I think it doesn't matter that it's the mid semester break -- Monday - Thursday (excluding the public holiday) are still working days and a 10% deduction applies for each day. You should check with your coordinator
Apply for special consideration. Include evidence showing that you were debating etc and contact the coordinator again and explain what happened. Most will be sympathetic given the circumstances
Try to access a computer at uni or your local library. There's hardly anyone using the computers in the uni libraries during the break and you can book them for 3 hrs at a time so if you do that in advance it's better than your current situation
Fair enough, thanks for the info :/
My application was probably rejected on two grounds 1. Applying after the due date is really messy and 2. My grounds for applying aren't officially recognised. Even if I were to get the equity team involved or apply for special consideration ( through seeing counsellors to get documentation for a bunch of things), I would only be able to do so after the mid semester break, with the probability of missing the last day to get my assignment marked and my attempts rejected. It's best that I try to get it done as soon as possible and redo the assignment if need be.
I semi-ranted to my psych tutor how seeing a counsellor to get special consideration was extremely inaccessible for some people, forcing them to suffer in silence. I am emotionally and psychologically unable to see a counsellor because of a traumatic experience with one (it's one of the things where to speak up for the first time, the person betrays you, making almost impossible for you to open up again, because it's emotionally draining with little to no benefit). The first time I opened up to a friend when I was in my first year of high school about what was happening at home, who told a teacher who told a counsellor. The teacher and counsellor manipulated me, telling me to talk to the counsellor because EVERYTHING is confidential without listing out the exceptions. The same afternoon I first spoke to the counsellors, got the department of human services staff to come to my school who took me to the police station that night where I had to face my parents as well. Many people who haven't been in that situation who understand the way I feel about police intervention. 1. It's difficult for most people to understand what being an only child with two separated parents (has been that way since I was two) living in the same home with an emotionally and physically abusive arrangement is like, and the increased instability that I faced from filing intervention orders given that I was often used by them as a means of regaining control or as a leverage against the other parent when I was angry at one (before I left), 2. People don't understand how you can have feelings for people that have never gave you love and did bad things to you, but it's difficult seeing people whose parents died at a very young age, who struggle economically, in an abusive relationship, very depressed (although they are unable to admit it but you fear that they go to breaking point when something like this happens), sometimes you are the only person that can have feelings for them. Ever since things that gone downhill, I have an anxiety disorder, perpetual trauma and depression, low self-esteem, survivor's guilt, struggling in school and I don't feel like I can talk to a counsellor about it because 1. traumatic experience with one and 2. I went to a selective school where I learned to suppress these things as it is stigmatized, a teacher who is head of curriculum insensitively suggested to me that I could have Autism as well as a few other disorders because I was introverted ( not realizing that it was a result of everything I went through) .
2. I have a cognitive disability (a stroke when I was young) which affects me minimally physically but somewhat more learning wise ( I find concentrating and taking in large chunks of info in a short amount of time). I never used this for any kind of special consideration in the past through my school life because I have had it used against me. My parents have used my disability to law enforcement agencies and the police to suggest that I was mentally ill and difficult to justify their abuse.
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