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Personal Narrative: My Life After College

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For as long as I have remembered, I have dreamed of getting into a good college. If i take the early college pathway, my life will be way easier after I graduate, and get into a college, because I will only have to take a couple of years to graduate. If I take the early college program, I can enjoy the rest of my life after college, because I will only have to take a couple of years.

The first reason I want to get into the early college pathway is because it will save time in the future for me, after I graduate from high school. After I graduate from high school, I will only need to take a couple of years of college to graduate and get my bachelor's degree, and then I can pursue into my career. I have always wanted to become a computer programmer, and if I take the early college program, I can finish all the required college classes in high school, and focus on computer science in college. …show more content…

The early college program in Delta costs very little, and if I do the Delta program in high school, it saves 2 years of college for me. This helps a lot, as it saves lots of money, and I can graduate faster. My dream university is Berkeley, and if I get into Berkeley I can save lots of money if I do the early college pathway.

All in all, the two reasons why I want to enroll into the early college program is because it saves lots of money, and it saves lots of time in the future after I graduate and get into a

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