One of my family members who shared a story was my cousin. Also experiencing her first semester of college, my cousin shared her experiences with her roommate. Although they got along and become close friends, my cousin talked about the difficulty of having a roommate who talks in their sleep.  My cousins goes on to say that her roommate isn’t just an average sleep talker, but someone who rages during their sleep. She told me about a time when here roommate stood up on her bed in the middle of the night and proceeded to yell at someone in her dream.  This was surprising to my cousin, because she considers her roommate to be one of the nicest people she knows. Despite this, my cousin was still frustrated at the fact that her roommate continuously would wake her up in the middle of the night.  In order, to get sleep she had to do something to break her roommates trance.  Although my cousin would occasionally throw a pillow at her roommate to wake her up, she began to play a dog whistle from her phone, a sneaky way of waking up her roommate.  Within the 30 minutes it took her roommate to fall back to sleep, my cousin could get some peace during her sleep. I would say that this is a story because my cousin recollects on a collection of related moments in her life.  Not just because of that, but also because she reflects how she feels during some moments while providing a plot to the story. A story can be like solving a math problem.  You start with a problem or equation, and then show/tell your steps towards the answer.