Personal Narrative: If I Take College

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If I made the same choice it could have killed me. As a kid I’m always curious and wanted to explore everything. When I was in elementary school, I skipped lunch and went around my school to look for anything that is odd and interesting. I would look under the trees, around the brushes, or dig up the grass. My curiosity never stops it’s still in me to this day. There are times I thought about not taking college because I can feel the heavy weights on my shoulders thinking about it. Personally, I’m that kid who is impatient, curious, stubborn, and does not want to be in one space all the time (I think college is very compressing). One day I came up with this thought “what if I don’t take college?”. The idea came to me when I was fourteen. My

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