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The Finish Line

 

    Wow this is it… We did it. We got through our first year of college. It went by in a blink of an eye. It was a stressful, emotional roller coaster, but we did it. We made it to the finish line. Summer is a week away. Words cannot describe my first semester, so many emotions and feelings. But let's write about it.. Here goes nothing…

First semester started off with welcome week, probably one of the most unforgettable memories of college. I tried to be myself and not act as the normal shy me and well it led me to an amazing group of friends. These are the friends that are gonna be by my side through the ups and downs. Then we started off to an actual first day of college, definitely not what I was expecting. I finished my first day and had so much time on my hand I had no idea what to do. Well that didn't last long once we truly got into school. But it was a new experience that was so different from high school. I liked it, the freedom, the amount of time we had, just everything. I loved how when I am bored my roommate and I can just walk down a couple doors and we can go annoy and talk to our other friends. It's like a year long sleepover with your best friends. You can always go to them no matter what. Then finals came around the most stressful time of the year but I got through it. We all did, we got through the first semester of college. Then we had almost a month off which was so nice to spend time with family, friends, and just relax.

Then the second semester came rolling around. I had harder classes and nerves built up like in the first semester. But went in with  confidence and ended up doing it yet again. The finish line is a week from now and I have never felt better in my life, I cannot wait to finish my first whole year of college! I learned a lot about time management, my strengths and weaknesses, how to balance certain things, and just how to grow up. College teaches you so much, it may be stressful as hell but it's worth it in the long run. Just remember you need time to grow and develop in a new environment, just get out of your comfort zone, it's worth it :)

    This class ends tomorrow and I am so proud of how much my writing has improved. Through everything we have done in this class it truly taught me how to write like a writer. For that I cannot be more grateful. With the beginning of a microtheme a thing I never heard of in my entire life, but learned and wrote something I never thought I would be writing about but ended up loving every second of writing it. Watching a documentary that I ended up finding super interesting and summarizing to the best of my ability. I wrote about how I felt, how to persuade the readers, and how to build up a logical reason for why this documentary was interesting and you should watch it. To the last big thing of how to argue but in a rational way of using facts information and having the reader truly see your side. To the free writes in the beginning of class that got my brain working and thinking like a writer. Then finally to the blogs that just let me recap the week or the overall feeling of what we were doing and my knowledge of it. This class taught me so much. And for that here is to getting to the finish line, we did it, we finished our first year of college.

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