Interview With A Pre-Calculus Teacher

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I decided to interview my pre-calculus professor Sarah Fritch for this response. Her first year of college was enjoyable, she initially started as a chemistry major, and in her second semester she decided that she didn’t like chemistry. She changed her major to math because liked calculus class. She was also involved with Christian ministry. I expected her to be a major of some sort of math because that’s what she teaches and it fits her personality, and I found it relieving that she changed her major because it reminds me that even professors are human.
She went to SHSU for both her bachelor’s and master’s degree because her sister was at Sam and she had already become rooted in the community. I thought this was a good reason to stay at

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