There are going to be times when you look at your life and you think i don't know what to do, i'm stuck, there is no one that can me. and i experienced this when i was nineteen years old and a sophomore at harvard university. and i didn't know it at the time, but i was actually depressed. i should have gotten some counseling and probably some medication. because i kept thinking the most negative thoughts again and again and again. and i thought to myself, there's nobody that can me, this is just how life is, life stinks. and i was convinced there wasn't one person i could talk to on the planet that could make things better. when you're stuck in situations like that, where you feel the negativity, where you feel like you're stuck, where there are voices in your head that tell you nobody can me, that's your signal to go get some . that's when you go talk to a friend, talk to a counselor, talk to your parent. my biggest regret actually from college, from my four years of college, was that when i needed , i didn't ask for and i suffered for a year straight. based on this passage, what should mawi have done?

Read the excerpt from "mother tongue." those tests were constructed around items like fill-in-the-blank sentence completion, such as “even though tom was mary thought he was ” and the correct answer always seemed to be the most bland combinations of thoughts, for example, “even though tom was foolish, mary thought he was ridiculous.” well, according to my mother, there were very few limitations as to what tom could have been and what mary might have thought of him. so i never did well on tests like that. how does tan build a central idea of her story in the excerpt? tan discusses the types of questions on achievement tests to support the idea that the tests limit students’ ability to write well. tan explains a question on a language achievement test to support the idea that the tests should include more interesting content. tan gives an example of her experience with achievement tests to support the idea that they are not always accurate measures of language ability. tan considers how her mother might answer a question on a test to support the idea that nonstandard english limits a person’s ability to communicate.