Personal Narrative: My Journey At UC Merced

As I began my journey at UC Merced, I was a bit scared as what to expect. After getting through the first two weeks of school, I knew I was up for the challenge. I just had to focus and priorities my tasks. Since I live off-campus it was a bit difficult to make friends, so I felt a bit lonely. I decided to take initiative and attend the various events the school has to offer to meet and interact with new people. Attending the events the school had to offer, resulted me in meeting some people who shared many things with me. All of us just clicked and became friends in no time we all knew this year would be epic. Still I was a bit lonely because I would only see them when I went to school. Most of my friends at my hometown left far away for college and said they weren’t coming back for a while. I didn’t let that stop me from having some fun, so we decide to join the Intramural Soccer Tournament at the school.
I will be setting up and appointment to meet up with my professor and just talk about the difficulties I face in the classroom, and hopefully I get guided towards the right direction. I know that nobody is going to be holding my hand all the time, therefore I have seek out help whenever I need it. I’m still getting used to from the transition of high school to college. The way I try to view this first semester is to treat it as a learning experience. I knew I was going to have difficulty in at least one of my classes, and now I have a better understanding on how I can handle the situation. I will always ask questions whenever I run into problems because that is one thing I see students are a bit shy or uncomfortable doing. I will not let stress take over me as well because that can only bring problems. A simple way to prevent that is to always be on top of my A game in all my classes so I won’t have to