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What to Do After Failing a Course (or Two)

So you failed a course this semester in college. Or two courses. Or three. Depending on your situation, it's either having tell it all to your parents and friends, the fact that you've never failed anything in school before, or your plummeting GPA that now keeps you up at night. The damage is done, but you need to know exactly how damaging it is, and what to do to fix it? Will you just need a band-aid or stitches? FINANCIAL AID AND SCHOLARSHIPS You may already know this, but to those freshmen who possibly don't, if you receive financial aid to cover college costs, a less than 2.0 GPA can cost you your eligibility to continue to receive it. Luckily, this is a cumulative GPA rule. So if you managed to get a one point something GPA for one semester, the past semesters should be your saving grace. Of course, if you are a freshman in your first semester, a 2.0 or above GPA is a must. Reach out to and keep in touch with not only your financial aid office throughout the

Proving a Subspace is Indeed a Subspace!

These are my notes from Matrices and Vectors MATH 2333 at the University of Texas at Dallas from January 22, 2018. We learn a couple ways to prove a subspace is a subspace. A subspace of a vector space V is a subset in V, and is itself a vector space that has underwent the operations of addition and scalar multiplication inherited from the original vector space V. In other words the subspace must: 1. Include a zero vector 2. Be closed under addition (I f we add two elements of the subspace is the result in the subspace?) 3. Be closed under scalar multiplication (If we multiply elements in S by some scalar, is the result in S?) The elements and scalar mentioned will usually belong to all real numbers. If any element in a set of vectors is restricted to all positive numbers or all negative numbers (can't be equal to 0) a zero vector is impossible. So always check for the first condition. Lastly, all subsets can be

Minnie K. Patton Foundation Scholarship

PROMPT: This scholarship is open to full-time students who demonstrate a capacity and desire for education as well as their need for financial assistance. The first day of junior high started at a middle school surrounded by rows of suburban houses sitting on smooth pavements and rich grass. Inside, one could find karate students, PSAT preparatory counselors, one crisp textbook in each student desk, and a library hiding a Japanese children’s book. Naturally I felt confident in my academic future, assured that this school would make me a competitive candidate in college admissions. While I valued education in this way, my passion for education would deepen only after surpassing my most trying years in my academic journey. In just a year at my new school, I had taken my first practice PSA and developed a fascination with Japanese phonics that would stick with me in the future. With the number of schools a student could attend being ultimately limited by that student’s address, m

College Jumpstart Scholarship Essay April 2017

PROMPT: How will winning this scholarship help you attain your goals? Please answer in 250 words or less. During the upcoming spring semester, I will study at Sophia University in Tokyo. While in Japan, I want to strengthen my Japanese writing skills and understand Japanese economics. Most importantly, I plan to empower minority high-school and college students with interests in going abroad who, like me, come from financially challenged homes. Winning this scholarship would fully cover my airfare, which is fundamental in achieving these goals - their achievement requires my physical presence. Lack of immediate means to pay is a key reason students may decide to settle for lower cost study abroad programs that may not fully align with their goals and potential. In most cases, financial hardships lead students to completely opt out of studying abroad, seeing it as impossible. In my high-school, this was a common sentiment held by myself and other students. Realistically, afford