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In my senior year of high school I decided to enroll as a dual credit student at a local community college. That summer I spent studying for what was sure to be my down fall the math section on the Texas Success Initiative Assessment or the Math TSI. After weeks of cramming the time came and I took the TSI. Sure enough I failed the math portion. It wasn’t much of a surprise many members of my family had to take remedial math. The surprise came when I found out that I was still eligible to enroll just not in any math classes until I retook and passed the test. So I enrolled in classes and that first semester I took Micro Economies along with General Psychology. While my degree didn’t require two humanities it ended up paying off in the long run. In the beginning things went well. I passed both classes relatively easy and after finals retook the Math TSI. I had been so busy studying for my Econ final I hadn’t studied for the TSI. I thought for sure I would bomb it. To my intense surprise I passed. It turned out that I had learned just enough Algebra in economics to pass. I went to my advisor and she signed me up for Alegbra right away. My advisor was far more confident in my mathematic capabilities then I was and talked me into talking Math 1410, Algebra with a precal track. If I could go back and talk myself out of it I would. Classes started and I was already playing catch up. Struggling to remember and relearn things. It didn’t help that I missed the second week of

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