How long can you use a family death to excuse missed schoolwork?!
Question: How long can you use a family death to excuse missed schoolwork?
I just calculated what my grades will probably be, and because of the large amounts of missed work, my grades are absolutely terrible.
I know my university will forgive unfinished work in the case of three reasons: compassionate, psychological, and medical. Last semester I was not required to finish all of my assignments because of the death. Now I'm wondering if they would think I was just being lazy if I tried to claim my father's death for this semester's missed work. Should I ask them to excuse my work based on my father's death, or on my depression (I can very easily get a note from my doctor in regards to the depression, as he's been trying to find the right anti-depressant for me for years, and also knows that I struggle with an eating disorder, which has also affected my grades), or on both the depression and the father? Or should I just suck it up and deal with the bad grades (which would mean I would be unable to transfer to another school next year, as I had hoped)?
Answers:
I'm sorry hunny :(
I think that it's more the depression that is stopping you doing work. I've been there and it's not a nice place. Where you can't actually be bothered to do anything, and having a shower is a massive achievement.
If your uni will forgive unfinished work for psychological reasons, why not just tell them that you have depression? It will save a lot of arguments and teachers just saying that you can't be bothered...
In the mean time are you on meds for depression? Have you got a counsellor at uni? I think you might need more help than you're getting sweetie :)
Hope you feel better soon xxx
i'm very sorry.and he died in november and it's april!
Not good at all.
make sure you make up your homeowork