Personal Narrative: My Collegiate Experiences

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Prompt: In 500 words or more, describe your collegiate experience thus far. How has this experience and the knowledge you've gained influenced what you plan to study? How have they influenced your decision to apply to St. Edward's? Ever since I was a young student, teachers knew that I was not a normal kid. These teachers saw qualities in me that they could not see in many students at that age level. They saw a child who had a profound love to know more and had the ambition of a decorated Olympic swimmer to learn not just the material that was being taught but why it is being taught and how I can I use this information to make people’s lives better. Fast-forward to today, and you can clearly see that not much has changed except my determination to learn and my love to help others has done nothing but expanded. …show more content…

In just a year of attending these schools I have been able to recognize the evil that lies within the darkness of many business activities and I would like to branch out and try to be the one good guy that will try to help others instead of throwing people under the bus for my own selfish benefit. Listening to cases where white collar workers deceiving people and steal from not only people but from their very own firm is what has inspired me to pursue a career a degree in Forensic Accounting. Being a man who has came from nothing and has worked hard for everything I have today, it is infuriating hearing about the millions of dollars that “mysteriously” go missing. With a refined education from a prestigious school such as St. Edwards, I will most certainly be able to find the real crooks of America who for a long time now have easily gotten

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