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Personal Narrative: My Journey To Iowa State
On my journey to Iowa State, I was hoping to make my new friends and memories. Experiences that I would always remember with joy. So far, my adventure has been fulfilled with great experiences. My freshman year of college I notice I had a common routine that I would follow everyday. It consisted of home, walking past the Campanella, and lastly my to go place, Gilman hall. Now, I am a sophomore and I still follow the same routine everyday.

The start of my routine beings with my home, a place where I can be myself and listen to Adel song’s as loud as I want. Where I can let my inter designer decor the apartment to my liking by adding all different shades of grey and arts. This places symbolizes peace and quite. Its where I learned to cook my first meal and bake my first batch of chocolate cupcakes. Every morning I leave my home, I know that when I come back I will be welcome with loud barks and waging tails from my two dogs Jasper and Oliver.

After, arriving at campus I walk to my classes passing through the Campanile, it is not only a historic landmark of Iowa State, but to me it hold a personal meaning. Going back to my first day of college I noticed the
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Science Bound, is a premier pre-college program here at Iowa State to increase diversity. That program was the start of my vision to achieve a higher education. This is my to go place at campus, because the staff have been my mentors, supporters, and family since freshman year of high school. They made my college transition easier, by making me feel at home and loved. During first year of college, I would spend the majority of my time there studying knowing, I would alway accomplished my work on time. Till this day I always sit in the same chair everyday, looking over the window watching the season change. Sitting there bring back many memories from my freshman year. I hope to sit there everyday until my

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