Academic Autobiography Essay

1. Academic Autobiography Essay
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Juan Galindo
Professor
Student Success
September 9, 2013
My Academic Autobiography Thinking about college and your future career can be very
overwhelming at the beginning. There's so much to consider when it comes to getting ready for
college: where to go and what to study. I've heard it said that sometimes a student will enter college
fully aware of what they want to do in life, and doggedly reach their undergraduate goal after four
years of diligent study.
My college career didn't start off on the best footing. I was a dreadful student in high school,
chronically absent, and not doing homework even when I could be bothered to attend class. My
Arlington, Virginia high school was competitive, and my...show more content...
After a year of this mediocre performance, the worst possible thing happened from the perspective
of academic success: I fell in love with a graduating senior. She was returning to her native
Delaware on graduation, and with the finely honed reasoning that only eighteen year olds can
display, I decided the obvious response on my part was to drop out and go with her.
Rather than bore the faithful reader with the details, suffice it to say that over the course of the next
ten years, while moving around the East Coast, I amassed piecemeal credit from Shepherd College,
Virginia Commonwealth University, Northern Virginia Community College, North Carolina
Wesleyan College, and Strayer University. Meanwhile, I had changed majors from Music
Composition to Music Education to Communications before finally becoming involved with
information technology.
The '90s were a great time for technical people. No one cared about college degrees, as demand for
competent labor was too high for employers to care about anything other than ability. After the burst
of the dot–com bubble, however, things changed completely. One of those changes was my
attitude toward completing my degree. Since the ads for jobs in my field had gone from saying
"Associate degree preferred" to "Bachelor's degree required, Master's preferred," it seemed that the
time had come to finish what I had started. There
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