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Petition Type: New
ID: 4181
Submitted: January 26, 2018 at 3:14:21 PM
First Name: Victoria
Last Name: Dimitropoulos
Student Number: 10183745
Email: 14vd18@queensu.ca
Degree Program: BAH
Plan: PSYC, ENGL
Level of Study: 3
Petition Categories
Petition Categories: Waive the 21-day or one term deadline
Petition Letter
Petition Letter: Appeal to Waive One-Term Deadline
To The Associate Dean (Studies),
I am submitting this appeal to waive the one-term deadline on dropping a course. I took ENGL217 in the winter semester of 2017 and am wanting to appeal to get it dropped. The extenuating circumstances that caused me to not be able to file this appeal until now are an eating disorder, limited knowledge about the appeal process, and a very stressful living situation.
My eating disorder has impacted me severely and was very active at the time of this course and afterwards. I have anorexia and it comes with many troubling side effects that greatly impacted my ability to attend to academic matters during this time period. Some of the mental side effects of anorexia that I suffered were difficulty focusing, thinking, prioritizing, and switching tasks. As the eating disorder is accompanied by very disordered thinking, I was unable to attend to this matter during my suffering and subsequent treatment that occurred throughout the summer prior to fall semester of 2017.
Upon returning to school in September, I was still getting treated for my eating disorder and I saw the counsellor at Queen¿¿s a couple of times to discuss this. While dealing with this, my house had a very terrible rodent infestation. This caused myself and my housemates to be unable to cook in our kitchen, which led to me not being able to eat and further aggravated my eating disorder, which I was trying to recover from. I was also unable to sleep due to hearing the rodents running through our walls and the traps snapping as they were caught.
I was unaware that appealing to get a course dropped was an option. I did not learn that this was an option for me until January of 2018. I found out through my housemate who told me she had done this process before to get failures dropped from her transcript. Upon learning that this was an option for me, I immediately looked into it and found out I was way past the deadline. That is when I began drafting this appeal letter.
I have completed treatment for my eating disorder and am no longer showing symptoms. I have also moved to a different home as of January 2018 that is free of any rodent issues. With these major changes, I am confident that I will be able to continue to reach my academic goals going forward.
Thank you,
Victoria Dimitropoulos
To The Associate Dean (Studies),
I am submitting this appeal to waive the one-term deadline on dropping a course. I took ENGL217 in the winter semester of 2017 and am wanting to appeal to get it dropped. The extenuating circumstances that caused me to not be able to file this appeal until now are an eating disorder, limited knowledge about the appeal process, and a very stressful living situation.
My eating disorder has impacted me severely and was very active at the time of this course and afterwards. I have anorexia and it comes with many troubling side effects that greatly impacted my ability to attend to academic matters during this time period. Some of the mental side effects of anorexia that I suffered were difficulty focusing, thinking, prioritizing, and switching tasks. As the eating disorder is accompanied by very disordered thinking, I was unable to attend to this matter during my suffering and subsequent treatment that occurred throughout the summer prior to fall semester of 2017.
Upon returning to school in September, I was still getting treated for my eating disorder and I saw the counsellor at Queen¿¿s a couple of times to discuss this. While dealing with this, my house had a very terrible rodent infestation. This caused myself and my housemates to be unable to cook in our kitchen, which led to me not being able to eat and further aggravated my eating disorder, which I was trying to recover from. I was also unable to sleep due to hearing the rodents running through our walls and the traps snapping as they were caught.
I was unaware that appealing to get a course dropped was an option. I did not learn that this was an option for me until January of 2018. I found out through my housemate who told me she had done this process before to get failures dropped from her transcript. Upon learning that this was an option for me, I immediately looked into it and found out I was way past the deadline. That is when I began drafting this appeal letter.
I have completed treatment for my eating disorder and am no longer showing symptoms. I have also moved to a different home as of January 2018 that is free of any rodent issues. With these major changes, I am confident that I will be able to continue to reach my academic goals going forward.
Thank you,
Victoria Dimitropoulos
Documentation
Professional Letter: Doctor Letter-0.pdf
Decision Letters
Amendment to Appeal 4181
Relevant Petition: 4181
First Name: Victoria
Last Name: Dimitropoulos
Student Number: 10183745
Email: 14vd18@queensu.ca
Degree Program: BAH
Plan: PSYC, ENGL
Level of Study: 3
Petition Categories
Petition Categories: Drop a course after the academic deadline
Code: ENGL 217
Term: Winter
Year: 2017
Petition Category: Drop a course after the academic deadline
Petition Letter
Petition Letter: Appeal for Late Course Drop
To the Associate Dean (Studies),
I am submitting this appeal to drop ENGL217 from the winter of 2017 semester. The extenuating circumstance that greatly affected my work in this course was an eating disorder. As the course is no longer offered, I cannot take it again to replace the grade, this is also why I am appealing to get it dropped.
