My education career has been like mathematics, it has not been easy nor has it gotten easier. Simply at some points I just get used to it. When I was younger I was not a great student, I was actually
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Category: Unit 1
Writing Task Mentor Quote – Raul
“Don’t sell yourself short” was something I always told growing up. I never really had anyone guide me through life before. Despite having brothers growing up, I was always on my own, but they were both very distant because I
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Writing Task Saved –Lisa
My gymnastics club saved me in high school. I was a nerdy brainy kid who spent lunch time in the library. I was never part of the popular group, but my sophomore year, my social cachet changed all due to
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Single Story — Student Amadou
My Working Outline:
I. INTRO — My two cultures: African Muslim and American
II. Scene of being in Guinea with my grandma when I was 3
III. Moving back to NYC and being in American school
IV. First grade in
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Mentor Quote — Student Meryam
OUTLINE (working outline — might change)
I. INTRO — Quote from my mom criticizing my friends
II. Describe my friend group
III. Scene of school day when Maryam took pills ending in hospital and police call to Mom
IV. My
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Writing Task Mentor Quote — Lisa
“Lisa, you are a very good student. You can study anything–even if you don’t like it.”
I will always remember these words spoken to me by my father. We were sitting at the dining room table. Just my dad and
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Announcements
Thursday May 23
Grades are posted in Open Lab Gradebook and in CUNY First. Please scroll down to grading breakdown which also appears in the Syllabus page. You will find a Teacher End Letter at the end of your Final
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Mentor Quote — Student Adrian
“I wish you would apply yourself more. Not just in my class, but in everything. You are capable of doing great things.”
I had been called an underachiever by my teachers in the past, but it had never meant anything.
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Mentor Quote — Lisa
“Lisa, you are a very good student. You can study anything–even if you don’t like it.”
I will always remember these words spoken to me by my father. We were sitting at the dining room table. Just my dad and
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Resilience — Lisa
The time I dropped out of medical school was one of the lowest moment in my life. It had happened before. So I felt like I was in a familiar place. Something kept telling me I did not belong on
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