High Tech Academy: Student Analysis

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From the months I have spent at High Tech Academy I’ve learned invaluable lessons and picked up skills that have not only helped me with my school assignments, but also equipped me with the resources necessary for the college going process. High Tech Academy has taught me self-discipline and taught me how to prioritize the most important things in my life. HTA has given me hope that no matter my background, it is possible that I will achieve all that I set my mind too. I am more confident than ever that I will go to college and successfully complete my degree. This program has prepared me for real world experiences. I can walk away from this experience with a newfound hope in my future journey.

From the first day of High Tech Academy I could
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I’ve learned that its hard to succeed in life alone, it gets 110% easier when you come together with your peers and combine everyone’s knowledge together. When we all work together, in my opinion is more effective than when a teacher is teaching us, the reason being is that we understand each other and the toughness some subjects can be, while teachers have been teaching for years and have gotten everything down and see it as an easy task. While the group has the same level of experience is becomes easier to come together and help each other with our problems.

My expectations for next year are set high, seeing as how this year has been one of my best memories from high school. I believe that next year will be even more memorable. Even though we have lost 50% of our class from the first day, I can already tell the ones who are left are going to get even more closer than this year, especially with calculus and chemistry
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The most beneficial thing we’ve learned from the program is that the atmosphere is so much like the college atmosphere that there wouldn’t be a problem fitting right in and the adapting portion will be easy. The curricular is counting as a college course, but before this program I was scared out of my mind for college and the classes that came with it, but this program has taught me that if you have the right teacher then everything will be all right, especially with a lenient teacher such as Dr.

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