Petition Letter
June 16, 2014
Dear Associate Dean,
My name is Giordano Manuel and I am a second year economics major. I am appealing the Faculty's decision that I must withdraw from Queen's for a minimum of one year. When I received an email from Queen's University asking me to withdraw, I was not shocked but I was truly saddened and felt like I have truly failed my family; specifically my parents.
My entire life my parents have been pressuring me to do well so that I can meet the requirements to enroll in a top university. I thank them for what they have done and if it weren't for them I would not have gotten as far as I have so far. I have an unimaginable amount of respect towards them for that. The only problem is once I enrolled in to Queen's university, they were not satisfied with my faculty. Since they were paying for my education (and I am truly grateful for them doing so), they wanted to pick my major. Therefore they picked economics, one of the more difficult art majors. It is evident that I struggled first year and I did not do much better in my second. I was never any good at math but I did not expect to do this poorly and I'm ashamed to say I have failed my parents and the Queen's University's expectations of a university student.
Dear Associate Dean,
My name is Giordano Manuel and I am a second year economics major. I am appealing the Faculty's decision that I must withdraw from Queen's for a minimum of one year. When I received an email from Queen's University asking me to withdraw, I was not shocked but I was truly saddened and felt like I have truly failed my family; specifically my parents.
My entire life my parents have been pressuring me to do well so that I can meet the requirements to enroll in a top university. I thank them for what they have done and if it weren't for them I would not have gotten as far as I have so far. I have an unimaginable amount of respect towards them for that. The only problem is once I enrolled in to Queen's university, they were not satisfied with my faculty. Since they were paying for my education (and I am truly grateful for them doing so), they wanted to pick my major. Therefore they picked economics, one of the more difficult art majors. It is evident that I struggled first year and I did not do much better in my second. I was never any good at math but I did not expect to do this poorly and I'm ashamed to say I have failed my parents and the Queen's University's expectations of a university student.