Personal Narrative-Balancing School And Personal Life And Work

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My Day (1st draft) Balancing school and personal life and work is a very tough art to master. With class work homework projects quizzes work and family it is almost impossible. With this being my first time in college in college I am trying to figure out the best times to do things. Like study rather than go out with friend, do an assignment now or later, which test to study for with the limited time in the day given. It is all still a juggling act for me at this point in my college career. But the busiest day of them all in my own personal life is Thursday. Sometimes I do not know how will make it threw my, repetitive, boring and draining, and busy Thursday. My morning is pretty repetitive nothing really changes for me from morning to morning to but I prefer it that way. My day starts off with me getting out of bed at about 8 am for my English class at 10am. I get in the shower and get dressed for school this takes me about 45 min. I go down stairs to …show more content…
This is my computer class CIS 105 class taught by Mrs. Patty Swindle. This class as a whole is honestly pretty boring as is the rest of the middle of my day. We usually just do Microsoft word projects with the teacher that pretty much sums up the class on an academic perceptive. I do enjoy the company of my fellow classmates the people in my class are pretty hilarious. They are just really nice friendly and answer all of my if I have any pertaining to the class. After class it is about 1pm so I go home and relax for about one hour then get ready for work at 3pm. I just change into my work uniform grab my lunch and I am off to work. I work in the Frys Pharmacy in Glendale it is a job I actually enjoy going too. My co-workers I do like to be around as a whole. But my job is pretty tiring having to just stand all day and help people that don’t want you to help them or are just flat out angry they were not able to get their

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