Petition Letter
Dear Associate Dean (Studies),
I am submitting an appeal requesting to waive the appeal deadline for the Winter Term of 2014. In this term my performance was very poor as a result of the psychiatric treatment and the family issues, which I had been dealing with. The first year of university proved difficult me, due to the myriad of disturbances in my personal life and my psychiatric diagnosis detracting me from my studies.
Through this winter term I had been facing growing struggles cognitively, emotionally, and physically. My lack of ability to focus on my academics, as well as complete work on deadlines because of my psychiatric issues, as well as dealing with a sibling¿¿s psychiatric issues made this almost impossible. In addition a close family member had past away my first year, and the trauma of this death was still fresh, following me into my winter term. I often found myself confounded, and unable to do things thing, and ultimately overwhelmed by all these issues. This left me in a state of mental unease, and my situation became worse and worse, as my sleep, focus and ability to work was significantly hindered.
From late March into the summer of 2014, my psychiatrist alongside a psychologist diagnosed me with a long-term psychiatric issue (which hadn¿¿t been diagnosed before). Then they began a rigorous treatment, which proved to be very tiresome. This had a great emotional toll on me. Along with the adjustment of medication during these months, my mood, emotions, and thoughts were all over the place, leaving me unable to study or focus on anything else. All these things that were happening in my life made the appeal deadline seem so distant, and to be candid, appeared to be the least of my worries at the time. Thus, I had missed the deadline for the appeal as my treatment followed through into the summer. I would have appealed earlier but when I had found out from my counsellor that I could appeal the deadline after fall term, I was facing grave traumas such as homelessness, suicide, and homophobia.
I sincerely wish I had been able to write my appeal in the twenty-one day deadline. I would greatly appreciate if I was given permission to appeal my marks for the Winter Term of 2014, which evidently show the effect my condition had on my academics. Even though I did miss the deadline, I did receive much needed treatment, which should have been treated in my childhood. However I hope that I can be given a chance to appeal the marks, which I had been unable to do in the allotted time period due to force of circumstance.
Kindly,
Hassan Saleem
I am submitting an appeal requesting to waive the appeal deadline for the Winter Term of 2014. In this term my performance was very poor as a result of the psychiatric treatment and the family issues, which I had been dealing with. The first year of university proved difficult me, due to the myriad of disturbances in my personal life and my psychiatric diagnosis detracting me from my studies.
Through this winter term I had been facing growing struggles cognitively, emotionally, and physically. My lack of ability to focus on my academics, as well as complete work on deadlines because of my psychiatric issues, as well as dealing with a sibling¿¿s psychiatric issues made this almost impossible. In addition a close family member had past away my first year, and the trauma of this death was still fresh, following me into my winter term. I often found myself confounded, and unable to do things thing, and ultimately overwhelmed by all these issues. This left me in a state of mental unease, and my situation became worse and worse, as my sleep, focus and ability to work was significantly hindered.
From late March into the summer of 2014, my psychiatrist alongside a psychologist diagnosed me with a long-term psychiatric issue (which hadn¿¿t been diagnosed before). Then they began a rigorous treatment, which proved to be very tiresome. This had a great emotional toll on me. Along with the adjustment of medication during these months, my mood, emotions, and thoughts were all over the place, leaving me unable to study or focus on anything else. All these things that were happening in my life made the appeal deadline seem so distant, and to be candid, appeared to be the least of my worries at the time. Thus, I had missed the deadline for the appeal as my treatment followed through into the summer. I would have appealed earlier but when I had found out from my counsellor that I could appeal the deadline after fall term, I was facing grave traumas such as homelessness, suicide, and homophobia.
I sincerely wish I had been able to write my appeal in the twenty-one day deadline. I would greatly appreciate if I was given permission to appeal my marks for the Winter Term of 2014, which evidently show the effect my condition had on my academics. Even though I did miss the deadline, I did receive much needed treatment, which should have been treated in my childhood. However I hope that I can be given a chance to appeal the marks, which I had been unable to do in the allotted time period due to force of circumstance.
Kindly,
Hassan Saleem