Petition Letter
To the current Academic Associate Dean, my name is Jasmine Zangeneh and I am appealing to add MATH 121 (Fall, 2019) and in turn drop MATH 120 (Fall, 2019). I understand that the deadline to add a course was about a week ago, but I wanted to eliminate any doubt I had in many ways.
The circumstance stemming from COVID-19 have been out of my control regarding how it has been affecting my comfort level within my academics and my academic standing. Originally, I should have recognized that courses being online in combination with the very unfamiliar material would make this course well out of my ability to work through it well. I did not. I take full responsibility for not considering this more in depth when choosing to enroll between MATH 120 and MATH 121. COVID-19 has taken a toll on me mentally that I have called the provided helplines by Queen's University as well as speaking to my Don to figure out my next steps about what I should do.
This course specifically is very rigorous and is highly recommended to work with my peers in the problem sets. I have been doing so by messaging in group chats, zooms, and many other forms of communication. Yet, COVID-19 has prevented me from fully utilizing working with my peers to be able to then work independently well that I feel I am no longer currently fit to take this course. It has also been putting external pressure on me, so working a couple days on one or two questions has put my health in a bad place. Before writing this letter, I wanted to continue to attempt to work through this course by trying the most recent problem set, and I can respectfully say this course is not fit for me as a student. The content in MATH 121 will be much easier for me to integrate myself academically, especially with the peers I have already made friends with. This will lessen the pressure of COVID-19 onto my health dramatically.
I acknowledge my negligence of how I would be affected by COVID-19. So, to succeed in my future studies of MATH 121, I will be utilizing my old notes and saved lectures from the previous year which includes a lot of similar content listed for this course. I have contacted and become friends with a few people enrolled in MATH 121 that have become and will continue to be a great support system for my heath. And through research I have become more aware of COVID-19's pressures to recognize when it is going to affect my stress.
I ask that you please allow to me add MATH 121 (Fall, 2019), which would in turn allow me to drop MATH 120 (Fall, 2019). I believe I have constructed a good plan to deal with these pressures more favourably in MATH 121.
Sincerely,
Jasmine Zangeneh
The circumstance stemming from COVID-19 have been out of my control regarding how it has been affecting my comfort level within my academics and my academic standing. Originally, I should have recognized that courses being online in combination with the very unfamiliar material would make this course well out of my ability to work through it well. I did not. I take full responsibility for not considering this more in depth when choosing to enroll between MATH 120 and MATH 121. COVID-19 has taken a toll on me mentally that I have called the provided helplines by Queen's University as well as speaking to my Don to figure out my next steps about what I should do.
This course specifically is very rigorous and is highly recommended to work with my peers in the problem sets. I have been doing so by messaging in group chats, zooms, and many other forms of communication. Yet, COVID-19 has prevented me from fully utilizing working with my peers to be able to then work independently well that I feel I am no longer currently fit to take this course. It has also been putting external pressure on me, so working a couple days on one or two questions has put my health in a bad place. Before writing this letter, I wanted to continue to attempt to work through this course by trying the most recent problem set, and I can respectfully say this course is not fit for me as a student. The content in MATH 121 will be much easier for me to integrate myself academically, especially with the peers I have already made friends with. This will lessen the pressure of COVID-19 onto my health dramatically.
I acknowledge my negligence of how I would be affected by COVID-19. So, to succeed in my future studies of MATH 121, I will be utilizing my old notes and saved lectures from the previous year which includes a lot of similar content listed for this course. I have contacted and become friends with a few people enrolled in MATH 121 that have become and will continue to be a great support system for my heath. And through research I have become more aware of COVID-19's pressures to recognize when it is going to affect my stress.
I ask that you please allow to me add MATH 121 (Fall, 2019), which would in turn allow me to drop MATH 120 (Fall, 2019). I believe I have constructed a good plan to deal with these pressures more favourably in MATH 121.
Sincerely,
Jasmine Zangeneh