Personal Narrative: My Experience With Alcohol

As a freshman in college I was aware of the fact that I would encounter alcohol at some point. I always told myself that drinking was not something I ever wanted to do. My grandfather was an alcoholic and I had seen what it had done to him and his family. However, I got around a group of people whom I called my friends. Before I knew it I was pressured to drink and ended up giving in my second semester of freshman year. I only drank casually that second semester. But when the fall came around that was a whole different story for me. Those same people I continued to hang around and lived with continued to influence me. I began drinking almost every weekend. I started looking forward to the weekend just to be able to get that buzz and feel