Personal Narrative: How College And Life Work

Do I work best under pressure? You could say so after spending four hours trying to find what am I going to talk about on my 3rd attempt writing this paper the day before its due. Sorry Prof. Meehan, I’m working on how to utilize my time. I’m learning how college and life work. One of my favorite clichés to analyze is “I’m not getting any younger.” because when you think about that quote, it sucks. I’ll never re-live yesterday or these minutes I spent deleting a weak thesis statement. I was born and raised in this small town, called Valley Stream located in New York. I lived here for the past 18 years of my life. Most of my friends I have known since kindergarten and junior high school. We were well known around town, and were considered

Everything here is slow and in my neighborhood, there’s a huge population of elderly people. There wasn’t much to do when I first came, so I waited for the Fall semester to start. I’m currently attending my freshman year of college again because I slacked off when I went to Queens Borough Community College and had very few credits so there was no point to transfer them. I tried looking to make friends with some of the people on campus at North Hampton, but they’re interest are too different from mine. The people here are much more friendly than the people at my old community college but we just don’t click. A positive about moving here was my grades did get better; I started putting in an effort in school and did all of my work and started studying. I am happy about that, however it’s not the same talking to my friends back home in New York. I usually have nothing to talk about besides school while they tell me how they’re walking in fashion shows in the city or modeling for a clothing brand. I get frustrated and angry knowing that living out here, I won’t have those opportunities and network the way my friends can in New York. Besides opportunities I’m sad a lot of the time seeing my friends on social media hanging out while I’m 100’s of miles away doing nothing. I usually write how I feel daily in my journal, but I sometimes become too sad to even

He gave me the best advice anybody gave me in a long time, which was, “When you’re stagnant, you begin to think about things you don’t need to.” This piece of advice was very true, because I began to think about death and overcoming the fear of dying. We made an agreement for me to tell him what I did everyday so I could work on managing and utilizing my time. Everyday around 11pm I would tell him what I did daily and he would tell me to “Keep going.” So everyday I learn how to use my time wisely and better myself. I haven’t been as sluggish laying in my bed all day. Now, I only have my phone on for about 30 minutes a day. I read daily and study for upcoming exams. I learned how to plan my days better rather than waking up around 12 and being on my phone all day. I’ve had to accept that I won’t live in New York until after these two years of school are up so I can apply to Pace University for journalism and start turning my dreams into reality for interning for Complex