Narrative Essay Examples for College

challenges a college graduate, such as myself, will face in finding a job in today’s market. Examples of these challenges include lack of experience, the unsure certainties like negotiating salary and benefits, expectations of the job and job requirements, including the lack of direction and possibility of relocating (Peterson, 2016). Organizations now are eliminating entry-level jobs and going to more automated services, making it hard for anyone looking for a job (Weber & Korn, 2016). College…

The path to college has always been a mystery to me, it makes sense since I am a first generation college student. When I was little I did not understand why my parents had minimum wage jobs and not like my fellow classmates’ parents who were doctors, engineers, surgeons, etc. It all falls back to my parents never furthering their education and being stuck raising a kid at a very young age. I am grateful my parents took the chance to cross the border to give me a better life than in Mexico. If…

Skipping out on college is not an option for me; it’s completely out of the picture. Having said that and looked through charts to see the differences of life with and without college, it solidified my decision in going. I have personally seen two of my siblings drop out of college and watched their life unfold. It’s not a bad life, but it’s also not one I would choose to live. I’ve seen both struggle with money and that is an issue I do not wish to have in my future. By going to college, I can…

deciding where to attend college, packing up most of my belongings and moving to a new place with all new people that were so different from where I grew up, I felt exactly like the description in Learn for the Love of God when it says, “I only knew that something exciting and a little terrifying was beginning” (Opitz and Melba 2). My actual expectations for the University of Northwestern, St. Paul were few, but my worries, questions and concerns seemed to be countless. Would college classes be…

Coming into college was a scary thought. I was one of those students who loved high school and would not have changed any of it for the world. I came from a small high school in South Dakota. So, coming into college and having thousands of people compared to maybe two hundred in the whole school was a drastic change. I graduated with a class of thirty-two and that is only because we have four foreign exchange students. Transitioning into college was a huge change that I was not ready for. I have…

August 14th, the day when it really hit me that I would be moving into college in one week. Up until that point I was really really excited! Although I was still excited the nerves started to kick in, I felt that I was not prepared to start a whole new chapter of my life and that there was still so many things that I needed to do, so honestly I started to panic a little bit, but that is just between me and you, no one else knew that I was stressing so bad. The Monday before move in day comes…

When I was younger I was an avid athlete, attempting various sports coupled with learning life lessons that I would never understand. I was an active, eager child ready to take on the world, trying to prove I was invincible. My life revolved around providing good report cards for my parents and waiting patiently for my father to come home from work so we could go to practice together. Unfortunately, most of the lessons and morals I came in contact with would never affect me, for I was not old…

Knowing that all of us just got done with high school is a big relief to me. This is because we can all relate in some way to know that starting college is a huge move in life. Throughout high school we all had are ways. My way was being apart of the softball team and graduating in the honors program. I know my way is different than everyone else 's because not all of us are the same. We all had our things we did well and we all had our struggles too. Even with these well 's and struggles we…

Have you ever just thought about how you would take college life? Today a class had to read an article on preparing for college. The transition to college life, dorm life, can be awfully difficult at times. But once one's use to the dorm life he/ she will not have to worry anymore. On a college campus, all individuals are held responsible for their own actions. A college campus is a place for you to explore new people and find ones that you have the common interest with. There are varieties of…

Being the first in the family to take interest in college is already enough for everyone to push me in the direction to achieving it. I do not want to disappoint them or myself, I want to be on the graduation stage with my hand grasping that master degree. About me, others describe me as opinioned, stubborn and independent. Although I do not want to admit it, these traits all apply to me. Opinioned doesn’t sound as an appealing word to me I should say I like for people to understand my views…