Petition Letter
May 24, 2018
To Whom It May Concern
Dear Associate Dean,
I am appealing the Faculty¿¿s decision that I must withdraw from Queen¿¿s for a year.
Last year was my first year at Queen¿¿s and I had encountered some social issues in the beginning of the year. Those issues were mainly about making friends and blending into the environment. I was studying at Trinity College School for 2 years prior coming Queen¿¿s. I had no problem of making friends at all, but everything started to fall apart and change since coming to Queen¿¿s. I could not make friends and I started to isolate myself, which I did not talk about this problem to anyone throughout the year except in the beginning. In that conversation with my parents in the beginning of the school year, we all, including myself, believed this was just about getting used to the new environment, which will disappear soon and I, personally thought that I could handle it but turned out it had been bothering me on my academic performance underlyingly for the whole year. On the other hand, my mom underwent a surgery in October and I was really worried, which I did not want them to worry about me with the existing heavy stress back home in Hong Kong. So I did not really talk to them about it. Fortunately, my mom slowly got better with the help of medication till April 2018 when prescription ends. However, the whole atmosphere back at home was not so good in this whole year, along with my mom¿¿s surgery and my sister¿¿s multiple ankle injury. This problem and situation made me losing motivation and could not focus on studying, which directly affected my academic performance. The reason on why not dropping any courses was I did not want to give up and I believed I could do it. Also I was not aware how my emotion was affecting my performance. I did realized my academic levels were not that good comparing to my two years when I was at TCS, but I treated it as the difference between high school and university.
To Whom It May Concern
Dear Associate Dean,
I am appealing the Faculty¿¿s decision that I must withdraw from Queen¿¿s for a year.
Last year was my first year at Queen¿¿s and I had encountered some social issues in the beginning of the year. Those issues were mainly about making friends and blending into the environment. I was studying at Trinity College School for 2 years prior coming Queen¿¿s. I had no problem of making friends at all, but everything started to fall apart and change since coming to Queen¿¿s. I could not make friends and I started to isolate myself, which I did not talk about this problem to anyone throughout the year except in the beginning. In that conversation with my parents in the beginning of the school year, we all, including myself, believed this was just about getting used to the new environment, which will disappear soon and I, personally thought that I could handle it but turned out it had been bothering me on my academic performance underlyingly for the whole year. On the other hand, my mom underwent a surgery in October and I was really worried, which I did not want them to worry about me with the existing heavy stress back home in Hong Kong. So I did not really talk to them about it. Fortunately, my mom slowly got better with the help of medication till April 2018 when prescription ends. However, the whole atmosphere back at home was not so good in this whole year, along with my mom¿¿s surgery and my sister¿¿s multiple ankle injury. This problem and situation made me losing motivation and could not focus on studying, which directly affected my academic performance. The reason on why not dropping any courses was I did not want to give up and I believed I could do it. Also I was not aware how my emotion was affecting my performance. I did realized my academic levels were not that good comparing to my two years when I was at TCS, but I treated it as the difference between high school and university.