My history in my grade school and high school tells that I am not a person bound to limitations academically. I have put effort in all my work to have good grades and to achieve high standards for myself. Coming to UW Milwaukee brought those same ideals of myself to the campus feeling I can make a positive influence. …show more content…
I started off strong trying to understand a pattern for my classes and adjustment to my daily schedule like every other student has to do, but I struggled with my studying and time in my day with addition of work. I let myself get too distracted with work as I was worried about financial plans on paying of for school. I let myself be be overloaded in balancing a sleep, study time and personal care. Stress build-up with pressure in my work a attempted to make significant catch-ups in my academic work. These study habits and stress brought me in downfall in my grades. As I was seeing the fall in my grades I grew more worried on now fixing them. As the next semester was in affect I made strides in adjustments to fixing my patterns that kept me from being successful In my classes. With shorter work hours in a week, more hours for studying and additional meeting with my school advisor for academic help, stress and academic struggles still arose for me. This left my grades in very low and unacceptable G.P.A that I was not proud of at all and made me heavily think about changes that need to be done to turn myself back around to the successful student I know I still am.
Family issues emerged that I was not prepared for during my time at UW Milwaukee. My Father had received many medical issues involving his feet these issues were very serious do the impact it was effecting his health