Submit an Academic Petition or Appeal

Petition Letter: Hi, the reason for my request begins in the first semester of my fourth year. My mental health started to get really bad, I could not make it out of bed, leave the house, or function normally because of it. I would not be able to do much other than stay in my room and cry the entire day or interact with my housemates, other friends and family, I ended up ruining relationships because of it too. My academics were then affected by this and mental health got even worse, so I began to start seeing a councillor at Student Wellness, her name was Gracynn Eades. I received support from her throughout the second semester consistently, she was very helpful in helping my symptoms and things got better slightly but not entirely, my mental health was still interfering with my daily life and I was severely unhappy. When things like exams came up, I would force myself to get out of bed but even then it was a huge struggle, I could barely do it sometimes and ended up having to defer some exams because of it. As a result of this I was unable to leave the house most of the time to attend my classes, in terms of BCHM 316 specifically, I was unable to push myself out of bed to go to class so I lost the ability to keep up with course material, I still followed content online so I would not fall completely behind but still was not enough. I tried my best to do things on my own and keep up but my mental health was so bad it was really difficult to do this for all my classes, so I received longterm academic consideration from my Gracynn that was approved through the term for my classes. Even though the period for my consideration has ended, my circumstances have not changed entirely, I try constantly to focus but just cannot because of all the commotion in my mind and this has made focusing and studying very hard, on top of having missed mostly all my classes and having to teach myself the content. I do not have documentation for right now, but I have documentation to support my condition throughout the semester which made it so hard to stay on top of my academics and in turn be ready for this final. I am requesting an additional deferral as this could be the difference between me graduating or not in the spring, the pressure of not graduating is also adding additional burned on top of that caused by my decline in mental health. Thank you for taking the time to read this and for your understanding in advance!