How To Write A Reflective Essay On Christian University

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When I stop to look back there is more than one event and experience in my life that will influence

my academic work and goals at Colorado Christian University.

The best place to start is back at graduating from high school.Looking back at then and now.I

wish I would have pushed harder to go away to college right out of high school.But, since I didn’t

I have gone from school to school. Only finishing a few. All the technical colleges I finish.

Travel, cosmetology and massage therapy. None of them have been for a degree.

To skip ahead I did take college classes at a community college but, did not finish that either.Then

we moved and I had a child and some other things happen.So years later and things

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