Submit an Academic Petition or Appeal

Petition Letter: In 2022 I unfortunately dealt with a sexual assault case on Queen's campus and shortly after have been in contact with Barb Lotan as well as the other resources available to my disposition. Evidently, it did take a toll on my mental health and have since been dealing with feelings of anxiety. After the first year of the incident, I have handled myself pretty well given the circumstances and have felt pretty much normal for a lack of better words.

Unfortunately around the middle of my last semester (Winter 2024) a certain situation lead to being reminded of the incident and I found myself having difficulty studying, meeting deadlines and focusing on my school work. This went on for a couple of weeks where I found myself having difficulty doing the basics such as getting out of bed in the morning or trying to get physical activity 3 times a week. Up until April i realized this was taken a bigger toll on my mental health and affecting my education as i had difficulty concentrating in school and lost all motivation. I decided to reach out again to Barb Lotan and set up meetings with one of the Sexual Violence therapist on campus as i did not want to completely give up.

I had to unfortunately miss some of my exams as I was not in the correct headspace to take them and decided to go home for a while. I was granted an exam deferral period for some of my exams but not all hence, in a better head space I wanted to make up for the credits that I had missed.