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597                                        <img class="image-3 hidden-tablet hidden-phone" src="https://www.gaston.edu/wp-content/themes/gaston/images/3-students.png" alt="3 Students - Click here to start building your future">
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605                    <img class="image-1 hidden-desktop hidden-phone" src="https://www.gaston.edu/wp-content/themes/gaston/images/male-student-tablet.png" alt="Male Student - Click here to start building your future">
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612                    <span class="top"><span>Why is Gaston right for me?</span></span>
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659                                                <option value="27">Dallas Campus</option>
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714                                        <a href="https://www.gaston.edu/event/spring-2023-registration-begins-returning-students/?instance_id=1119">
715                                            <span class="date">
716                                                <span class="month">Oct</span>
717                                                <span class="day">6</span>
718                                            </span>
719                                            <span class="text">Spring 2027 Registration Begins: Returning Students</span>
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723
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725                      
726											
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728                                        <a href="https://www.gaston.edu/event/college-closes-at-5-p-m/?instance_id=1120">
729                                            <span class="date">
730                                                <span class="month">Oct</span>
731                                                <span class="day">15</span>
732                                            </span>
733                                            <span class="text">Student Break (10/15-16)</span>
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736                                    </li>
737
738                      
739                      
740											
741                                    <li>
742                                        <a href="https://www.gaston.edu/event/faculty-student-break-16/?instance_id=1130">
743                                            <span class="date">
744                                                <span class="month">Oct</span>
745                                                <span class="day">19</span>
746                                            </span>
747                                            <span class="text">Faculty/Student Break (10/19-20) &#8211; College Closes at 5 p.m.</span>
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749                                        </a>
750                                    </li>
751
752                      
753                      
754											
755                                    <li>
756                                        <a href="https://www.gaston.edu/event/spring-2023-registration-begins-new-students/?instance_id=1121">
757                                            <span class="date">
758                                                <span class="month">Nov</span>
759                                                <span class="day">3</span>
760                                            </span>
761                                            <span class="text">Spring 2026 Registration Begins: New Students</span>
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764                                    </li>
765
766                      
767                      
768											
769                                    <li>
770                                        <a href="https://www.gaston.edu/event/college-transfer-fair-10-a-m-1-p-m/?instance_id=1148">
771                                            <span class="date">
772                                                <span class="month">Nov</span>
773                                                <span class="day">10</span>
774                                            </span>
775                                            <span class="text">College Transfer Fair (1-3 p.m.)</span>
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915                            <h3><a href="https://www.gaston.edu/blog/2026/07/29/jenna-parker-2026-outstanding-graduate-of-respiratory-therapy/" target="_self">Jenna Parker – 2026 Outstanding Graduate of Respiratory Therapy</a></h3>
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1204            scr.setAttribute('async', 'true');
1205            scr.type = "text/javascript";
1206            scr.src = host + "/j/roundtrip.js";
1207            ((document.getElementsByTagName('head') || [null])[0] ||
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1209        };
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1213
1214
1215
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Line numbers count LF bytes from the start of the resource, as the search results do. Vendor segments are library code the classifier recognised; they are stored but not indexed. Bytes are shown as Latin1 characters, one per byte.