Personal Narrative: My Greatest Accomplishments

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My biggest accomplishment is completing Early Academic Outreach Program UC Berkeley Summer Sessions because it gave me a sense of a college environment which many students don’t experience until they enter college. It gives participants full access to the resources which Berkeley provides to its students. The class that I chose was Classic Myth because I found an interest of many Greek heroes before entering this class. It required students to read six books in the span of six weeks. Through my participation in the program, I have developed numerous skills. The most valuable that I have developed is time management because I had no sense of time management before participating in this program. I used to do all my homework at the last minute,

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