Academic Plan
I actually just found out about the ability to appeal when I talked to a Queen's faculty member about taking the year off who recommend I should appeal. As mentioned above, I have been seeing a lot of doctors in the past month. I just started a new medication for my depression. I am also on the waitlist to see a psychiatrist at the North York General Hospital. I am also in an ongoing sleep test for my sleep clinic to truly diagnose that I have Idiopathic Hypersomnia. My plan is to take the year off to get well and develop a new sense of motivation. I plan to really think about what I want to do and to take action even if that means to change my program. The thing is I do not want my first-year marks to harm my chance of switching programs if I choose to do so. I know my first-year marks are not a true representation my academic capabilities and my passion for learning when I am in my normal healthy state of mind. I really would like to come back to a Queens in a year with a clean slate and my courses dropped, so that I can come with a new sense of drive to prove myself. If dropping all courses is not possible, I really need would really like the most I can to make sure it does not harm my grades, by either dropping a few courses or if there is an alternative option. I just really want to go back to Queens without the feeling that I am stuck back in the program that I am not happy in because of grades that truly do not represent my full potential.