Personal Narrative: Moving To School Full Time In College

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The more I thought of the idea of moving the more fear I had, I thought to myself “how are you going to make it on your own, how am I going to enroll for school full time and manage a full time job”? Just thinking of the responsivities I was heading towards freaked me out. Becoming an adult was no joke nor it was going to be fun, wishing to grow up to have more freedom didn’t seem must of a freedom. I ended up going the easy way and enrolled in a community college where I could do general basics without having to move and spending less money in college. With what an average student would take to complete general basics in two year, it has taken me three. Due to the fact that I keep holding off and not wanting to move out of home and having

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