There was one essay worth a large portion of my grade that I got a 0 on for this course. The timing of this assignment was concurrent with the severe eating disorder as outlined in the supplemented doctor¿¿s letter. This eating disorder has been on and off for a number of years and during this time period, I was in a severe relapse. My eating disorder has impacted me greatly and was very active at the time of this evaluation. I have anorexia and it comes with many troubling side effects that impacted my ability to attend to academic matters during this time period. Some of the mental side effects of anorexia that I suffered were difficulty focusing, thinking, prioritizing, and switching tasks. During the time that I had to work on this assignment, I had three other large assignments due that I was in the midst of working on. The anxiety of dealing with all these assignments further aggravated my eating disorder. Upon completion of these assignments, I found myself mentally exhausted and unable to complete the ENGL217 assignment to the best of my ability. This eating disorder is accompanied by very disordered thinking and so I was unable to appropriately deal with this academic matter at the time. Part of my eating disorder was also going to great lengths to hide my disorder and denial that I needed help, which led me to not alert anybody at Queen¿¿s that I was struggling and needed help. I ended up going home (Toronto) immediately after the assignment (end of March) to receive medical treatment, stabilize my eating and weight, before returning to write exams after a few weeks.
Due to getting a 0 on the aforementioned assignment, despite writing the exam in April, I did end up failing the course due to the heavy weight of the assignment. I had planned on re-taking this course in either the fall 2017 semester or winter 2018 semester, but I found that this specific course was no longer offered. Due to it no longer being offered, I was unable to re-take it and replace my failing grade.
Upon realization that I could not re-take the class, I eventually learned from a friend that an appeal is the next best option to get the fail dropped. I am happy to say that I did receive treatment predominantly throughout the summer and follow-ups throughout the fall 2017 semester and my eating disorder has not adversely impacted my studies since the winter 2017 semester. I continue to be monitored to ensure this does not happen again and am confident that I will be able to continue to reach my academic goals going forward.
Thank you,
Victoria Dimitropoulos
To the Associate Dean (Studies),
I am submitting this appeal to drop ENGL217 from the winter of 2017 semester. The extenuating circumstance that greatly affected my work in this course was an eating disorder. As the course is no longer offered, I cannot take it again to replace the grade, this is also why I am appealing to get it dropped.
There was one essay worth a large portion of my grade that I got a 0 on for this course. The timing of this assignment was concurrent with the severe eating disorder as outlined in the supplemented doctor¿¿s letter. This eating disorder has been on and off for a number of years and during this time period, I was in a severe relapse. My eating disorder has impacted me greatly and was very active at the time of this evaluation. I have anorexia and it comes with many troubling side effects that impacted my ability to attend to academic matters during this time period. Some of the mental side effects of anorexia that I suffered were difficulty focusing, thinking, prioritizing, and switching tasks. During the time that I had to work on this assignment, I had three other large assignments due that I was in the midst of working on. The anxiety of dealing with all these assignments further aggravated my eating disorder. Upon completion of these assignments, I found myself mentally exhausted and unable to complete the ENGL217 assignment to the best of my ability. This eating disorder is accompanied by very disordered thinking and so I was unable to appropriately deal with this academic matter at the time. Part of my eating disorder was also going to great lengths to hide my disorder and denial that I needed help, which led me to not alert anybody at Queen¿¿s that I was struggling and needed help. I ended up going home (Toronto) immediately after the assignment (end of March) to receive medical treatment, stabilize my eating and weight, before returning to write exams after a few weeks.
Due to getting a 0 on the aforementioned assignment, despite writing the exam in April, I did end up failing the course due to the heavy weight of the assignment. I had planned on re-taking this course in either the fall 2017 semester or winter 2018 semester, but I found that this specific course was no longer offered. Due to it no longer being offered, I was unable to re-take it and replace my failing grade.
Upon realization that I could not re-take the class, I eventually learned from a friend that an appeal is the next best option to get the fail dropped. I am happy to say that I did receive treatment predominantly throughout the summer and follow-ups throughout the fall 2017 semester and my eating disorder has not adversely impacted my studies since the winter 2017 semester. I continue to be monitored to ensure this does not happen again and am confident that I will be able to continue to reach my academic goals going forward.
Thank you,
Victoria Dimitropoulos
Documentation
Professional Letter: Doctor Letter-1.pdf