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Personal Narrative: What I Learned In College

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I am writing to inform you of my experiences from my first semester of my W-131 class. Coming into college I was very scared. I wasn’t so much scared of new things, because we experience new things every day. I feared failure, what I mean by that is I have a lot of people counting on me to graduate and to do good. At times is stressful because I think of scenarios of what will happen if I don’t graduate. It’s also stressful because I’m here on a scholarship. That scholarship requires me to pass all my classes with a c- or better. That might not seem like a harsh thing, but combining all the class together leads to a world of stress. I’m not going to lie I sometimes must neglect a class to focus on another classes work. College is like when …show more content…

College has defiantly changed me. I feel as if I gained more knowledge the time I have been in college verses the time I spent in high school. I can defiantly tell you that you as a person will become more mature and much more knowledgeable the day you first step foot into your first college class. The advice I can give you is to take things step by step. Look at everything thoroughly and analyze your work. One last thing is do not and I mean do not procreant. It will just add on to the stress you already …show more content…

You get the work done and you understand what she is teaching in class and in the handouts, you should be golden. If you have questions you can always email her and ask her the questions you want to be answered. She is fast when it comes to answering emails she gets sent. Do not hesitate to send her an email. Its best to be told something twice rather than being left in the dark to wonder if you should have tired. In my opinion I think I didn’t reach the course goals as much as I wanted to. I didn’t seek help even though all the resources for help were handed to me. I was scared to ask for help because I didn’t want to seem weak or seem like I didn’t know what I was doing. In all actuality, I didn’t know what was going on for the most part. I regret not seeking more help because I know my grade would have better and I would have gained much more knowledge that way. Don’t hesitate to ask for help because if you look to the right and left of you the person next to you will most likely struggling in something. You don’t want to be like me and not seek the

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