<p>i'm on an academic suspension from school.
i need to send the letter of appeal by friday, and was wondering if anyone is willing to read my letter of appeal and give me feedback/advice.
i'm in desperate and urgent need of help. i feel like this is end of the world and want to commit suicide.
please help and any advice will be appreciated. i will send it via private message.</p>
<p>thanks so much in advance.</p>
<p>I will. Just PM me.</p>
<p>Can you PM me instead? For some reason it’s saying that since I’m a new member I’m not allowed to send messages until someone messages me first</p>
<p>Please do not commit suicide. Please. This is a disappointment but it is not worth ending you life over it.</p>
<p>I wish you’d call a suicide hot line! You can always turn it around academically (I promise I know this to be true), but right now we need you to be safe. Please take care of yourself.</p>
<p>Would you be able to talk to your parents about how you feel? As a parent, I’d much rather hear that my child is on suspension than find out they committed suicide because they were afraid to tell me about academic difficulties.</p>
<p>Please do talk to somebody. This has happened to many MANY students who have gone on to have fine lives.</p>
<p>Thanks for all of the advice. I do think I could possibly win my appeal because of a situation this semester. I’m the first one to go to college in my family, and education is something that has always been stressed ever since I was little. So much pressure. I just don’t know what to do.</p>
<p>It can seem so overwhelming right now. I urge you to find someone that you can trust that you can talk to. Don’t carry this alone. You aren’t the first person to ever go through this.</p>
<p>Please feel free to PM me with the letter.</p>
<p>Also, PLEASE understand that your family would rather have you with this temporary setback than not have you at all. </p>
<p>Also, you’re young - really young. It’s impossible to see it at your age, but this is such a minor thing in the overall scheme of your life. If you pick yourself up and do better in subsequent semesters, you can have a great life - and a great academic career. (I know a physician who was on academic probation ‘back in the day’, then was at the top of his med school class. And he’s a doctor right now - not someone who is forever ‘that kid on academic probation’.)</p>
<p>Parents really do want kids to be responsible, so they teach them that grades are important, handing in homework is important, maintaining a clean record is important, etc. The downside is that grades, school, homework, tests, etc. can seem like this really big deal; if you screw it up, your life is completely over and it’s the worst thing ever. Except it’s not - unless you contract a deadly disease, get pregnant, or get a girl pregnant, any version of “screwing up your life” while in college is total amateur hour: you can’t begin to really screw up your life until after graduation. </p>
<p>I am not belittling your stress, but am attempting to give you some perspective. Yes, your family will be disappointed; yes, they will yell at you. But it’s over by the time the next semester rolls around - we’re not talking divorce, bankruptcy, jail time, a brain that is permanently damaged from drug use, AIDS, or having children with a whack job. THOSE things are screwing up your life in a fairly permanent way. Please do not think that your life is not worth living - that it’s not worth sticking around for the next sixty years - because of what is happening now.</p>
<p>Check in with us this morning. Are you feeling better? PM me the letter. I will read it. I want to know that you are ok today.</p>
<p>Thank you all for wanting to help me get through this tough situation…</p>
<p>How are you doing today?</p>
<p>Please check in here and let us know that you’re ok. And please call a hotline or go to an emergency room if you are feeling that you might hurt yourself.</p>
<p>Luv4Choco, I sent you a PM with an edited version of your letter last night. Doesn’t seem like you got it. Please check in so we don’t worry about you.</p>
<p>How are you doing today?</p>