Personal Narrative: My First Real College

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“Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity,” Martin Luther King once said. We all have once lived in bewilderment of everything and everyone around us, never questioning why people do the things they do, we just make presumptions based on what we know and have seen. An impeccable journey was embarked once I took hold in what I would say my first real college class, in the fall of 2017. It was through my history professor I was finally able to expand my views in the world. A challenge of these beliefs instigate would eventually lead to how misguided I was, not just in academia, but with personal life. In one moment in one of our mandatory class discussions, the history professor asked us what

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