Personal Narrative: My Fourth Semester As A Proud Rutgers University Student

As I commence my fourth semester as a proud Rutgers University student and employee, I reflect on the friends that have become family along this journey and this great institution that has become my second home. I wasn’t always cheerful and optimistic when a new semester was approaching. Doubt and fear enticed me at the start of every semester in my first year. As a result of being persuaded into a major and career field I wasn’t interested by my strict immigrant parents who wanted the best for their son, my attentiveness and interest in class was often absent. I wasted most of my first year skipping classes, hanging out with friends and partying my weekends away instead of doing school work. In addition to this negligent lifestyle, my knee