Failing Classes Analysis

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From middle school to my high school, I was failing all my classes due to my incompleteness of my English skills. I always feel like I missed the most important period to learn English, which is the time when you are a baby. Almost 80% of the students in my middle and high school are Chinese. I hang around with my friends which the American-born classmates call them “Fresh of the Boat”. So I keep having non-English conversations between my friends which turned me lazy and I don’t even bother “cheating” on any of those classes and failed them. So I am now in College, majoring in Computer Science and concentrating in Mobile Software Development. In my first computer science class, I let a female classmate join my final project group after my

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