Personal Narrative: My Time At Indiana State

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My time at Indiana State was not as successful as I would have liked it to be. When I first arrived Fall of 2013
After the end of the Fall 2013 semester at ISU I was put on academic probation, it did not come as a surprise but was still a shock. I thought I could breeze through college like I did High School, never studying and not putting in a ton of effort but still make decent grades. What I did not expect was the challenge I was given by ISU, I could not skate through my education like I had in the past, when I was at ISU I needed to be an active participant. So during the Spring 2014 semester I did just that. I was more involved in my classrooms and in the learning process, I applied myself more than I ever had and went to the library

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