Nervous at the prospect of entering my first college class, I take a deep breath and enter the room. As I breathe in, I imagine a huge auditorium with numerous students focusing on a single professor lecturing in a language no one in the room understands. After class, the professor leaves to resea..

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Although I am not certain of the course of my career just yet, I am certain that I want to learn more about various subjects from languages to social sciences. I want to educate myself more to find out where my aptitude really lies. One aptitude, however, I am certain of is my “proclivity&rd..