Personal Narrative: Roanoke Valley Early College

Well it has been almost 4 months that I have been attending Roanoke Valley Early College. I love it here and I don’t see how anyone couldn’t. So far I have learned a lot about school. By taking time to observe my surroundings and everyone around me, I have learned that everyone in high school is not your friend and that I am learning how to sense a bad vibe before I let anyone get too close to me. RVEC is the only school that has taught me that all teachers are not these people that hate their job because the teachers here including the ones I don’t take yet are always showing us that they really want to be there and help us and teach us. Aside from the people here, I have learned that I will face a lot and that it only gets harder. For example, when I start taking my college classes, some of the upper classmen have told me that these essays will go from 500 words to about 10 pages sometimes. So lately I have been putting extra …show more content…
Recently we finishes out budget project which consisted of our career and how we would manage the money we made from it. While paying off debts, we had bills and needs that had to all be paid for monthly. This taught us that we can’t just use money for everything we want because there are more important things to be taken care of. Before this, we talked about Maslow’s Hierarchy of needs. This chart taught us how we have to put certain needs first such as our physical needs before we can reach the other levels of our needs. It also helped us understand ourselves better. RVEC gives each student the chance to express themselves no matter what class. We have this freedom to believe what we want, to be who want, and to be comfortable with who we are and people there don’t judge us for it either. That’s what I like the most because it’s kind of hard to find kids your age to be on this type of maturity level to