Personal Narrative: How To Win At Life

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The first event I attended was the Causeway Classic Blood Drive for the service requirement for the Green Certificate. I tried to give blood since I have donated before without a problem and I was hoping it was going to be quick. My thought of it being quick was wrong. I had waited over an hour to attempt to give blood and in the end I could not give blood. I ran into troubles while I was being checked for my blood pressure. At first I was told that she could not hear the blood pressure at all. Once she could finally check it my blood pressure was high. I had to wait another five minutes before she would check again. During the second attempt I failed again with a even higher blood pressure than before so I was told I couldn 't give blood.
My second event was for the professional development requirement and I went to the “How to Win at Life “ event. This event was a surprisingly enjoyable one. For the first station I got to choose a card with a career that went with my major. On that card it listed a years salary, which I would use for the game. Going from station to station I got to choose life choices such as living arrangements, cars, saving,
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By looking at the title my expectation was that I was going to be a boring movie about not taking drugs like most movies are. I just thought it was just a comical title that the producer gave it. Needless to say I was wrong. Surprisingly it actually did teach you how to sell drugs during most of the movie. Granted there were messages to stay away from drugs every now and then, but not really that often. It went through describing the different levels of selling drugs from the bottom sellers to the drug lords. It described the job of each level of drug selling and how to get away with it. The movie had some speakers who spoke about when they sold drugs and how much they earned doing it. The amount they earned was very

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