Petition Letter
To the Associate Dean,¿
This letter concerns my request for Credit Standing (CR) for courses in the Fall and Winter term of school year 2018-2019.¿ I apologize for not sending this letter earlier, as I was unaware until speaking to a guidance adviser this term, that I had the option to make this request.¿
I dealt with a number of issues last year, that significantly affected my physical and mental health and subsequently my ability to perform well in all of my courses.¿ I previously applied for a late drop appeal for one of my fall courses, COMM303 due to some of these issues and based on the advice from my professor at the time, I was successful with having the course dropped.
I have struggled with putting together this letter as I have difficulty reliving the events of the last year.¿ I was on track to complete my Honours Bachelor's degree in four years and then to apply for a Masters degree, however the poor marks I had last year left me with feelings of failure due to circumstances beyond my control ¿¿ I am faced with having to retake courses or graduating with a poor GPA that will limit my future opportunities.¿ The guidance office has been very helpful in presenting me with options to get back to my original goals and one option was to consider applying for a credit standing for the courses where I performed poorly. This would allow me to move on with my future and put the past behind me.
This current request is to consider an application for Credit Standing for the following courses:
POLS354-Democratic Theory (Fall, 2018)¿¿
POLS360-Introduction to International Relations (Fall, 2018)¿¿
POLS385-Introduction to Statistics (Winter, 2019)¿¿
POLS332- Post-communist Politics (Winter, 2019)¿¿
POLS383- Law and the Governmental Process (Winter, 2019)¿¿
I was randomly sucker-punched by a complete stranger on Oct. 31st, 2018 and suffered a concussion that affected my ability to focus and perform effectively in school.¿ I was left unconscious and the police took me to the hospital, where I spent the night at the KGH and was diagnosed with a concussion and a broken nose.¿ The impact of the concussion caused me to struggle with anxiety and depression for the fall and winter terms and I found myself struggling with the ability to manage a full course load.¿
I had weighed the option of dropping out of the fall and winter terms and returning home to deal with the effects of the concussion and the related mental health issues. However, I was concerned that if I left school to deal with these issues, that I would not return, and I did not want to let the attack derail my ability to get my degree from Queen¿¿s and to be successful later in life.¿ As I was dealing with these issues, I also lost my grandmother and uncle in the early part of the winter term and while I would normally have managed to deal with these losses, I found myself struggling even more. It was a dark period in my life and I tried very hard to continue with my studies and tried to not give in and leave school.
While I was able to manage some of courses well with the support of my professors and with accommodations from Student Services, I struggled with the weight of the full course load and this showed in the marks in some of my classes.
I don¿¿t want to continue to dwell on the past issues and want to move and focus on my future. Getting the credit standing to remove the poor marks on my transcript will go a long way to helping me heal and to get back on my path to being successful.
I realize that I may have waited too long to deal with these issues to manage my grade point average, however I wasn¿¿t aware until my recent discussions with guidance that this option was available to me.¿ I¿¿m completing this during the Christmas break as it has been a challenge to prepare this request in the midst of completing my last term and my hope is that you will still consider this request given the delay.¿
Thank you - Kamal Ramnares
If you have any questions, and would like to discuss further, please let me know.
16kr7@queensu.ca
This letter concerns my request for Credit Standing (CR) for courses in the Fall and Winter term of school year 2018-2019.¿ I apologize for not sending this letter earlier, as I was unaware until speaking to a guidance adviser this term, that I had the option to make this request.¿
I dealt with a number of issues last year, that significantly affected my physical and mental health and subsequently my ability to perform well in all of my courses.¿ I previously applied for a late drop appeal for one of my fall courses, COMM303 due to some of these issues and based on the advice from my professor at the time, I was successful with having the course dropped.
I have struggled with putting together this letter as I have difficulty reliving the events of the last year.¿ I was on track to complete my Honours Bachelor's degree in four years and then to apply for a Masters degree, however the poor marks I had last year left me with feelings of failure due to circumstances beyond my control ¿¿ I am faced with having to retake courses or graduating with a poor GPA that will limit my future opportunities.¿ The guidance office has been very helpful in presenting me with options to get back to my original goals and one option was to consider applying for a credit standing for the courses where I performed poorly. This would allow me to move on with my future and put the past behind me.
This current request is to consider an application for Credit Standing for the following courses:
POLS354-Democratic Theory (Fall, 2018)¿¿
POLS360-Introduction to International Relations (Fall, 2018)¿¿
POLS385-Introduction to Statistics (Winter, 2019)¿¿
POLS332- Post-communist Politics (Winter, 2019)¿¿
POLS383- Law and the Governmental Process (Winter, 2019)¿¿
I was randomly sucker-punched by a complete stranger on Oct. 31st, 2018 and suffered a concussion that affected my ability to focus and perform effectively in school.¿ I was left unconscious and the police took me to the hospital, where I spent the night at the KGH and was diagnosed with a concussion and a broken nose.¿ The impact of the concussion caused me to struggle with anxiety and depression for the fall and winter terms and I found myself struggling with the ability to manage a full course load.¿
I had weighed the option of dropping out of the fall and winter terms and returning home to deal with the effects of the concussion and the related mental health issues. However, I was concerned that if I left school to deal with these issues, that I would not return, and I did not want to let the attack derail my ability to get my degree from Queen¿¿s and to be successful later in life.¿ As I was dealing with these issues, I also lost my grandmother and uncle in the early part of the winter term and while I would normally have managed to deal with these losses, I found myself struggling even more. It was a dark period in my life and I tried very hard to continue with my studies and tried to not give in and leave school.
While I was able to manage some of courses well with the support of my professors and with accommodations from Student Services, I struggled with the weight of the full course load and this showed in the marks in some of my classes.
I don¿¿t want to continue to dwell on the past issues and want to move and focus on my future. Getting the credit standing to remove the poor marks on my transcript will go a long way to helping me heal and to get back on my path to being successful.
I realize that I may have waited too long to deal with these issues to manage my grade point average, however I wasn¿¿t aware until my recent discussions with guidance that this option was available to me.¿ I¿¿m completing this during the Christmas break as it has been a challenge to prepare this request in the midst of completing my last term and my hope is that you will still consider this request given the delay.¿
Thank you - Kamal Ramnares
If you have any questions, and would like to discuss further, please let me know.
16kr7@queensu.ca