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Petition Type: New
ID: 1146
Submitted: June 1, 2015 at 10:51:15 AM
First Name: Aiden
Last Name: Bruinsma-Findlay
Student Number: 10029272
Email: 1faeb@queensu.ca
Degree Program: BSC
Plan: PHYS
Level of Study: 4
Petition Categories
Petition Categories: Drop a course after the academic deadline
Code: CISC 101
Term: Summer
Year: 2015
Petition Category: Drop a course after the academic deadline
Petition Letter
Petition Letter: Dear Sir or Madame, June 1, 2015
I am looking to drop CISC 101. The deadline to drop summer courses was Friday May 29th. I am writing to you on the Monday after. I was deliberating all last week upon whether I should drop the course. Unfortunately, instead of calling an academic advisor, I sought advice from my sister who urged me to maintain my enrolment. Essentially, the day afterwards I realized I had made a mistake and I immediately took action to see whether my own error in judgment could be rectified. I will illustrate my reasons for wishing to drop this course and I hope they do not appear as excuses, or as a result of a lazy attitude.
This past October, I found out my grandma had developed breast cancer. As a result I did significantly worse on all my final exams. In an attempt to bolster my GPA I decided to enroll in summer courses. However just recently, as a family we discovered the cancer has metastasized in her pancreas and as a result we have been spending a lot of time driving to see her. Since we live in Ottawa I have spent a significant amount of time this past month on the road or organizing activities for us to all do as a family since her prognosis is maximum 5 months.
CISC 101 is an intensive two-month course and I admit I thought I was capable of handling such an intensive workload but I'm afraid I've fallen quite behind. In addition, I am also enrolled in a business class. CISC 101 is very coursework intensive and the grading scheme is heavily based off of weekly assignments and quizzes, of which I have had to miss several. It is for this reason I ask that I be dropped. If I thought there was any way for me to make up my grade on the final, I would attempt to do so. But at this point, I am doing so poorly the best I could hope to do is to pass. Since this is not a required course for my degree, it is unlikely I would get another opportunity to take it again. I would very much like to apply to graduate school in the future but those hopes have been already diminished after this past years academic performance. I can only assume adding a failure to my transcript would worsen my chances.
As previously mentioned, I sought my elder sister out for advice about what I should do. She told me I shouldn't quit and that I should persevere. This greatly confused me because I was hoping, when I talked to her, for assurance that it would be better if I dropped the course. I feel very foolish because I was so close to doing it and it was her advice (not to lay the blame on her shoulders; she advised in a way she thought was appropriate) that led me to rethink my options. Now after the weekend has passed I realize Ive made a fairly significant mistake. I hope that you deem it appropriate to grant this appeal.
Thank you very much for taking the time to read this letter.
Aiden Emma Bruinsma-Findlay
I am looking to drop CISC 101. The deadline to drop summer courses was Friday May 29th. I am writing to you on the Monday after. I was deliberating all last week upon whether I should drop the course. Unfortunately, instead of calling an academic advisor, I sought advice from my sister who urged me to maintain my enrolment. Essentially, the day afterwards I realized I had made a mistake and I immediately took action to see whether my own error in judgment could be rectified. I will illustrate my reasons for wishing to drop this course and I hope they do not appear as excuses, or as a result of a lazy attitude.
This past October, I found out my grandma had developed breast cancer. As a result I did significantly worse on all my final exams. In an attempt to bolster my GPA I decided to enroll in summer courses. However just recently, as a family we discovered the cancer has metastasized in her pancreas and as a result we have been spending a lot of time driving to see her. Since we live in Ottawa I have spent a significant amount of time this past month on the road or organizing activities for us to all do as a family since her prognosis is maximum 5 months.
CISC 101 is an intensive two-month course and I admit I thought I was capable of handling such an intensive workload but I'm afraid I've fallen quite behind. In addition, I am also enrolled in a business class. CISC 101 is very coursework intensive and the grading scheme is heavily based off of weekly assignments and quizzes, of which I have had to miss several. It is for this reason I ask that I be dropped. If I thought there was any way for me to make up my grade on the final, I would attempt to do so. But at this point, I am doing so poorly the best I could hope to do is to pass. Since this is not a required course for my degree, it is unlikely I would get another opportunity to take it again. I would very much like to apply to graduate school in the future but those hopes have been already diminished after this past years academic performance. I can only assume adding a failure to my transcript would worsen my chances.
As previously mentioned, I sought my elder sister out for advice about what I should do. She told me I shouldn't quit and that I should persevere. This greatly confused me because I was hoping, when I talked to her, for assurance that it would be better if I dropped the course. I feel very foolish because I was so close to doing it and it was her advice (not to lay the blame on her shoulders; she advised in a way she thought was appropriate) that led me to rethink my options. Now after the weekend has passed I realize Ive made a fairly significant mistake. I hope that you deem it appropriate to grant this appeal.
Thank you very much for taking the time to read this letter.
Aiden Emma Bruinsma-Findlay
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