Narrative Essay About My Dream College

Heck, That’ll Do As I sit in class, the teacher 's words pierce my ears making them seem as if they are bleeding. I gnaw on the end of my pencil to pass the time and ease my anxiety to leave this class. All I’ve been thinking about for the past few month is the word every senior hates, college. All my friends are accepted into the colleges of their dreams, so why aren’t I? It seems like eons have passed since I finalized my college applications.
Waiting there hoping class will end soon, I decide to pull out my phone and proceed to scroll through the latest Twitter feed. While I continue to scroll through I see several posts of my fellow peers announcing their acceptance into colleges. I’ve been waiting months to receive my letter back from Philadelphia University, my dream college, but it seems as if they have left me in the, rotting alone. Philadelphia University has been a dream of mine ever since sophomore year, attending school there fulfill the dreams of my hopefully exciting future. I stare at the clock and it appears in my mind that it has frozen, and the only thing continuing to move is my teacher’s irritating mouth. Then, my phone vibrates, it seems as if it hit play on the world and everything around me started moving again. I slowly pick up my phone and turn it face up. I read the notification, it a text from my …show more content…
Before I exit my car I take one last deep breath in preparation for entering my home. I walk in with a smile glowing across my face, I feel on top of the world, but then I see the look on my mother’s face. It looks as if she wants to swaddle me like a baby so she can protect me from all the evil in the world. I look into her eyes and exclaim, “Heather, what’s wrong, I made it into Philly aren’t you proud of me?” Her head turns in confusion and her face loses all emotions like she had lost everything she loves in