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Personal Narrative: The Birdfeeder Project
Isn’t it funny how a small seemingly insignificant experience can stay with a person? Almost everyone has that childhood memory that to this day and has influenced their development. My memory that has influenced me, is the memory of my third grade birdfeeder project. This small seemingly ordinary experience has changed me and my work habits.
If there is one thing to know about a third grade me, it’s that I was a master procrastinator. Nothing was ever important enough to start in advanced, and this really came back to bite me when I got my bird feeder project. I was to write a how-to paper on a topic of my choice. When reading through the lists of possible topics, I remember triumphantly thinking “A bird feeder will be easy”. And it would

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