Personal Narrative: What I Learned In College

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When I ended high school and started to apply for college, filling out the college application essays were tough for me. I thought writing in college would only be harder and more difficult. I psyched myself out, I was already losing the race before it even started. I am one to creatively take risks but this big idea of college had me more nervous than ever. Essays, homework, essays, and tests, this new chapter in my life was starting to look like the end of it instead. I had little confidence in my abilities in reading and writing, English is one of my least favorite and I struggle the hardest in. I wondered how much writing and reading am I really going to have to do. After my first semester of college I had a taste of what college was but
When the teacher started talking he wanted to know what our perception of the class was going to be and what we had learned in 1301. I honestly did say much and stayed quite as other students shared their opinions. It was mostly about our progress we had learned so far and what we still lack. How our negatives could lead to positives. I knew we would write a research paper, but we did more than that. Both 1301 and 1302 go into detail of reading and writing. The way we progressed to writing our paper and things we did made me understand more things. We learn taking reading notes to find quotes in academic articles found in databases. They helped generate ideas and basically write our papers for us. I didn’t know so many things can be found in databases on so many topics and be academically credible. I also learned that the articles you find on databases don’t necessarily have to be related to your topic, the quotes just have to support your theory you’re stating. Its your paper, you’re the writer, you can organize it anyway you want. Everyone writes their own way and perceive reading

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