Personal Narrative: My Life After High School

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All throughout my life I've been told high school is were you start to find yourself. I never thought I would find myself in a different high school half way through my short high school career. Going into freshman year at Weymouth high school everything seemed like it was going to go as planned. Everything I imagined high school would be like. I took that for granted. I slacked off in school, I took advantage of the freedom I was given and did the bare minimum so I could pass. Sophomore year nothing changed I did a little better but it wasn't enough. I was failing myself and my family. I knew I needed a drastic change in my life if I wanted to be successful, and have a bright future. Cardinal
Spellman highschool was never really a school that

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