Personal Narrative: My Experience In Baylor School

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Chattanooga, Tennessee. Baylor School. Probasco Hall. Top floor. Room 410. I reach for the doorknob of my new room. While I turn the doorknob, I give the big wooden door a push and I feel the refreshing breeze of a new start and a new reputation. My experience at Baylor School was rather interesting. I met new friends, new dorm parents, and new teachers. With the help of the Baylor community, I felt more like I was at home than at school. During school hours, I took advantage of the different technologies to further my education. These included the use of iPads and the English classrooms that were upgraded to, what the Baylor population called, “the classroom of the future.” This classroom, with white board walls as white as snow, improved …show more content…

My brothers gave me a touch of reality and in return, I did the same for them. The biggest lesson I learned from my brothers was to be grateful and be happy with the opportunities that I have or will have in the future. I became aware of the importance to be grateful when the dormitory mom, Mrs. Montana, made brownies for everyone in the dormitory; and I took two extra brownies. When I noticed two of my nearest friends did not get brownies, they told me that there were only enough for everyone to have one brownie. My ears heard the same thing from the both of them, “Don’t worry about it, I won’t let a brownie get in between us.” But in my head this message came across: “Wow. Good job, this is what being ungrateful leads to.”
Baylor School’s motto, Amat Victoria Curam, is one of my most important sources of inspiration. Translated, “Amat Victoria Curam” means victory loves preparation. Scott Wilson, the headmaster of Baylor School, told the student body one early Monday morning, “Victory does not come without family and Baylor is not Baylor without family.” Without my 31 brothers of the Probasco Hall dormitory, or the caring and supportive Baylor family, I would have never survived my new reality nor been introduced to the true meaning of

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