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Thomas Tsai: Why I Chose To Drop A Class
Have you ever been committed to so many people or have to take so many class for college, that you have to drop a class to make more room and be less stress out? There is a student that has the same problem and his name is Thomas Tsai. He move here from china when he was seven and he plan to major in business accounting. He has overcommitted himself with Five class which is Introduction to Accounting, History of Immigrants in California, Intermediate Math, Study Skills, and Introduction to Reading and Writing. He is also working at his parent book store for about ten to fifteen hours. As Advisor for the college, Thomas has come to me for assistance to ask what class he should drop. I will suggest that he cut back some hour from work to focus on school but his parents need him to help around the book store. That leave him with one chose is to drop a class. I recommend that Thomas should drop his History of Immigrants in California because it is not a requirement to achieve his goal of majoring in Business accounting. I believe he …show more content…
There are downsides to this class like the Introduction to reading and writing there is a lot of work to do in this class like math homework every day there a test every two weeks which is also time consuming. There is always lecture all the time which make him fall asleep in class which make it his least favor class to take. However, this class has some benefit like this class can help him with his major, which you need to know math if he plan to become a business accounting major. If he need assist in this class he has two ways he can get help one is with his friend name Omar which Omar is better in math then Thomas and the other way is his teacher who has office hours he could go to. Thomas may think this class is not important to take but it is if he want to be a successful in his which require lot of

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