Petition Letter
To whomever it may concern,
My name is Tina Cheung and I just completed my first year of undergraduate in the faculty of Arts and Science. I am writing an appeal for my continuation into second year. My current GPA is a 0.667 and I understand that the normal minimum requirement to continue studying is at least a 0.7.
The reason this happened was because coming into this past year, I underestimated my work load and my ability to handle the stress that came along with it. I was not able to manage my time properly, leading to the poor performance I demonstrated. One of the things that surprised me most was that I didn't receive help if I didn't ask for it myself. In high school I had been used to teachers who aided me every step of the way, and even when I faced challenges they would support me thoroughly. However, when I fell behind this year, I thought that I would be able to manage things on my own.
I didn't know how to plan out my schedule and give enough time to just studying and reviewing, or enough time to do assignments that didn't have an impact on my grade but on my overall learning experience. Due to the overwhelming circumstances and changes that I could not keep with, I sometimes felt too stressed to do anything and broke down, and even fell physically ill twice during the year for a week. My friends recommended that I see the counselling services at HCDS after I found out that my GPA by the end of my first year here was below a 0.7. I do not want to continue this trend in my academic career, and so I spoke to Dr. Arunima, and her advice for me was that I should go to see her to help cope with stress with personal issues with family pressure and losing close friends and not making many new ones here, as well as my relatively new relationship. All these events and problems were things I've had trouble dealing with since transitioning to university, but with the proper aid I would be able to handle things much better. I believe that while these problems were more and less unavoidable and had to be dealt with, if they are properly dealt with, my marks will have a strong improvement. So that is my goal in the upcoming year, if I can continue to study at Queen's. Thank you for taking the time to read through my appeal letter.
Regards,
Tina Hiu Yan Cheung
My name is Tina Cheung and I just completed my first year of undergraduate in the faculty of Arts and Science. I am writing an appeal for my continuation into second year. My current GPA is a 0.667 and I understand that the normal minimum requirement to continue studying is at least a 0.7.
The reason this happened was because coming into this past year, I underestimated my work load and my ability to handle the stress that came along with it. I was not able to manage my time properly, leading to the poor performance I demonstrated. One of the things that surprised me most was that I didn't receive help if I didn't ask for it myself. In high school I had been used to teachers who aided me every step of the way, and even when I faced challenges they would support me thoroughly. However, when I fell behind this year, I thought that I would be able to manage things on my own.
I didn't know how to plan out my schedule and give enough time to just studying and reviewing, or enough time to do assignments that didn't have an impact on my grade but on my overall learning experience. Due to the overwhelming circumstances and changes that I could not keep with, I sometimes felt too stressed to do anything and broke down, and even fell physically ill twice during the year for a week. My friends recommended that I see the counselling services at HCDS after I found out that my GPA by the end of my first year here was below a 0.7. I do not want to continue this trend in my academic career, and so I spoke to Dr. Arunima, and her advice for me was that I should go to see her to help cope with stress with personal issues with family pressure and losing close friends and not making many new ones here, as well as my relatively new relationship. All these events and problems were things I've had trouble dealing with since transitioning to university, but with the proper aid I would be able to handle things much better. I believe that while these problems were more and less unavoidable and had to be dealt with, if they are properly dealt with, my marks will have a strong improvement. So that is my goal in the upcoming year, if I can continue to study at Queen's. Thank you for taking the time to read through my appeal letter.
Regards,
Tina Hiu Yan Cheung