The article Chartering a Course Past Gang Life is about 4 students from Animo Inglewood who lived in a bad neighborhood with very bad influences, gangs. The students began a "clique" that got them into trouble that eventually got one of them shot. After this, they decided to end the clique and focus on their studies. They have graduated and are now going to Cal- State Northridge. My life experience is different to this because I did not grow up in a neighborhood filled with gangs. I will keep getting good grades and I will stay out of trouble in order to go to college. From these students I learned that you have to stay out of trouble.