The worst part of graduate school - aside from the endless hours of homework, heavy-duty reading assignments, completing research, finding time to maintain personal relationships, the strenuous hours of teaching courses, lack of benefits, poor respect and horribly long hours - are the idiotic students.
Today, there was an assignment due in the anatomy and physiology laboratory I teach. Well after class ended, I received four email messages from a few irresponsible students asking if they could turn in the assignment next week due to the fact they forgot, did the wrong assignment, didn't read their syllabus, or [insert some other lame excuse here]. It clearly states in their syllabus that late assignments are not accepted.
I guess for some students, college isn't the place to be until they learn how to read and/or be responsible for themselves.
Today, there was an assignment due in the anatomy and physiology laboratory I teach. Well after class ended, I received four email messages from a few irresponsible students asking if they could turn in the assignment next week due to the fact they forgot, did the wrong assignment, didn't read their syllabus, or [insert some other lame excuse here]. It clearly states in their syllabus that late assignments are not accepted.
I guess for some students, college isn't the place to be until they learn how to read and/or be responsible for themselves.
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"Sir;
It was my mistaken impression, somehow, that the response paper was due on the 29th of January and not the 27th. I was ill on the 21st through the 27th,
and including today (however I am feeling better today) with stomach cramps, and severe dehydration however I did not go to the doctor because my health insurance has lapsed and it costs me money I don't have to go. I did not intentionally miss the deadline, and I am wondering if (while the syllabus says no exceptions, I know) there might possibly be an exception for a grade-point reduction or something? I have looked at my other classes to see if there was anything due on the 29th, I am not really aware of where that date came from or
why it's firmly lodged in my brain as the due date."
When i went to GM for my automotive degree, i was as serious as a heart attack - Dean's list or President's list every semester.
It helps if the student is paying for it themselves, and they are studying something they enjoy.
Those late students can learn now that there is no do-over in real life. You miss a big deadline at work, you get fired.
C'est la vie.