Personal Narrative: Wilmington Early High School

Before attending Wilmington Early College High School (WECHS), I was not satisfied with my personality, nor was I happy with the way I was perceived by other people. Most would think that I should have been confident because in middle school I was in the AIG program. However, I never truly felt satisfied with myself. I always got good grades, but I never felt like I earned good grades. Although I was making straight As and Bs, it was always relatively easy to earn those marks in middle school. I never encountered any challenging work in school. However, the course load at WECHS was much more rigorous and challenging. All of the classes were AP and Honors level, so I had to take harder classes, in half the time in comparison to other high school students. I knew that If I was going to become a proper college student, that I would need to self-advocate in order to pass all of my classes. This experience taught me how to become independent enough to ask for help, to sit down and study instead of procrastinating, and to improve …show more content…
My mother raised my siblings and me as a single parent, and often our time was spent with one another. Our family dynamics only provided me with the opportunity to interact with other family members with limited interactions with people outside of our family. Even as I feel that this may have supported my journey to college, it, however, may have stunted my social skills. I feel that I did not develop the proper understanding of proper body language and social cue. Due to this, I had developed severe social anxiety. However, during my time at WECHS, I have been much more successful at developing my social and networking skills. My high school and college classes, especially English and my Communication courses, required me to work in collaborative groups to converse with others that have different perspectives and experiences than my