Personal Narrative: Where I Grow Up In High School

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Every teenager has experienced the important and terrifying question, what do you want to be when you grow up? For me I had no idea, and as I tried to figure it out I came to realise there are endless possibilities when it comes to the future. I loved the idea of being a teacher, but what made me set on architecture was the architecture classes and technology classes I took in high school. It was the only place where I felt like me. So I pursued it. I applied to two school for architecture and two schools for general arts to become as a back up. When I got my responses I was disappointed to find out I did not get it in. While I knew it was a competitive program, a lot of self doubt hit me and I knew I could have done better. I had failed so

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