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Turning Around
Tobechukwu N. Olumba
Professor Burgess
English 105
31 March 2014
Turning Around Doing a lot of work in college is always thought-provoking without a textbook, but with the textbook, it can be the simplest and most effective way to work hard. Sometimes, being on social media after completing some study time is desperately acceptable. It takes about fifteen minutes for some videos, posts, and tweets. I’m usually not in a good mood for those things during my study time before Friday. The more positive and negative things that I have got in my college life, the more of my mind will be expanded. I insisted on graduating from Cerritos High School with a high school diploma in early summer 2010, and I had let my dream be fulfilled in my life as a disabled, senior student. One of my best senior friends during that year did not succeed in reaching her dreams. Her name was Jessica Song, and she went to that school for five years because she had good talents and wisdom. I didn’t know she wanted to stay after her senior year. When I went to Cerritos College in summer 2010, I took placement tests, and it’s a pass/no pass test. It’ll tell me which classes I should take for the spring semester of 2011, and I picked three of them. The three classes that I found were English 20 with Timothy Juntilla, Accounting 100 with Peter Moloney, C.P.A. and Math 110 with Lorena Castillo. In the fall 2010, I went to two classes, one for disabled students who really want to have their own pathways to success and the other is Cardio Training because I achieved PE II at Cerritos High School. Having a spring semester at Cerritos College a year later was bad for me because I wasn’t in my study habits. All I did was daydreaming. I got one textbook, and it’s for accounting, but, on the other hand, I was in a frustrated mood. I considered being drowsy and usually sluggish, and that’s the way my three grades were deficient because I was daydreaming. This makes me be

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