Ooooh! I'm so HAPPY...

steve — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 03:26:00 GMT

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?

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Ooooh! I'm so angry...

steve — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 02:46:00 GMT

Oh man, am I angry. I mean I am spitting fire angry. I probably need to take a double dose of my blood pressure medicine just about now...

I blew it. I logged on to the St. Petersburg College student Web site to submit my assignments for my ethics class, because I knew that the teacher had indicated that the first two assignments were due today. Well, when I sat down and logged in at 7:20 PM, I was unable to access the first two assignments. I wondered what the problem might have been, and then all of the sudden I got an awful sinking feeling. I went to the course syllabus and read it through and, just as I had suspected (ok, just as I had feared) the deadline for assignments in this course is 6:00 PM on the due date.

6:00 PM.

All of my previous classes had a 12:00 midnight due time on the assigned date, but that is absolutely no excuse for my boneheaded mistake. The instructor had spelled it out in no uncertain terms that the deadline was 6:00 and yet for some stupid reason that never clicked in my mind. Also in the syllabus the instructor made it clear that he will not accept late work under any circumstances.

Now I have to proceed in this class with the prospect of having a couple of big, fat zeroes on my record and the unfortunate outlook of having to offset those pathetic grades with a lot of very high marks to balance them out.

Wonderful...

And of course I have only myself to blame. No excuses, nothing to fall back on. I blew it, plain and simple, and I blew it because of my own stupidity. So I'm mad alright, mad at myself.

That's all, I don't feel like writing any more...

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