Personal Narrative: Everything Happens For A Reason

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Everything happens for a reason
I lived my whole life in Mexico a place where you can meet good friends and, most of them people don’t have nothing not even a dime on them, but they are very humble. I won’t deny that Mexico is also a country where there is so much evil where even walking down the street you can feel yourself unprotected from their own people and the government itself, but nevertheless Mexico is like a playground where you can spend all your time having fun. To succeed in Mexico is very difficult because it firmly depends on two things, time and place, if you don’t have at least one of them your probabilities of success are low. My conflict arises when I had to choose between a better life which was coming to the US and what at the time was my current which was pretty much my whole life, friends, education, etcetera. “Everything happens for a reason” my dad always says, so in order to be successful I had to face the adversities of life and see whether if my current life was better for me or the future life that was waiting for me somewhere else.
It all began five years ago I was finally done with high school. I began looking for a university to study what at
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It just so happens that in order to get to the university in Mexico is a little different from the United States, in order to enter you must pass an entrance exam, this exam is not to placed you at some level like in college, no this exam is like a competition, whoever gets the most points gets in, which I always find unfair, because I have seen many capable people taking that exam and not getting in because of not meeting that required points or most commonly the entrance capacity has come to an end and there is no way to accept anyone else. I have to mention that there are two types of universities in Mexico, public and private, so there was the possibility to pay, but not many have the money to do

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