My Experience With Community College

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When I graduated on June 2012, I had no idea what to do, I missed a whole semester (Fall 2012) because nobody helped me with college applications and didn't know how to apply for community college. When I started community college (Spring 2013) I was placed placed in really easy classes which I really didn't need to transfer and was also not interested in. Unfortunately, during my first two-three years at community college years, a lot of things happened. My father got into an accident at work, where he amputated his fingers when he was chopping wood with a table saw. That made the first two years of college really hard and wasn't really paying attention in class because I kept thinking on the situation back home. My dad was the only one working

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