University Requirements, it allowed

Spring 2016 was a semester I thought I would give my all to since it was just one step away before I graduate. I did not realize the overwhelming stress it would have over me struggling to keep my GPA. When I spoke with my advisor for Spring advisement I wanted to transfer to a 4 year college since my GPA was high enough at that point but my advisor informed me I am close to graduating and the better choice would be to finish and graduate with my Associates Degree. I took the advice and enrolled in two science classes, on music class, and one statistics class. Taking two science classes was not the best idea especially being so close to the finish line of graduating. I took a Bio 210 class and Chem 121, I am not a science major and I have decided

I have headed off to college and to be completely honest I have never been so true to myself as I am these days. I have started to change the world in small significant ways and have made the conscious effort and decision to be my 100% true self in order to better others and speak my truth.

Going to college has been a dream of mine ever since I entered High School. I have worked rigorously throughout high school with the hopes that my grades would get me into a good college/university. However, I did not realize that getting into a college was not going to be the only obstacle, affording it was going to be the biggest.

Once I leave to college to start my future I hope that I won't leave my father with the constant fear of worrying about the financial troubles that lie ahead of him. I want him to be able to relax and know that his daughter is well taken care of. This scholarship will help me accomplish my goals and watch out for my family.

I am attending college, so that I will be able to learn more about my major and also to explore my options. While in high school, I had many reasons and people that motivated me to enroll into college, including my mom, my guidance counselors, and research on what I want to be later on in life. Although I was already going to apply for college, I heard a lot of good things about it from a few of my friends, on how college really makes you a stronger and more independent person. In the past few years, I’ve met quite a few people who have graduated high school and decided not to attend any college, and sooner or later I hear about how upset they are that they did not attend and how they have no idea what to do with their life. I did not want

At the start of my freshman year at the University of California - Santa Cruz I was immensely scared. I came out of Deer Valley High School with a Grade Point Average of 3.33 and a weighted GPA of 3.47. The reason this intimidated me was because the average GPA at UCSC was 3.88. However, instead of feeling that I did not belong in the school, I used that as motivation to show my peers that I am not only on the same tier as them but even above. I ended up with a 3.66 my first quarter and a 4.0 my next two quarters while holding two

College is not as big a change as I thought it was going to be. These first weeks are not even that different from high school. I go to school, home, and my boyfriend's. It is just another routine. All I really do is walk around campus with my headphones in and ignore everyone. My only friends really are my roommates. We all have to much life going on to really do many things together. Most of us are not even home most of the time.

As Senior year gets closer and closer to the end college is the next to approach. I have already applied to colleges after considering the many options and narrowing down my search. When it came to college I never really thought about not going. It has never really been an option because I wanted to go and my parents did too. When applying for college came up I did have a bump in the road because of money. I was given a choice to do what I wanted; to pick where I wanted to go, but I wasn’t as ready as I thought. While I was looking through colleges there were a lot of majors and minors I had never thought about. I knew I wanted to go to a four-year college, but where? After long talks with my counselor I finally settle for about seven school;

The fact that there is life after school is honestly a little terrifying. Since the age of six we have been put in school and that is all we have known, but come college graduation we are all thrown out in the real world. We are expected to immediately go out and get a job, start a family and grow up. While this thought is a little scary I am very excited to go on this journey. From college on I hope to thrive in college, become a great teacher, create a family and be financially stable.

Chronokinesis, fourth dimension manipulation, temporal warping: each is a decorative way to describe time control, my most favorable superpower. Superheroes are usually defined as possessing skillful powers, but to me they’re people who work effortlessly to protect and help in any way they can. Whether it’s super strength, invisibility, or flying, only with the power to control time and space could I save everyone. No other enhancement has the ability to hinder crime, prevent accidents, or even stop an invisible evil like disease or corruption. By shifting “space” time to distort our dimension, controlling a specific object or area could protect not just a single damsel or city, but the entire world. I could pinpoint exact moments and change

Growing up I lived with my mom and grandparents. My dad left before I was even born, so my mom was stuck paying the bills of my everyday life. I struggled in school a lot with the fact that everyone around me had a dad, but I didn’t. As time grew on the expenses just kept piling up and I was blaming myself for my dad leaving when truthfully it wasn’t mine or my mom’s fault at all.