Her admission to Michigan University was to go and study mathematics; it happened that in the class they had different people from different nationalities and this created fear in Yuqi since one of the greatest challenge that she was facing was language barrier, the language was actually unfamiliar to herself, in the class they were actually divided into groups and she remembers she was with one guy from America student and one was also an Asian American, during this time they were actually practicing MTH124, this is a mathematics unit course that they were doing and they used to go for the practice every Friday. Communication barrier actually embarrassed him, especially during the discussion because Yuqi could not get her group members and this made her not to post any question to them because they could not understand
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each other, it reached appoint that they realized that she could not contribute anything in the group and this made them to actually become annoyed with her and she also felt shy because his group members ignored her (Ary, Donald, et al, 2018, 134)
The experience made Yuqi to feel less confident and even started blaming himself because for sure she could not catch along with these guys in the group discussion and at that particular moment she became darker and darker in her mind and this made her start doubting herself that going to study in America had no impact for her and could actually not bear any fruit for her life, the negative attitude that came to Yuqi mind actually caused education probation to her which led to GPA that was lower average of 2.0 (Van Manen, Max,2016, 342)
This happened because every day Yuqi was actually under pressure she started thinking about himself and she was looking herself not adequate enough to perform in the class, this also brought another fear to her that because of his poor performance she could end up being discontinued from the university because once he had been put on probation then the next thing that could follow is to go back to her home country and this gave her challenge because he went to actually learn and he thought that it could be a very big shame to go home that she has been defeated to perform in school but something came to his mind and she said that the things that seem to be happening in her life that is actually bad should be his strength and power to encourage her and this made her start consulting and encouraging herself on how she can also make it in class (Clandinin, D. Jean, 2016, 486)
After several thoughts in Yuqi’s mind (Ary, Donald, et al, 2018, 134) she decided to seek help from some of the people around her but later she settled to go and seek pieces of advice from her academic advisor by the time that she was finishing her academic probation of around
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three months. By the time she was going there everything seemed to be horrible for her, because she remembered there was heavy snow everywhere and the only thing that you could see is white color because everything turned to be white in the whole area, when Yuqi went to the academic advisor she actually gave him hope.
She was encouraged and one thing that he realized that this problem could actually end before it became worst if he could seek for advice before she allowed himself to be in such horrible situation. The advisor told Yuqi that she is not the only person who goes through this experience because there were several international student who were also facing the same problem and from there Yuqi felt relieved and one thing that she can't forget that he told her is that everything will actually be okay, because the worst will past and this was his strength (Van Manen, Max,2016, 342)
The experience that Yuqie went through in the University actually taught herself a lot of lessons that perhaps we think we are the best but when we come to meet with the different people we will actually realize our weakness and we will feel that we are not the best, but one greatest thing that he learned from that experience is that she went through is that, people should always learn to think and actually consult other people when they are going through some challenges in life (Ary, Donald, et al, 2018, 134)
She got new strength and new powers and that will encourage them so much to renew their energies and their dead dreams and things will work and she learnt that even if she went through the academic probation but every bad thing that happened to him encouraged her forever and today she actually communicates well with people and she can also contribute heavily in
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group discussion and just like one of the lyrics that went by Kelly Clarkson says what does not kill, makes you even stronger (Ary, Donald, et al, 2018, 134)
References
Ary, Donald, et al. Introduction to research in education. Cengage Learning, 2018.
Clandinin, D. Jean. Engaging in narrative inquiry. Routledge, 2016.
Van Manen, Max. Researching lived experience: Human science for an action sensitive pedagogy. Routledge, 2016.
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