Personal Narrative: Transition From High School To College

Ralph Waldo Emerson once said ‘do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail’. This represents the transition from high school to college in my opinion because as new college students we are all starting our new path. Throughout school our path was laid out for us, now it’s our turn to take control and go where we want to in life. I have since ‘found my true personality’ since starting college. In high school I was still figuring out who I was an accidentally got stuck as something I wasn’t. (shy, quiet, etc..) Once in college I realized it was a fresh start and I could unleash my personality as there were no past experiences my new peers would’ve had with the other me to even compare the ‘real’ me to. This made it so much easier to be more …show more content…
It was still there in the beginning just waiting to be free. Taking this into mind, I want to be good at everything. What I mean is I don’t want to be perfect at anything, I would rather be above average at everything. That’s how it’s been my whole life, I’ve never been the smartest, fastest, or best athlete, but I’ve almost always been above average at anything I try. I used to wish I could just be perfect at one thing, but like the cliché says, the grass is always greener on the other side. Talking to fellow athletes or students that were perfect and known for being extraordinarily great at one thing, wished they were just average or above average at other things since their one really good attribute or talent was all they were known for. I will use this to my advantage with the career choice I picked. I am undertaking the path to be a physician assistant. This comes back to being above average at everything. As a physician assistant I am not a doctor tied down to one specific field of medicine. They’ll have to be absolutely perfect at one thing, I have to be well rounded and good with all