Academic Plan
My GPA currently resides at a 1.600 from enrollment, and 1.49 cumulative. I believe that in continuing my academic efforts, I will be able to increase it even further. In appealing this requirement, and if this appeal is successful, I will pursue a 4th year project in the Jessop research group within the department of Chemistry working on Polystyrene Recycling from Switchable Hydrophilicity Solvents - a novel way to recycle a commonly used polymer. I am currently working in the lab as a volunteer and would like to make this work into a thesis so that next year I can continue to increase my GPA and academic achievement by taking courses that I am interested in, as well as courses required to complete my degree (CHEM 313 and 322). I have failed MATH 112 twice, and MATH 121, which are requirements to take CHEM 313 and 322, and I plan on retaking them in tandem with 313, with permission from the department, so that I can achieve my academic goals. In terms of ongoing extenuating circumstances, I plan to make ongoing meetings with a counsellor from HCDS to ensure that my BPD symptoms are managed, and I continue to stay on medication as I have found this to be very helpful. In terms of academic habits, I will continue to spend at least 4-5 hours a day on schoolwork, which I have been doing, including assignment work, homework, catching up on notes, etc. My main trigger for my anxiety includes evaluative components of courses, where my flight, fight, or freeze mechanism ensues. The main thing that occurs is that I freeze and panic. Generally, my actual course work (assignments, labs, etc) have all been decent in terms of academic standing, where my mental health fails me is for exams. I have previously reached out and asked for exam accommodations which did help, I was going to apply for extra accommodations but was not in a good place mentally and did not have the mental strength. However, this is also something I will pursue in the future for all upcoming exams.