Personal Narrative Essay: My First Day Of College

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The night before my first day of college was one of nervousness and fear. I remember laying across my bed asking myself “Is this really what I want”, “Will I be happy?”, or “What if I fail and can’t recover?” All of these thoughts ran through my head at once and it was overwhelming. The fact that I was becoming an adult and would have to make “Adult” decisions scared me to my core and in my mind I wasn’t sure if I was ready take on that type of responsibility yet. Honestly, all of that didn’t matter because my night was shortly lived and before I knew it ….. The first day of college had arrived! BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! The noise from my alarm clock became a sound that I dreaded hearing that morning. My first day of college came with ease. It felt like I was just enjoying the hot summer days, …show more content…
As my mother pulled off the butterflies in my stomach began to flutter uncontrollably, and at that moment it dawned on me that this was really happening, I was really a College Student now. The atmosphere on campus was one of flurrying and flustering. It seemed as if everybody pretty much knew where to go and who to talk to and I was just stuck with the confusion of it all. I was a fish swimming in a pool full of sharks and that made the morning of my first day even scarier and just downright stressful. Remember that 7:45 class I told you about earlier? Well you probably guessed that I was late on the first day! After asking maybe 15,000 different people for directions I was finally able to find my first and only class for the day. Yes, I was late and it scared me because I didn’t want my professor to get the impression that I was going to the student that was constantly late to class. As I walked into class I was expecting my professor to scold me for being late, but to my surprise she automatically could sense the fact that I had no idea where I was going and what a relief that

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