International Student Response Essay

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First of all, I would like to request you friendly not to forward or circulate this e-mail to faculty members/staff. I have experienced that in an academic environment, student’s emails may be forwarded solely for the purpose of communication with other faculty members. This email contains my personal situation; I have no problem sharing by any means others than forwarding this whole email. To avoid confusion, my instructors are aware of my situation.

I am contacting you about academic policy applied to program requirements, specifically courses with lab and lecture sessions. For those courses, the students are required by the academic policy to take both lecture and lab courses in one and the same semester. I have respect for academic policy in any case, and I am aware that this requirement is set based on the benefits for student’s future academic plans and …show more content…

Life may be challenging and none of us is aware of what tomorrow may bring us. However, every individual has to make priorities when facing the challenging life events. Fair or not, student’s academic plan may not be the first priority when dealing with situations where family, child and health is involved. Everyone’s situation is unique, so the decisions how to encounter and deal with unexpected, sensitive issues is a personal choice.
I am international student majoring general studies, concentration Biology. I attend Delgado to fill the time gap between undergraduate and graduate education. For this semester, I have very carefully chosen for my courses that may improve my resume and increase my chance of admission to the graduate program of my interest. Although I am very interested in my classes this semester, I am unable to keep up with all of them due to an unexpected family

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