Personal Narrative: My First Official College Fair

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In may of 2013 I went to my first official college fair. It was called the colleges that changes life fair. A man a few years ago wrote a book on about 300 schools that were known for changing the lives of students. This fair was on the top floor of the Pennsylvania Hotel in New York City. I walked around each one of the close to 200 schools tables looking for my major Criminology. Not one table had Criminology till finally close to one of the last tables I saw the red table cloth and the funky name Lynchburg College. I walk up to the man asking him questions about the school and fell in love at first hearing. The next day I went back to school I was a junior at the time and told my college counselor all the amazing things about Lynchburg College and how that was the school i would be attending in the Fall of 2014. She told me i need to relax that, it was good I knew where I was going but I had to apply and wait to see the facial aid, see the school, get accepted and all the responsible stuff that applying to colleges entails. I responded “you wait Ms. Ally I am Dominican they need me there.” That summer I came to LC for the first time, at first I was unsure about the distance from home but it seemed beautiful the minute …show more content…

And show that past me that it was worth it staying here and that LC can be a home for other hispanics. As i got into my third and final year of college not many of those hispanic friends remained many left because they didn't feel like this was a home nor motivated to get a degree. So i choose to join Alpha Psi Lambda to be able to have a home for future students, to have a motivation to graduate college and to find a way to stay motivated in school. Even though this process is hard ass hell and I think about dropping it everyday I am glad I still stay with it because i feel like this is what the junior in high school me wanted to get out of

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