Last time I told you that I had missed the deadline to submit my first two assignments in my ethics class at St. Petersburg College due to nothing other than my own stupidity. That was the plain, honest, and unvarnished truth. The fact of the matter is, if I had been stuck with a couple of zeroes to kick off this particular class in this particular semester it was something I quite honestly deserved. I was angry last time, very angry, and angry only at myself.
My anger has transformed into relief. I received an e-mail from my ethics instructor that was addressed to the entire class, and in that message he told us that due to some very unusual circumstances this time around, among them the fact that many of us were told by the school and the school's online system that no textbook was required for the course, he plans to reopen the first two assignments two all students later in the semester.
This decision goes against his policy of not accepting late work under any circumstances. I felt it was a pretty generous thing for him to do, and I really do appreciate the opportunity to submit the assignments at a later date. Certainly I had only myself to fault for the stupid mistake, and going forward you can be sure that I won't forget that the deadline in this particular course is 6:00 PM.
On another note, as I said before, my family and I will be taking a trip to Scotland in a few days. We'll be spending a week in Edinburgh, and the apartment we have rented has high speed internet and is equipped with a PC, so I'll be taking my school work with me and I'll continue to blog while I'm overseas. Hey, that will REALLY make this a distance learning exercise...a very long distance.
Ain't the internet great?