Academic Probation

I would first like to thank you for taking out time from your day to reading my appeal on my academic suspension. Entering college I knew that it would be a challenge and that I would need to put in more effort than I did during my highschool years if I wanted to perform at an acceptable academic standard.. When I entered NJIT I struggled to follow my plans and lacked the overall organizational skills which eventually lead to my own demise seeing as I ended up being placed on academic probation. After failing the semester I knew I wanted to perform better academically and to do so. I would need to change the way I did things concerning how I approached the school. I changed a lot in the way that I approached the second semester such as going to tutoring and sought

Due to my naiveness I believed that all student must do everything themselves and it is that looking for help was a sign of obsolete productivity which is not the case at all. I now know that if I had made better use of the resources available I would have performed much better than I did. Another factor that came into play is mentality. I feel that I was not following through with my planning and doing well on exams because I was too focused on the pressure I had put on myself. I wanted to succeed and make my parents proud but I was blinded by my own pride and anxiety which lead me to not handle stress in the right way. I fully take responsibility for my failure in school and accept the consequences, but I also know