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Essay On Personal Experience

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“Sometimes the things that make us grow personally cannot be found in books nor are they taught in schools. What makes strong, makes us better people are the experiences that we encounter in life. Whether they are made up of happy thoughts or bad and horrible incidents, still they teach valuable lessons in life.” - Unknown One of my favorite quotes. A quote I by, though I don’t know who said it I do know I am a person of personal experiences. I agree solely with the statement experiences help shape who we are as people. Bad or good they are big teachers. My beliefs on the matter is what led me to online schooling. I personally believe that school does not teach life, experience does. I am not implying that education isn’t important because …show more content…

I truly feel free to express myself my self without any dress codes, guidelines and certain time schedules. Or physical body telling me how to do something. I know how to follow rules, however I would consider myself a person that is uncontrolled, and as you can imagine that has caused issues in the past. This way is better because it limits room for trouble. I have been considered a ‘troubled student’ in the past, not academic wise but behavioral wise. Which has led me to the experience portion. I have experienced a lot throughout my life, mostly being negative but sometimes the negative things that can occur in life are the ones that help you learn the most. As long as you learn from it and use it to better yourself as a person it was something that happened for a reason. What really led me to where I am now was a was an incident that happened a few years ago. An incident that led me to 40+ days in alternative school. My time there truly was a time of learning and growing. I met so many kids there that were branded as ‘future menaces to society’ as one student told me a guidance counselor had once called him. But deep

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