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Petition Letter: I am appealing to drop BIOL 102 (Fall 2015)

Earlier in the school year, I was sick, causing me to miss some classes and important labs in the course, causing me to fall behind. I wanted to drop the course earlier, but I was also sick on the week of the academic deadline to drop courses, and I couldn't.
Since the deadline passed, I thought there was no other way to drop courses but a friend of mine told me it was still possible, and that is why I am writing the appeal now.

The reason I wanted to drop course was because I was originally aiming for biomedical computing in second year, but after thinking through I decided to take the regular computer science program, making biology a non-essential course.
I may change my mind and decide to go into biomedical computing again in the future, but I believe that I will be able to do better than I am currently doing if I were to take the course again.

I apologize for writing this very late in the course, and thank you for taking your time to read this appeal.