Personal Narrative: Transitioning Into College

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College is place where there are so many different people and different things to experience. Sometimes kids leave home and, their parents aren’t around to be able to watch every move or able to tell them what to do. College gave me a chance to figure out who I was as a person and what my strengths and weaknesses are as a person. Transitioning into college has could me to change mentally, physically, and emotionally. Coming in to college I had a mindset of negativity and didn’t have any meaningful goals or goals that helped shape my future. At the beginning of the semester I used to doubt myself in my schoolwork like in my English class I thought that my papers weren’t going to be good and that I would fail them. As I thought so it ended

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