Lesson 3 - Due Dates

Holy Chipotle!

This past month and a half have been the most jam packed and busy I have been......ever. With 3 mid-terms, two presentations and four papers done I thought I would finally be able to relax (and you know finish that other blog post). But that is when I realized "oh wait! Its December, this means exams and getting my Christmas cards and gifts for others prepared". Joy, YES! Joy to the season of Christmas, but evil death glare to the season of exams! GRRR. Why is it that professors feel the need to assign due dates all within the same week or day of your other 4 courses. There are many theories to this, here is what seems to be the most popular.

It is a bright sunny August day! All the students are either working hard and preparing to get terribly drunk that night, or all the students are relaxing doing nothing except preparing to get terribly drunk that night. The professors have a due date, their assignment....hand in their course syllabus with reading schedule, and assignment due dates in tact. In lieu of the fact that they are inside this wonderful day and all the students are getting trashed, they decided to royally screw all the student come November and December. All it took was that one bitter professor to blurt out, "HEY! Let's really get them! They screw them so hard they will become social hermits of fail out of the class". All the other professors jumped up and cheer in agreement. It is at this point that one poor student felt a strange rumble and realized that they were all screwed.....royally. It was his mission to inform all the other students that they needed to get things done early. This student began his mission that night and ended when everyone became social hermits or were so piss drunk the night before a mid-term that he was glad to see them fail.


And back to reality. I don't understand why professors do that. Is it that they genuinely don't know or think that students have any other courses with any other due dates or readings. I mean really, as a full time student I have five courses I need to read for, why do professors feel they need to assign 100 to 130 pages of readings a week. I would just love to see one professor assign something that is due in September and then have the regular mid term and exam. If just one or two of my professors did that, my life would be so much less hectic.

Enough of my whining and complaining. We all got through it and now its time to prep for exams. But right now I am going to do what students seem to be best at, procrastinate!