I found both of the articles that we read during this first week of class to be useful examples of narrative essays that describe a significant educational experience. 

In the first article, “How I LEarned to Program Computers”, Feross described the process of learning a skill over a long period of time. He began programing computers at the age of eleven and in his article walks the reader through his process of learning, giving us examples of his work and materials that we might find helpful in understanding how he acquired that knowledge until he himself was a college student. He provided the reader with ways in which they too could learn this skill and all the while emphasizing the importance of practicing. 

The second article, “How I Learned to Live Without Google”, the author chronicles a more isolated learning experience of being google based to being google free. Similar to Feross, he goes step by step over how he frees himself from google by changing his e-mail, his search engine, and his phone. Though I did find some of the detailing to be a bit on the tedious side and at times lost my interest. 

Be it an educational experience that is a accumulated over a long period of time or a much more isolated experience, both of these articles shine light on how to write a narrative essay that conveys that experience with good detail and information that the reader could refer to if they were also interested in a similar learning experience.