Personal Narrative: My First Year College Experience

On November 30th, I attended my last first year experience event; I attended the post-election discussion. This was by far the most interesting presentation I have been to. During this presentation, many topics were discussed about negativity and violence. It was a panel of people talking about their opinions on this historical and political election. As said in the beginning, one professor stated, “a man’s last name has now become simonious with negative change.” He said this was a problem because we need to address the problems because as Americans we are here with so many problems that needs to be addresses. Once the first student came up and began talking about his fear as an African American living in a civilization with a president …show more content…
We have a discussion each class about numerous topics, and our instructors try to engage us in the discussion to see our stand point on the topic. During one class we briefly gave mini presentation on ourselves just to teach us about public speaking. This is a great technique to get students started. One the confidence kicks in, the power will come along. This event will impact my academic development as a student when I am put in a situation where I need to stand up and speak for myself; I will have the confidence to stand up and make my statement. I was never a person who was deeply involved in politics, but as I get older politics affects my education and future career options. As I saw students talking about their thoughts and how it would affect them as individuals, it had been wondering how meaningful it is to really get the word out there about different attributes. The last person to talk at the end began talking about her career as being a social worker, and some people may see it as a bad career and some people may see it as a great career. Unfortunately, in our world today there will be many