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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 entercollege 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