Personal Narrative: My Early Life

Life is a game of choice and chance. No one is able to control who his or her parents, and that is the chance portion of life. In contrary, everyone has the choice of learning from his or her childhood and making the rest of life the best he or she can make it. I have my very own story. The happenings of my early life has shaped me into the person I am now. It has also convinced me what I want to do after my highschool career. Through enduring many obstacles, observing my strengths and weaknesses, leading and giving back, and working hard to acheive goals I now know what I will choose to do.
I have been through a lot of struggle in my early life. Being through two divorces before the age of fifteen and being an eye witness to my father having a heart attack was not easy. The first divorce that I encountered, between my biological parents in 2003, is not very vivid in my mind, but the struggles in the years following the divorce, that my older brother of three years had, are situations …show more content…
I have always had an interest in buildings and their construction. Ever since the fourth grade I have had my eye on becoming an architect. Being able to see a final result when I work is very important, and in architecture each step of the building process will be visible. I believe that this career will also allow me to continue to serve the people around me. In the long term I would like to open my own firm and do some general contracting work as well. To obtain my dreams I am going to attend the University of Nebraska in Lincoln. The structure of the program is very broad and will be very easy to expand from. I will be able to get a lot of engineering knowledge from the architecture portion and the first year will allow me to get a better feel for design. The College of Architecture at UNL seems to be a very good fit for what my goals are now and also will be able to accommodate for any change that I will