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Petition Letter: Hello,

Given the timings of the pandemic and with some situations that played throughout this course, it has given me the decision to drop this course (HLTH 200). I have seen that many students in our facebook group have complained about how confusing this course has been, in terms of almost random requirements due for an assignment such as finding a template that was not shown directly in the outline. It also if then had extra add-ons or a certain way of doing it which felt exaggerated in terms of the way it is supposed to be as considering it is a fitness course, sometimes different approaches should be acceptable. After the first assignment, I noticed that this course did not fit. I saw that the deadline was March 5th and unfortunately around those days I had a personal situation go on that caused me to not be fully focused on school. I received psychologist help that I have proof of on during those specific timings of the drop deadline and was able to recover mentally. I however was then stuck with understanding how to go forward with this course and saw that I had an assignment due for this course after. The assignment was strange to me as after recovering, I put in work towards a workout plan that I added 2-3 exercises but lost a chunk of marks since I was only supposed to have one I also could not find a template that we were supposed to use and another student complained of it as well and that also resulted in a blow to the grade. It was very confusing at the time and another assignment that came in shortly of mid-march which I was afraid I was not able to utilize the drop deadline and did began reaching out. I still however, attempted this assignment that I wrote 7 pages single spaced and yet again, being told of things that were I would have never guessed myself unless clear instructions were provided. I am now due to not only missing the drop deadline of the personal situation I had to seek help for and got better. I also did not enjoy the layout of this course and the harsh way of marking work, it really made me feel weird after writing 7 pages with details and still failing the assignment. I understand there is a lot more than just word count but the mistakes pointed were very picky and would just result in continuous appeals for the assignments. I hope I can get my full refund and the W avoided off my transcript as I feel that is fair for me.