Personal Narrative: My Freshman Year In College

Entering my freshman year in college, I was quite nervous for multiple reasons. I was nervous about keeping my grades up, making new friends, and ultimately figuring out who I was going to become as I transitioned into adulthood. However, the idea that scared me the most was the thought of having to write numerous, long and complicated essays, which I had always heard college students talk about. In high school writing was not made of any importance; therefore, I felt quite unprepared and petrified to attempt a college level English course. As I walked into my freshman, fall semester English class I remember thinking “okay, these people don’t look like geniuses either, so I can do this.” Then came our first major writing assignment, which …show more content…
I had received the professor I wanted and felt comfortable that I could easily make an A, as I had done the previous semester. At the beginning, my A seemed easily acquirable. However, after the talk of having to write an eight to ten-page essay surfaced; I freaked. I wondered how in the world I was going to write an essay that lengthy and then add in sources and citations, which I was already horrible at. Thankfully, my professor quickly calmed my intense fears. She took us step by step through the process of finding articles related to our topics, learning how to correctly cite them, and teaching us how to correctly use each source in our papers. Shortly, I became more confident that I could write this paper and get a decent score, which I did accomplish. My spring semester of English taught me not only how to write papers, but how to incorporate the ideas of others in order to back up my own theories on topics. My spring semester English course ended with a presentation, which I was quite uneasy about since I had not performed presentation since high school. I had note cards prepared like I used to do in high school in case I went blank and forgot what I wanted to say. Yet, as I was presenting I never looked at my prepared note cards. In fact, after my presentation, I felt so empowered. I recognized that I had been able to confidently present my topic because this time I had truly researched and actually