Petition Letter
Dear Jenn Stephenson Ph.D .
I am appealing the Faculty¿¿s decision to drop Math 110 in Fall 2018.
There are some extenuating circumstances, some unforeseen personal events beyond my control, taking place within the course timeline which have directly affected my academic performance.
One circumstance is that it was quite difficult to adjust to the university life since it was my first time studying abroad alone.¿Without my family's support by my side, I felt quite struggling to balance my academic and personal life; that was the reason I often went to Dr Khanna's- my personal counselor- office in the Student Wellness Service in LaSelle building to seek help. Dr Khanna was very glad to email you with her perspectives on this.
I tried dropping some electives, almost all of them, to salvage my ongoing Math courses and the accumulative GPA because I felt the Math quite challenging. The reason for why this course-Math 110- in particular was affected by
my circumstances and not the other courses I was also taking at the time was that I found it was the most challenging one among all of the courses I was taking. It was difficult for me to recognize the professor¿¿s notes because I was severely nearsighted, and the notes were imperative as they were almost the most useful materials I possessed for this course.The mental illness made it unfeasible for me to focus for a long time to understand the material.
As you can see from the photo failed to be pasted because of technical issues, my nearsightedness for left eye was -5.5, and its for right eye was -7.18 then.
One bad news for me during the exam preparation session was that my mom had a serious surgical operation because of her cervical vertebra disease. That upset me largely because I had no idea if she was completely cured.
Translation of the certificate:
The Third Hospital of Peking University
Diagnostic certificate
Name Tang Qingling
Hospitalization Number 5062382
Sex girl
Age 48 years old
Office Orthopaedics Ward 1
Therapeutic result cured
diagnosis and suggestion
The patient suffered from numbness and pain of the left part of neck and upper limb for more than 10 years and aggravating for 3 years. From March 11, 2019 to March 18, 2019, the patients were hospitalized in our hospital. On March 12, 2019, under general anesthesia, the posterior cervical C3-7 single-door laminoplasty (reserving the posterior muscular ligament complex) was performed successfully. The patient recovered well and was allowed to leave the hospital. She was suggested to rest after being discharged from hospital, to take medicine on time, to visit the doctor regularly¿and to take steps whenever her condition changed.
Discharge diagnosis: 1. Cervical spondylotic radiotelegraphy 2. Hysteromyomectomy
Re-visit date: full discharge in March, re-visit in March
Doctor¿¿s Signature
Tang Yanchao (Seal Effective)
March 18, 2019
Another circumstance was that I was ill close the exam period: it was near the final of Math 110. That was why I went to the Hotel Dieu Hospital Urgent care at downtown to get a prescription from Dr Chris Evans. Unfortunately, the documentation of that prescription was lost during the moving-out.
As most of my extenuating circumstances occurred after the drop deadline, and Math 110 was a prerequisite of the future courses I was expecting to take, I did not drop it prior to the deadline.
My future plan for Math 110 is that I am going to retake it during the Fall 2019- I will enroll it as soon as the course selection is open. I am planning to maintain regular appointments with my personal counselor for academic and personal issues. For the course load, I attempt to have about 4 courses per term, and I will continue going to Summer School to complete sufficient units. Following advice from the staff from SASS, I will modify my patterns for time management to finish assigned tasks more successfully than in the past.
I am appealing the Faculty¿¿s decision to drop Math 110 in Fall 2018.
There are some extenuating circumstances, some unforeseen personal events beyond my control, taking place within the course timeline which have directly affected my academic performance.
One circumstance is that it was quite difficult to adjust to the university life since it was my first time studying abroad alone.¿Without my family's support by my side, I felt quite struggling to balance my academic and personal life; that was the reason I often went to Dr Khanna's- my personal counselor- office in the Student Wellness Service in LaSelle building to seek help. Dr Khanna was very glad to email you with her perspectives on this.
I tried dropping some electives, almost all of them, to salvage my ongoing Math courses and the accumulative GPA because I felt the Math quite challenging. The reason for why this course-Math 110- in particular was affected by
my circumstances and not the other courses I was also taking at the time was that I found it was the most challenging one among all of the courses I was taking. It was difficult for me to recognize the professor¿¿s notes because I was severely nearsighted, and the notes were imperative as they were almost the most useful materials I possessed for this course.The mental illness made it unfeasible for me to focus for a long time to understand the material.
As you can see from the photo failed to be pasted because of technical issues, my nearsightedness for left eye was -5.5, and its for right eye was -7.18 then.
One bad news for me during the exam preparation session was that my mom had a serious surgical operation because of her cervical vertebra disease. That upset me largely because I had no idea if she was completely cured.
Translation of the certificate:
The Third Hospital of Peking University
Diagnostic certificate
Name Tang Qingling
Hospitalization Number 5062382
Sex girl
Age 48 years old
Office Orthopaedics Ward 1
Therapeutic result cured
diagnosis and suggestion
The patient suffered from numbness and pain of the left part of neck and upper limb for more than 10 years and aggravating for 3 years. From March 11, 2019 to March 18, 2019, the patients were hospitalized in our hospital. On March 12, 2019, under general anesthesia, the posterior cervical C3-7 single-door laminoplasty (reserving the posterior muscular ligament complex) was performed successfully. The patient recovered well and was allowed to leave the hospital. She was suggested to rest after being discharged from hospital, to take medicine on time, to visit the doctor regularly¿and to take steps whenever her condition changed.
Discharge diagnosis: 1. Cervical spondylotic radiotelegraphy 2. Hysteromyomectomy
Re-visit date: full discharge in March, re-visit in March
Doctor¿¿s Signature
Tang Yanchao (Seal Effective)
March 18, 2019
Another circumstance was that I was ill close the exam period: it was near the final of Math 110. That was why I went to the Hotel Dieu Hospital Urgent care at downtown to get a prescription from Dr Chris Evans. Unfortunately, the documentation of that prescription was lost during the moving-out.
As most of my extenuating circumstances occurred after the drop deadline, and Math 110 was a prerequisite of the future courses I was expecting to take, I did not drop it prior to the deadline.
My future plan for Math 110 is that I am going to retake it during the Fall 2019- I will enroll it as soon as the course selection is open. I am planning to maintain regular appointments with my personal counselor for academic and personal issues. For the course load, I attempt to have about 4 courses per term, and I will continue going to Summer School to complete sufficient units. Following advice from the staff from SASS, I will modify my patterns for time management to finish assigned tasks more successfully than in the past.