Personal Narrative: What Beast Should I Become

What Beast Should I Become?
There comes a point in life in where we have to make the most astronomical decision of our young lives. What college will we choose to attend? This question is entirely more complex than some of our young minds can fathom. Here is the biggest opportunity of our lives. Our opportunity to travel to new places, meet new people, and an opportunity for our social lives to explode. With all this excitement that lies ahead what are we waiting for? Indecisiveness, we do not know where we want to attend. There are a few ways that we can start choosing a college for ourselves. The first option is choosing a college that a friend elected to attend. Why do we do this? It’s understandable that we do not want to be alone, or step …show more content…
Rather it is from our parents or guardian, brother, sister, or any other significant person in an individual’s life. What is more astonishing is that we often peer pressure ourselves as well. If a person enrolls into a college or university due to peer pressure they just possibly made an astronomical mistake. We do not have any information about this educational institution that we just join, and it is a little too late to start browsing for the institution’s information. This is a terrible choice for many reasons. Yes, some parents want their son or daughter to graduate from the same college they did, they call it family tradition. May I propose a question to the previous statement? Why should we go to a school for another person reason? If student’s parent graduated from a specific university; that student is not obligated to enroll at the same university as their parent. Even if this university is a very prestigious institution; that do not mean that this institution will match this scholar’s personality and interest. This is one of the biggest decision of our lives, and when the dust settles we are the one that have to attend this university not our parents. What if we want to go to school where our friends are going or to our favorite college football team’s university? Both of these situations is describe by the same phrase, self inflicted peer