Petition Letter
I am writing this appeal letter to request that two grades be removed from my transcript. Over the course of the 2015 Winter Term,I have been experiencing severe anxiety and minor cases of depression. This anxiety began in late December, and continued until the end of Winter Term exams. It has directly affected my grades, in that for two course I was unable to complete an assignment on time,and thus received a failing grade. At its peak, this anxiety had also caused feelings of rather intense depression, and there were weeks where I would not be able to leave my room due to feeling so hopeless in being behind in my courses, and because of this I missed a lot of classes. It wasn't until early March that I finally realized that I needed to get help, after a close friend of mine let something similar get to intense levels, and I then proceeded to talk to a Queen's Mental Health Counselor, Rachel Sturgeon, who was helpful in providing me with ways to work out my anxiety. Unfortunately, the solutions were too long term to provide an immediate solution, and, while I was able to recover in most classes, I fell short in the final two, ENGL-215, and ENGL-271, being unable to complete the final essays. The instructor for ENGL-215 did grant me an extension, however the anxiety returned in full force with the added stress of exams, and I was unable to complete it during the little free time I had away from studying.