Personal Narrative

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Every student dreams of going to college, but once you are enrolled it’s a challenge to achieve the goal of obtaining the degree. Weather it has been a friend, family member, or even a neighbor they have their ways of handling the conundrum. My friend Kevin, recently graduated this past year, started off in Middlesex for two years, and then he transferred to Rutgers to finish his career. He graduated from Rutgers and now is an accounting major. Kevin is amiable, hardworking, and deft. During his time at Middlesex and Rutgers, he had a job at Apple, went to the gym, participated in many fundraisers, and volunteer at hospitals. All these tasks that he did engendered an issue. The issue, it created was that he had no time to do anything. He would …show more content…
He explained during the interview that “[he] would leave school at 1 and head towards the hospital to help out there and would leave at 4 so [he] could enter at 4:30 at Apple to get out at 11 pm” he would be require to go one place to another starting from school to the hospital and ending his day at Apple. He would do this Monday through Thursday, having no time to do any his work until Friday. On Friday, he would do all his school for the whole week. Doing his homework on Friday made all the work from week, accumulate, however something he excel at was taking the right notes and gathering the main ideas and key points. Although he might have been outstanding at note taking, it was still difficult for him to pass his classes due to the fact that he did not have any time to study for his exams. He did this for a month or so, during that period his grade decrease. On October 2nd , he receive a letter from Middlesex saying he was in danger of not passing. When he receive the letter it stated, “my heart drop and tears rolled down my face” being flabbergasted by the news he knew it was time for him to make amends in his lifestyle. That same day he went to work and sat down with his boss and told him what was going on. Showing his note, he received from the school, the boss comprehended and allow him to have worked only three days a week. With being overwhelmed the first month, Kevin was