Personal Narrative: My 2000 Chevy Tahoe

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Dylon Garrison College Essay Ever since I was a young I always wanted to have a nice, expensive, and brand new car. Just the feeling behind riding in one of these cars alone made me want to get this nice car for myself to drive. My mom had a mustang and a Camaro at one point, and I just loved the feel of riding in a nice car. The day I turned 16 I received a 2000 Chevy Tahoe. The old thing was blue and scratched up all on the body. The interior is another story. It was torn and old, one of the door panels even came off and my back passenger door handle broke off. There are a few good things about my car, don’t get me wrong I was very grateful for getting a free car! The day I got that old beat up Tahoe is the day I decided to go to college …show more content…

My parents wanted me to learn responsibility and hard working. Having to go work late while all of my friends go out and party was rough. While everyone had fun, I had to work. Having to work for what i wanted shaped my life to help me convert in to life as a young adult. I have the desire to be a big man in our economy, I want to go through college, get my business degree and then go out to start my own business to become a young wolf on the market. I want to make my business something useful at the time but not something that other people have, I want to make my business original and the best of the best. I see stories all the time about young people with one dream grow up and become rich just by a simple idea they had. Follow through and show persistence is all you will need in order to achieve your goals. I wanted to go to college from ninth grade, unfortunately I wasn’t given much knowledge about college until last year. I didn’t know I needed my GPA at all in order to go to college and so I was unprepared and have to try to play the catch up game in order to get a high enough GPA to attend college. I have made a lot of progress coming from a 2 GPA to a 3 GPA in one year. My cumulative GPA is a 2.4 though, and I am working hard to get that up. My mom went to college for 8 years and now is making over 100,000 a

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