AKIRA
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Basically I wanted to not bring this up until a final decision has been reached about my academic future. So by reading the title most of you know that i've been kicked out of university. I've been meaning to start this thread ever since april but i've been doing certain things to avoid this fate but clearly, it didn't pay off.
Now this may be a tl;dr so this is a warning, only those who are remotely interested in this should read and maybe give advice or even feel free to joke around because i am in the mood for an LOL ... anyway, here's the story:
1st semester of school I was doing fairly well. 2nd semester is where shit started to hit the fan. I was going through a rough time in my personal life, aka financial/family problems which in turn, took a toll on my school, I ended up failing 2 classes in the winter term. Now, failing 2 classes meant that I had to retake the 2 in the spring in order to get back into my program (computing and network communications) and that I was put on academic probation which meant that the next semester (being spring) I had to not fail ANY courses i took and achieve a minimum of a 60% avg between all the courses I took in the spring. Then I find out that in order for the ontario government to cover the cost of spring courses, i'd have to take a minimum of 3 classes and those classes all must have a failing grade to retake them. So I emailed my math for computer science class prof (who by the way spoke HORRIBLE english and was teaching was 3rd year level math for the first 2 months when i;m in 1st year) I got a 51 in that course which killed my avg further. So I ended up emailing him asking for him to fail me so I can retake the course in the spring along with my other 2 and that way OSAP would cover the costs of all 3 spring courses. So things were set in motion.
I got my schedual, and that's when shit started to go wrong. My math for comp sci (1P67 and calculus class 1P97 classes were at the same time and day). Well, I spoke to the profs about my conflict and they told me that it was the student's responsibility to handle the situation. So since i already paid for these courses, i had no choice but to roll with it and try and make the best out of this situation. Now, taking 3 courses...(full course loads) while having 2 class conflicts is extremely stressful and overwhelming. I ended up having to miss 1 class for an entire month because my 1P67 class was part of my major while my 1P97 wasn't, so 1P67 took precedence. This caused me to fail 1P97 (calc). Well that certainly violated the terms of academic probation. So I emailed my dean and explained to him why I did so poorly on account of me taking more than I can chew and because of having the 2 class conflicts which added to more problems and stress.
The dean agreed to meet with me and he said he was basically willing to let me back in because I seemed to care a lot about my education and was really adamant in coming back and proving I can do much better.
Well that was a week ago and tonight I received this email...1P03 is the comp sci course I took aswell that spring:
Now this may be a tl;dr so this is a warning, only those who are remotely interested in this should read and maybe give advice or even feel free to joke around because i am in the mood for an LOL ... anyway, here's the story:
1st semester of school I was doing fairly well. 2nd semester is where shit started to hit the fan. I was going through a rough time in my personal life, aka financial/family problems which in turn, took a toll on my school, I ended up failing 2 classes in the winter term. Now, failing 2 classes meant that I had to retake the 2 in the spring in order to get back into my program (computing and network communications) and that I was put on academic probation which meant that the next semester (being spring) I had to not fail ANY courses i took and achieve a minimum of a 60% avg between all the courses I took in the spring. Then I find out that in order for the ontario government to cover the cost of spring courses, i'd have to take a minimum of 3 classes and those classes all must have a failing grade to retake them. So I emailed my math for computer science class prof (who by the way spoke HORRIBLE english and was teaching was 3rd year level math for the first 2 months when i;m in 1st year) I got a 51 in that course which killed my avg further. So I ended up emailing him asking for him to fail me so I can retake the course in the spring along with my other 2 and that way OSAP would cover the costs of all 3 spring courses. So things were set in motion.
I got my schedual, and that's when shit started to go wrong. My math for comp sci (1P67 and calculus class 1P97 classes were at the same time and day). Well, I spoke to the profs about my conflict and they told me that it was the student's responsibility to handle the situation. So since i already paid for these courses, i had no choice but to roll with it and try and make the best out of this situation. Now, taking 3 courses...(full course loads) while having 2 class conflicts is extremely stressful and overwhelming. I ended up having to miss 1 class for an entire month because my 1P67 class was part of my major while my 1P97 wasn't, so 1P67 took precedence. This caused me to fail 1P97 (calc). Well that certainly violated the terms of academic probation. So I emailed my dean and explained to him why I did so poorly on account of me taking more than I can chew and because of having the 2 class conflicts which added to more problems and stress.
The dean agreed to meet with me and he said he was basically willing to let me back in because I seemed to care a lot about my education and was really adamant in coming back and proving I can do much better.
Well that was a week ago and tonight I received this email...1P03 is the comp sci course I took aswell that spring:
...cont in next post...I am afraid that I have learned that I cannot modify the terms of your suspension. Your
probation is reviewed at the end of the session (i.e., now) and if you fail a course or
have an average of less than 60% on all courses taken during that session then you are
put on suspension.
In your case, you failed MATH 1P97 and were automatically suspended because you were on
probation. I could withdraw you from the course (cancelling the failure) but that would
leave you with COSC 1P03, which you also failed. If I were to cancel the penalty for the
misconduct (which I am not prepared to do) OR could convince the department to round your
grade up to 50D then your average for the session would remain below 60% and you would
remain on suspension. The fact is, if you had handed in the assignments that you did not
submit you may well have ended up with a grade that would have avoided the suspension.
At this point the only chance that you might have would be to make an appeal to the
Senate Appeals Board but that will not be available to you until towards the end of
September. You can visit the Office of the Registrar to begin such an appeal. Frankly,
I think that the chances of winning such an appeal are very remote given the
circumstances.
If I could modify your suspension I would do so in your case but I am afraid that my
hands are tied and there is now nothing that I can do. I want to stress that you are in
this position because of your lack of effort in COSC 1P03. You knew the conditions of
your probation but you appear to have not taken any steps to protect yourself from
suspension (i.e., even just completing all assignments for the course).
At this point I think that my best advice would be for you to make the best of your time
away.
I am sorry that I cannot help further.