Personal Narrative: This Program Will Change My Life

This program has given me the drive to go to college, surround myself with positive influences, and knowing that I am capable of forging my own dream. An aspect of my own life that I want to develop is my English skills, and the idea of creating my own business has given me the motivation to do so. Now I am in a English program to learn how to express myself better in public and in front of a multitude of people. If I had the opportunity to attend college, I would strive to learn how to invest money to establish my own

At first I thought that it was only a program that would tour colleges but the presentations given have explained it in much further detail and has drawn me in. I feel that this program will aid me in achieving my goals by strengthening my relationship with GOD, giving me the opportunity to learn from others - both peers and elders- about life and education and how to balance it all, showing me that there are more choices in colleges other than the major and predominantly white universities, and because it will allow for myself and others hands on experience with our desired careers. I do understand that will all these benefits that I also need to give back to the program and I will do so by ; completing all given assignments for both Campus Connection and school; staying out of any and all trouble; showing up for every event dressed appropriately; and by following all said and unsaid rules associated with the

I believe that your program will provide me with very vital and important skills that I can implement into my future career in social

To me this program thought me many lesson above and beyond, challenges my knowledge skills, and developed my thinking globally. My experience in the program will be a life learn lesson because I never gave up no matter how tough it was sometimes. Because I always remember life is a journey that I walk through every day. Not so many people get such

More importantly, this program would challenge those beliefs by helping me move out of the comfort zone and becoming more self-aware of all I have to offer. Roles that I have filled in the past, made me wish that I had some professional training and mentors to lean on when the decisions were difficult or rather assurance in my abilities.

The program is both social and academic. I was too ambitious to productive during my last summer of high school. Thus, despite being financially struggle, I tried my best to use my savings to attend the program, with the help of tuition scholarships. In here, I built great connections with faculties and friends, whom I still stay in contact and who are helping me with my academic endeavor. Being an on child who was raised protectively in home and never allow to go on field trip, I thought this was a unique program that allows me to gain independence being far away from home and support myself. The program taught me how to get along with roommates and how to be friends with different people before my real college life started. In the beginning, I shed blood and tears, missing my parents so much. However, I knew that the most difficult obstacle to overcome is overcoming myself. New Start gave a new effect on my work ethic because of the experience I had with college students’ team work and with the conference that I presented. The transition to college became easier a few months

Life is a process. From the day we are born to the day we pass away, we go through experiences of happiness and sadness. Every day in between, we work on ourselves to make ourselves the best versions possible. This is similar programming. When programming, we go through a series of trials to make the program the best possible version of itself. Once something new is discovered, that program continues to build. I am applying to this Stevens Program because my curiosity drives me to learn more even during the summertime. Ever since my brother, Kenny, explained to me his experiences of coding, I was inquisitive about coding since. It seemed like people created something out of nothing. They would begin with a simple, miniscule idea and turn this

The agency that I visited for my placement is called Positive Change Academy. This academy is located in Wilmington Delaware. Wilmington Delaware is a city where about 17,000 of its residents are living below the poverty level. Positive Change is an alternative school for children in 1st through 8th grade. Children are enrolled in this school usually due to behavioral issues. The goal is to equip the children with the appropriate resources to help reintegrate them all back into public, or private schooling systems. I had the pleasure of interviewing with Mr. Miller: Director of Education. Mr. Miller stated that he is basically the assistant principal at the school.

Week two has been a bit of a rough week for my behavioral change project. I became sick and was stuck at home for three days this week. This caused me to have a bit of a relapse because when I am not feeling well I turn to things that comfort me. A big comfort for me is technology and I hate to admit it but I binge watched a lot of television this week and I used social media quite often. The worst part is that now that the binge has started I am having a difficult time stopping again. I am so stressed now because I missed a great deal of class and as a result I feel extremely far behind and anxious about if I can make it up successfully. Yet, all I want to do is watch Netflix and in all honesty that is all I have been doing this week. After the first week, I felt so strong (naively so) but now I only feel defeated by my own mind. That is a hard concept for me to grasp because how is it that something that feels so good, relaxing, and happy is so detrimental to my life in the areas of education, work, and relationships? I suppose though that part of the reason we do this project is to see what will make us relapse. For me and

Being in this program has caused me to experience an extreme amount of pressure to succeed in everything I do, or else I will be looked down on as failing to live up to my expectation. Ultimately, this pressure has been positive, as I am now quite good at most of the things I set out to do well, although I have had to lose nearly all of the social aspects of life that children my age typically enjoy. Overall, it could be said that my life was changed rather positively by the event described in this

This program can also help me overcome my life’s abundance of obstacles into opportunities. The positive

Growing up with a father in the military, you move around a lot more than you would like to. I was born just east of St. Louis in a city called Shiloh in Illinois. When I was two years old my dad got the assignment to move to Hawaii. We spent seven great years in Hawaii, we had one of the greatest churches I have ever been to name New Hope. New Hope was a lot like Olivet's atmosphere, the people were always friendly and there always something to keep someone busy. I used to dance at church, I did hip-hop and interpretive dance, but you could never tell that from the way I look now.

As a junior this year and three season under my belt I am very happy with my decision to try something new. As a freshman I decided to go out for tennis. Luckily for me, the program at my high school was a feeding program so they don’t cut freshman because we are the future of the program. But it was my very good friend who got me to get out of my shell and try something new with her.

In these event my life has been completely altered. Whether it was through my personality or physical things. I cannot complain about these events because as far as I know, they have changed my life for the better.

But, that became a problem when I found out that I had Dyslexia and ADHD. Dyslexia is pretty much a reading disorder where you might read certain letters or words backwards, or see them as a different word. ADHD is where I can’t stop looking at things moving around me and listening to the faintest of sounds, which in return makes it difficult to concentrate. This has helped me a lot because it makes me want to work harder than most of your average students. The program would help me academically and overcome obstacles. The professors will challenge me to the point that I might not succeed but I know that I will be in good hands with the teachers, students, and