Becoming a teacher actually began in Sherman, Texas during the Austin College years from 1997-2000. Following his sophomore year, Lorenzo transferred to the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP). It was here, in his home town, that Lorenzo continued to work towards the completion of a degree. This degree, the degree of bachelor of interdisciplinary studies, required Lorenzo to intern as a student teacher in a school in El Paso. In the course of the three years at UTEP, subjects as diverse as biology, political science, American and world history, research projects, and teacher preparation courses were covered. The bachelor of interdisciplinary studies degree, earned by Arredondo in May of 2002, allows Texas teachers to teach elementary grade levels through to the middle school grade levels. While Lorenzo was educated in diverse subjects, his specialization was mathematics.

Being an intern was definitely not a new experience, or an unpleasant one at all for Arredondo, in fact he had interned at Jefferson Elementary School and at Piner Middle School while at Austin College. Lorenzo was looking for the experience that would provide him great motivation to continue to teach, and an experience that would help make him a stronger teacher long before he entered a classroom of his own. The years studying to become an educator created many memorable experiences in the college classroom, in an elementary school classroom, and in a middle school classroom.