Student Flaws

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As a student, everyone excels at certain aspects of academics and has deficiency in other facets and I am no different. The flaws that sometimes create an obstacle for my educational goals are as follows: I'm a procrastinator and I get distracted, I seem to get some sort of thrill from having to rush everything. The strengths that help me as a student are the facts that I grasp concepts and formulas pretty quickly. I've already taken the proper steps to mitigate the effects of my flaws. At the beginning of the week, I uninstalled all the video games I had installed in my computer and I also blocked all the websites I tend to visit that are unproductive. In addition, a calendar with specific timelines of my free time has been efficiently categorized

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