Monday, January 12, 2009

For all you students out there...

Just for those students who are reading this (or those who know a student: give them this tip):

If you are late in turning in your last homework assignment, which is composed of three, not-so-short problems, and your instructor is so kind as to just give you an incomplete (which was very kind considering your instructor made it very clear that the homework was due by noon on a certain Friday before your instructor was leaving town for two weeks for a rather important Christian-induced capitalistic holiday), do not do the following set of steps.

1.) Be unapologetic in an email by saying, "I gave my homework to another student at 2:30pm today" (note the late time).
2.) When you are told by instructor then that he is out of town, so you can scan the homework and email it to him because you want the homework, say, "And there's a problem with the HW - the room with the scanner is closed (today is Sunday) and I can not scan it. And early tomorrow I am leaving for two weeks." With no apology.
3.) When your instructor says you can leave the homework in his mailbox and it will be graded upon return, ignore this and not do so.

And perhaps the most important thing: When you finally turn in the homework, be sure to have done more than one-third of one of the problems! If that were the case, you could have easily done one of two things: You could have used that extra three week period to do the assignment, or you could have at least just emailed the instructor saying that you didn't really finish the homework and will take a drop. In the first instance, you would have gotten credit, but in the second you wouldn't have gotten any extra points really by turning in the homework!

by Topher at 10:16 AM |