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Personal Narrative: Operation Upgrade
The betrayal I felt as the rude sound of my alarm jolted me from my sleep on a summer morning caused me to let out a guttural cry into my pillow. “If I want to help people should it not be from the good of my heart and not just an obligation? Here I am at seven o’clock on the first Monday of June preparing to go to school as if it were August already,” I thought. I arrived at Jesuit against my will praying that the first day of Operation Upgrade would pass quickly. Operation Upgrade is a five-week minority outreach program through which Jesuit provides economically disadvantaged sixth through eighth graders from the New Orleans community with tutoring for the High School Placement Test.
I quickly learned both Operation Upgrade’s pitfalls and
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