Personal Narrative: My Community College Experience

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My community college experience has been an uphill climb. When I started College, it was fairly easy because the first two semesters I took core classes and it was revision of everything I had knew from high school. Once the third semester started and I took harder courses such as Honors Biology, it became more of a challenge. Honors Biology is the hardest course I have taken so far, but I look at it as a good experience because for the past two semester, my brain has been working at merely high school level with all those core classes. Now, however, it really feels like I am in college.

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