Reflective Essay: Entering Into The Fall Of High School
I, Kourtney Brooks, am writing to you in hopes that the decision of me being ineligible for financial aid due to not maintaining a cumulative GPA of 2.0 can be appealed due to extenuating circumstances. Entering into the spring semester, due to my performance in the Fall I knew there was a lot of work to be done. In the Fall, after being out of college for a few years I had to get acclimated to working and going to school full time, not to mention online schooling, which is something I hadn’t experienced before, but due to having to work to take care of myself I made the decision to try it because I know in order to truly excel in life I have to further my education. Nonetheless, I went into the spring semester a stronger student due to the mistakes in the semester that instilled the strength and
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I lost my little sister. I can’t begin to express the pain and the emptiness this makes me feel. She was my best friend; she looked up to me and wanted to be just like me. We were more than sisters, I was like her mother. Our bond was inseparable and now I am trying my best to accept what has happened and try and live life without the person who was my purpose for living. My entire life has changed. While grieving the loss of my sister, I was called on an emergency mission. I’m a part of the Army National Guard and I was selected to travel to Germany on a Security Mission. Of course this was a very tough time for me but I had to sacrifice what I was going through to protect and serve my country. Due to all of these extenuating circumstances it was difficult to perform as strongly as planned this semester, but to make my sister proud I still put forth as much effort as I could being the circumstances. I successfully completed and passed all of the classes this semester when sometimes giving up felt like the easiest thing to do. Unfortunately, it wasn’t enough to increase my cumulative GPA to
I lost my little sister. I can’t begin to express the pain and the emptiness this makes me feel. She was my best friend; she looked up to me and wanted to be just like me. We were more than sisters, I was like her mother. Our bond was inseparable and now I am trying my best to accept what has happened and try and live life without the person who was my purpose for living. My entire life has changed. While grieving the loss of my sister, I was called on an emergency mission. I’m a part of the Army National Guard and I was selected to travel to Germany on a Security Mission. Of course this was a very tough time for me but I had to sacrifice what I was going through to protect and serve my country. Due to all of these extenuating circumstances it was difficult to perform as strongly as planned this semester, but to make my sister proud I still put forth as much effort as I could being the circumstances. I successfully completed and passed all of the classes this semester when sometimes giving up felt like the easiest thing to do. Unfortunately, it wasn’t enough to increase my cumulative GPA to