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Petition Letter: Dear Associate Dean,
Sorry for bothering you, I am a forth-year student from arts and science, my major is Psychology and my minor is Economics. My name is Xinyu Gao and my student number is 20014124, I am appealing to drop PSYC333 (winter, 2020). I just got my grade for midterm of this course yesterday, it is a F and the weighting of this midterm is very high, more than 20 percent, I suppose to drop the course but I have seen that the deadline of dropping classes is Feb.28th.
I have been in trouble with my stomach illness for more than a month. I first went to clinic on Jan.14th, because my stomach have been painful badly for several days, the doctor gave me some medicines but it did not work, so I went to the same clinic a week later, then the doctor booked a C-Urea Carbon Dioxide Breath Test for me, but the day of the test is March.19th. I could not receive efficient treatment before results of the test produced. I have taken another kind of medicine for two weeks, but sometimes my stomach still aches seriously, I could not focus on study when my stomachache occurs. When my stomach begins to ache, I will feel dizzy, feel like vomiting. Sour regurgitation,heart burn and diarrhoea also happens. My stomach will ache so severe that I even could not stand. I can only lie on bed when it begins to ache. The chest pain cause by sour regurgitation is also severe, and I also have sore throat at the same time.When I was taking the midterm of PSYC333, I was having stomachache. On the day before the midterm of PSYC333, there is another midterm for another psychology course, I spent majority of my time to review that course, after finishing the midterm of that course, I tried to review PSYC333, but my stomachache occurs at that time, maybe because I stayed up all night to study for exams, I only slept four hours in two days. At that time my stomachache was so severe that I could not focus on study or writing exams.
After that, my stomachache sometimes became better, sometimes became worse, repeated for several times. Since my grade of midterm is F and the weighting of it is really high, I do not think I can save my final grade of this course from final exam.
If I could drop PSYC333, I may choose to retake it next fall semester, since I have already delayed graduation for a semester. I may choose another course to replace it, as well.

Sincerely,
Xinyu Gao