Personal Narrative: My Life At Kent State College

At the age of 17, Tom was enrolled at Kent State College to major in health and physical education and minor in biology and later went to Sacramento State to get his masters in school administration. While in college, my grandpa was unsure about what he wanting to do for a living but knew after he got a D in accounting, he did not want to sit behind a desk for his life. Tom joined a fraternity where he partied hard and became more confident and outgoing but also drank a lot of beers that later put him on academic probation. Tom didn't try very hard at school but picked up many part time jobs to teach him real life lessons. One job he had was he would referee children's sports games at the local park and make $5 per game. He liked this job because he got to learn about …show more content…
Tom valued social skills more than academics. My grandpa met my grandma through friends in college and went on what they thought would be a blind date until they recognized each other. The date was at a college formal dance as they learned they were not great dancers. On the first date my grandpa knew that Donna was the one that he wanted to spend the rest of his life with, “I told your grandma on the first date I wanted to marry her” Tom tells me. My grandma smiled and they dated 6-8 months until they eloped with a used car, a $6 wedding ring and just enough of everything else. They lived together in a basement apartment while they both were still in school. My grandma was not a very experienced cook so the first time she used the oven, she lit the match and flames went everywhere and scorched her eyebrows and just about burned down the apartment. Tom had told me that once he and my grandma got together, he got off probation and was motivated to do well in school. During the 1960s was a good time period for my grandpa to be a young adult because of expanded cultural and political trends that has shaped his personality traits