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College Essay About Going To School

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I have made a choice to make a better life for myself and to make better decision and to take school more serious also for the past three years I have done everything I need to so I could be able to catch up in school they told me if I were to stay in public school, I would have to do another three years and I was in the tenth grade at the time, so I was very upset and I wanted to give up so many times but I kept going an also do my best in school I had plans and goals for myself and school was a big obstacle that I tried my hardest to overcome. So I made a choice to find a better way for me to graduate as soon as possible. Back then I did not take school seriously, it was all fun and games and barely showed up and when I did go to school I was always getting into arguments over anything and everything so I would not want to go to school I did not want to get into argument’s I was tired of the drama so I would just decide that I’m not going to go to school. I was good at doing my classwork I just did not like the process I never really understood why we had to go to school for eight hours when I could do all the work in three or four hours that was my mind set I wanted to get out of school, but I was not doing anything about it I was not even going to school every day I was not doing

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