Submit an Academic Petition or Appeal

Petition Letter: I am appealing the Faculty's decision that I must withdraw from Queens for a minimum of three years.

I had a car accident on Christmas in 2017. Until I entered school in 2017, my treatment didn't complete, and most of my problems are not solved. During this period, I had to travel to Toronto frequently to see doctor, lawyer and court. It makes me tired, and I feel psychological pain, and my health problems continue to worsen. In 2019, my family was in trouble, my father had an affair, and my grandmother was ill in hospital. I plan to study computer courses, but my bad mood and physical condition, I began to feel tired in the course learning and even felt that it was often difficult to breathe, and insomnia was severe. During this period, I tried to seek school physiotherapy to treat my pain and made an appointment with a school psychologist. As a result, soon after the beginning of the treatment, COVID-19 stopped all my treatment, and I returned to China. During the isolation period, it was the final exam period. My hotel network was poor, which made me almost unable to access the Internet usually. When I was isolated, I learned that my grandmother's physical condition was terrible, making me depressed. From 2020 to 2021, when I got home, my parents were quarrelling every day, and my grandmother died at the end of April 2020, which hit me very hard.
Moreover, the network speed of our home is slow; I bought VPN, but often disconnected, so many tests and examinations I have been reconnecting. Whenever I stay up late to study, I cannot sit for a long time because my back and teeth are excruciating, making my learning efficiency very low. I planned GAP for one year after returning to China because of the lousy network and physical condition. After I was isolated, I told my father my plan, but he did not understand me even beat me. He thinks that all problems can be adjusted by myself, not a big problem; if I do not continue to study, he will not let me go to school anymore. So, I am afraid that my drop course will let him know that I can only continue. The network of my final exams of several courses is constantly reconnecting, and even the final of one course is not uploaded successfully. I hope I can at least pass the course, but there are serious network problems, and I didn't study well in the final exam.

I lived in a hospital in China for more than a month and had two back operations. Now I feel a little more relaxed in my back. After the winter class, I go to my mother's friend's clinic for massage and acupuncture three times a week. I feel much better, but my dentists and most of the treatment still need to go back to Canada. I plan to come back in July, spend two months to finish my dental problems and physical treatment in Toronto, and return to school in September. I will retake MATH 111, CISC 203, CISC 204, CISC 221, CISC 124 and appoint an academic advisor to help me arrange the course. And join the school study group. I plan to study computer science because I realize the importance of computers; I bought a few programming books and previewed a lot about the upcoming courses. I will discuss my goals with my academic advisor when selecting courses and ask her to help me plan a proper and suitable course for me. I got to know many friendly friends through wellness in school, and I want to go back to school, study with them, and succeed.