Montgomery College Application Research Paper

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As a child, I used to live with my cousins whom which had recently moved from Vietnam to America. My family had just recently purchased a computer, and one day, I saw my cousins playing this online computer game with colorful characters and flashy animations. “BOOM” was on the main title screen. “Come here, Peter. We want to show you this game we used to play back in Vietnam,” exclaimed my second oldest cousin.
I dashed to the computer with excitement and curiosity and sat with my cousins, who were taking turns to play. “You just move your character with the arrow keys and press spacebar to put down your water balloon,” explained my eldest cousin.
After numerous games, we looked out the window and it was pitch black. We played the same game every single day until we couldn’t see the sun anymore. I became lost and immersed in an
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I was unwilling to accept the fact that I was a student at Montgomery College because I didn’t want to wait two additional years in order to get into the large, renowned university I had always dreamt about. Although I was reluctant to accept Montgomery College as my school for the next two years, Montgomery College had helped me realize that I wanted to be in the STEM field and it was through the help of my professors and classmates that supported me through my stay. I had honestly underestimated Montgomery College as a whole after taking four semesters worth of courses there and it was a major challenge. The professors did not give mercy to students and plainly simulated the university student experience in order to prepare us for a larger, more intensive environment. Though community college was challenging, I felt like it prepared me better for greater challenges, such as university and ultimately the