My Undergrad Years Research Paper

My undergrad years at UW-Seattle was extremely difficult and an emotional roller-coaster for me. I am well aware of my disappointing performance as an undergrad at UW, but I have my reasons. Reasons that I am not proud of. This is a very sensitive topic for me to talk about, but I want to share my story. On February 23st 2010, my loving family of four tragically became a broken family of three. During my freshman year at UW, my dad passed away from liver cancer. I hit rock bottom and became severely depressed to the point where my life became debilitating. I didn't care about anything in my life because I felt like I just lost everything. I became a different person. A person I would be ashamed of because of my weakness and inability to pull through and fix myself. Seeing my family …show more content…
I was working almost full-time hours as a full-time student and consequently my grades begun to slip significantly. As my grades got worse, my depression got worse and I was at breaking point. I did not want to go to class anymore and felt like giving up on school entirely. Initially, as a freshman, I was hoping to apply to the business school but given my poor grades, that became out of reach. Honestly, I did not know my dad’s death was going to afflict me so badly. I thought I would eventually get over it and function normally like most people do, but that never really happened during my years at UW. I wanted to get my life back together and make my dad proud by at least graduating from college. So with that in mind, I reluctantly settled to major in psychology. I still enjoyed the psychology courses that I took, but psychology was not my passion. Miraculously, I was able to attain a bachelors in psychology but I did it for my dad, not for myself. There is always going to be a void in my heart that my dad once filled, but I am slowly but surely finding ways and reasons to fill that