Personal Narrative: Why I Drop Out Of College

I always thought that college was going to be how it’s portrayed in movies, but that did not happen. My freshmen year of college, I was doing so well the first week of class (of course everyone does), then I started to have problems in my math class and other classes which made me want to quit school. I went from having all A’s and B’s in high school to having two F’s in two college classes. The reason why I had such a hard time adjusting to college was because I simply did not know how to manage my time. For example, I would privilege for work that wasn’t even completed yet. While everything was falling down on me I would sit at home and think about ways to improve, but for some reason I thought that having a college education didn’t matter. I had already made up my mind that I was going to drop out of college. Despite my frustration, I always thought of ways to improve my situation at the time. I got off all social media and I went ghost as us college students like to call it. I stopped privileging myself so much and started to focus more on school. Changing my ways to improve my situation showed that I still cared about having a higher education. By the end of the semester, I had all A’s and B’s …show more content…
In chapter eight of A Guide for the Godless: The Secular Path to Meaning, Andrew Kernohan who specializes in philosophy stated “Emotions have the right structure to be a guide to what can matter. If we love, hate, admire, or despise something, then it matters to us” (Kernohan, 62). I agree with this quote because it is logically correct. It is illogical for someone to have an emotional connection with something they claim they do not care about. It simply makes no sense. Kernohan’s quote proves that we have emotions towards everything we do, and that still counts regardless of whether the emotion is positive or