Personal Narrative: My Challenges Of AP Chemistry

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Challenges, Everyone’s day is filled with them. For some, their challenge is getting up in the morning, and for others, it’s getting a promotion. These challenges are what shape our character. My biggest challenge thus far has to be AP Chemistry. It was my first AP class, and I was not prepared for what came with it. Throughout my school career everything was pretty easy. I never had any homework, the work was not very difficult and I could do it on my own. Not in AP chemistry.

AP Chemistry is the class you take because regular chemistry was easy enough and you really didn’t want to take biology or anatomy. Besides, most of my friends signed up for the course so why not join them? I’ll be honest, I didn’t really think taking this class through

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