How To Be Successful In College

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While taken high school seriously, I have worked hard to make myself be successful in the future to get to where I want to be when I am older.

I have experienced a time when I was a failure, the time I was a failure was when I took my first ACT test junior year of high school when I didn't even try my hardest because it was really hard and I wanted to just get done with it. But they thing I should have done to be more successful on my Act tests so that my scores are better is to take more time studying for it ahead of time and get my scores up better so I can apply to good colleges and get the degrees I want to be a General surgeon or a ER tech.

This affected me by making myself more confident in myself and showing me that I can even succeed

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