My Appeal Please reconsider my appeal for the Emerald Scholarship. I know that my requirement for the GPA has to be a 2.75 or above, but my Fall-Winter 14 semester school year, I was in a very depress mood. Even though my fall semester wasn’t as bad as my winter, I knew around that time things were getting rocky. Once winter semester did hit, my depression took over my spirit, which also affect my class work. I was still going to class’s every day and being on time, but my focus was never in my class work anymore. My focus was more on my personal life stressing out on how to balance, school work, and my job, taking care of my family, my relationship, and other personal issues. The biggest issue was being overwhelmed for work because I was an independent student. I felt it was difficult to talk to any one, I always have so much clutter inside my head. So talking to anyone was out the picture because of myself thing of so much, I couldn’t have just talk about one specific subject at a time. I was feeling sick every day, hopeless, gave up on everything that was going good for me, I forgot about the most important, which was school and keeping up my GPA.
As of now my GPA is a 2.57 from a 3.6, and to see that is terrible. My depression took over me and I have picked myself back up. I was so in the dark to actually look at all the resource that was around me to get help, I ignored it. Even though now I’m out of that depress mood, to prevent for it happening again, I will use all my source even better, I will talk to someone, have a meeting with my professors at least twice a week, go to SI sections, and use the library more wisely. Overall I will work on preventing depression, I know it have infected my education and put me down the wrong path, it is was my first and will be my last time it ever happens again. I’m very positive that I’m going to bring back up my grades