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How To Go Back To College
A couple years back a purchased a computer and I started to play around with it. I spent hours on end teaching myself how to build websites, I built sites for the business I had, online stores to sell products, and many others. I was proud of what I had done and started showing my little projects to family and friends. That’s when I kept hearing “you should go to college for computers, you are really good with them!” After all the compliments I had received that really got me to think about going back to school. I finally decided to go back to school. First things first I’d have to get my GED before I could even go back to college. Not only that, fall college classes started in two months and that was not a lot of time. So I set up the GED
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