Personal Narrative: How Attending College Has Changed My Personality

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Attending college has changed my personality in positive ways. For one thing, I have become more confident. In some classes I have to do speeches, I am nervous when I have to do it, but in the end when you finish the speech and realize I did a good job, it raised my confidence. Also, I found my true self in college and I was able to find a group of people like me that I feel comfortable around and make me feel proud. A second effect is that I gained more knowledge. For all the variety of classes I take in college, it expands my knowledge on daily things and for what my future career may be. To end with, I become more adventurous. Seeing different cultures, styles, hearing what people have done, it makes me want to see the world, try new things,

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