Personal Narrative: Enrolling Back Into College

Ten years later, who would have thought? Yes, it took me ten years to enroll back into college after obtaining my Associates Degree in Electronic Engineering Technology from Thomas Edison College University. After thinking long and hard about deciding to further my education and to back to school to obtain my undergraduate degree, I decided to enroll in University of Maryland University College. I started off with taking two classes during the spring semester. This class was challenging because I haven’t had a writing college course since 1997! Ten years later, I began WRTG with 12th grade writing skills; now I have learned how to improve my grammar, my writing technique, and structure my paragraphs; I feel like a college freshman again. I’ve had good experiences as well as bad experiences with my writing class.
Having a full-time job, finding time to work out, along with being a wife, mom, student, and school teacher to my children and is not an easy job. Time management is the key to it all when dealing with multi-tasking life events and reality. That something I have had a hard time doing during this semester. In my mind, I would like to start my essay that Monday, complete my homework by Wednesday and proof-read my essay by Thursday. Then Friday comes around and I am cramming trying to complete my …show more content…
I have not written an essay in a very long time, so the first essay was challenging. The great thing about this essay is that I had to write about something personal. Once I figured out what I wanted to write, organizing my essay was challenging. The structure of my paper was all over the place! Even after reading over all the assignments that was assigned during those two weeks, I still didn’t grasp the concept of formatting and organizing my essay. Instead of me embracing a new way or writing, I prefer to stick to free-writing and then spend hours trying to organize my thoughts on several pieces of