7 Year College Student Analysis

So far during my 7 years of attending college, I have really only experienced one thing that have kept me from being able to strive high in my grades and college attendance. In 2009, I was diagnosed with lupus while still in the military. Lupus is an auto immune disease that can cause affect the skin, joints and organs of a person. It can cause joint pain, aches, skin rashes, damage internal organs and etc. Though I mostly only suffered from the occasional aches and pains, I tried not to let it hinder me on achieving my degree.
In 2012, I medically retired after serving seven years in the Army due to my having lupus and not being able to deploy. As soon as I moved back home to Alabama, I enrolled in Virginia College to begin getting my degree in Business Administration. I was able to complete my first quarter without any type of issues at all. Then about 4 days before I was to begin my second quarter at …show more content…
I needed at least another semester to do so but my advisor had advised me not to take the max classes as I had done during the summer semester. My original plan was to take the max classes so that I could boost my gpa back up higher but with her advising me not too, it would have taken at least 2 semesters to get it back up to where I wanted.
After much consideration, I decided to switch schools and come here to Faulkner University in order to give myself a fresh start. So far, things are going well and my lupus has been doing well in the months since I got sick last year. My only issue that I have now is that my walking is still not up to par but I am currently working to get that fixed. My plan is to make sure that as soon as I feel myself getting slightly sick, to let my advisers know so that I can know as to what I can do from there. No matter what though, I refuse to let lupus take away my ability to attend