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I am in the masters program at RGU in Scotland. I am in the 2nd year and have passed 3 out of the 2 modules from last year. The summer module was neuro and originally I did not pass my OSPE and my Coursework. I resat both the OSPE and the Coursework instead of going on placement between the length of January and March. I indeed passed my OSPE resit but not my coursework and have essentially been withdrawn from my course. I have 20 business days to make an appeal for extenuating circumstances on this or I'm back to the USA with $47,000 of debt and nothing to show for it. Quite a dire situation.
The problem is, and the reason for such poor performance on this coursework was Jan-Mar has been, emotionally speaking, a very difficult period of my life. Without going into too much personal details, the girl the girl I was with cheated on me and then later in march began stalking me and this had immense strain on me and there were days when nothing was getting done. While I did finally have a finish product by the due date, it was poor and not my best effort by a long shot. I look at the paper now and it is just pathetic. While there were other confounding factors for my stress such as my family announcing they couldn't come visit me because they had to pay $5000 for my dad's cataracts surgery (totally understandable) and the death of my uncle. But I've dealt with death in the family before and disappointment like that so to be totally honest I was able to process those emotions normally. But the impact of this relationship had a profound effect on me.
The problem is, besides droves and droves of text logs, I do not have any sort of documentation from a third party aside from my closest friends in that time period that demonstrates indeed I was affected. This is because I thought I had it handled and I was was always taught by my dad to always have a never let them see you sweat attitude in life. You could essentially chop off my leg and ask me how my day is and I'd tell you it's going fine. I do have dyslexia and dysgraphia and the learning center is going to write a letter in support of me and I am going to receive Counselling from the Health and Wellbeing center so they can assess me and potentially write a letter voicing the impact the past has had on me and if need be liaise with a GP.
Does anyone have any advice for me?
The problem is, and the reason for such poor performance on this coursework was Jan-Mar has been, emotionally speaking, a very difficult period of my life. Without going into too much personal details, the girl the girl I was with cheated on me and then later in march began stalking me and this had immense strain on me and there were days when nothing was getting done. While I did finally have a finish product by the due date, it was poor and not my best effort by a long shot. I look at the paper now and it is just pathetic. While there were other confounding factors for my stress such as my family announcing they couldn't come visit me because they had to pay $5000 for my dad's cataracts surgery (totally understandable) and the death of my uncle. But I've dealt with death in the family before and disappointment like that so to be totally honest I was able to process those emotions normally. But the impact of this relationship had a profound effect on me.
The problem is, besides droves and droves of text logs, I do not have any sort of documentation from a third party aside from my closest friends in that time period that demonstrates indeed I was affected. This is because I thought I had it handled and I was was always taught by my dad to always have a never let them see you sweat attitude in life. You could essentially chop off my leg and ask me how my day is and I'd tell you it's going fine. I do have dyslexia and dysgraphia and the learning center is going to write a letter in support of me and I am going to receive Counselling from the Health and Wellbeing center so they can assess me and potentially write a letter voicing the impact the past has had on me and if need be liaise with a GP.
Does anyone have any advice for me?