Am I Attending College

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College is something that was always been part of my education it never occurred to me that I wouldn’t attend college, not only because nearly everyone in my family has attended but because college is the first step into building a future career but even if I decide to not continue as a physical therapist in the future at least I will have a much more intensive education than what I would've had if I had just attended high school, the education that I’m having in college is already better the way my professors have been teaching the classes and how they expect us to do the work by ourselves and not have that person carrying us the entire way has already had a great impact on me. What truly motivated me to enroll was the fact that I will be

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