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Personal Narrative: The Freshman Myth

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The freshman myth has really opened my eyes, after all I myself am a freshman in college straight out of high school. The fact that 18 million students in a single year apply for college and 34% of those students drop or flunk out of college is a little scary. I have big goals for life I want to be either a Jag for the Army or a Prosecuting Attorney. The freshman myth is what I was thinking my senior year; piece of cake, easy, not going to have to work as hard as I have the last few years of my life. I learned quick that senior year is a lot more stressful then it sounds. Socially I am not a butterfly, I am not even the caterpillar before the butterfly, I’m the leaf the butterfly is sitting on. The freshman myth social challenges to me goes

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