Personal Narrative: I Walk Into School

I walked into school for the first time as a freshmen and was instantly lost, and not just in the directional sense. In that moment everything that my counselor had told my class came back to me. SAT’s, ACT’s, and AP’s were all random assortments of letters whose spelled-out versions were as foreign to me as the dates that I had to take the actual tests. If someone had told me I had to take my ABC diagnostic exam the next day, you would’ve found me at my dinner table studying that night. I was afraid I would be this lost for the entire year, except I had forgotten that I had accepted an invitation to a new program called the Distinguished Scholars Academy (DSA). My first DSA meeting, which I reluctantly attended, turned my entire year in another