I know quite a lot of morons, I even work with a number and I would be HIGHLY offended in you using the term moronic.
All of my morons have feelings, hopes, dreams and desires. None of them deserve to be looked down on because of their natural shortcomings.
Even if they do deserve to be shoved in the autoclave and cooked at 121C at 60psi for 2 hrs–hopefully before they can reproduce.
[sub]Re: CRorex----Smartass. :)[/sub]
And thanks bouv, I’m glad you took my comment in the spirit it was intended. I hope you can talk to your prof about at least getting partial credit. If it isn’t specifically in the syllabus you’ve got a pretty good case for a one-time slack-cutting, IMO.
Having had to deal with several of these types of programs, might I suggest that your professor doesn’t know what he’s doing? I can easily see the program defaulting to midnight if only a day is given and not a time as well.
That would’ve pissed me off. I always did homework in the morning during college.
Well, they may not know what they are doing, but now I do have confirmation that they intended the midnight dealine. Today in class they apoligized, because apparantly it was originally set to stop being “live” at Sunday at midnight, as in, a day earlier than what they wanted. So while they apparantly don’t know how to use the system, they do want that deadline. I’m still angry, though.
Consider this a lesson for the future, then. Don’t rely on what is or isn’t printed on the syllabus. If something isn’t completely clear, ask. That something is not on the syllabus is a poor, and in my classes, an unacceptable reason for not turning in homework. Your teacher has probably encouraged you to ask questions. It’s up to you understand your classes’ rules, and to ask questions if something isn’t clear.
If being unable to hear the professor is a problem, get a better seat. Get to class early if you have to. If a tight class schedule is keeping you from doing so, stay after class. If you can’t do that either, contact the prof during his office hours. Very few professors are inaccessible outside of classtime, so there should be little problem in getting hold of them. But even if there is, for gosh sakes, try. If it makes you a few minutes late for your next class one day, isn’t it worth it, if only to avoid these kinds of problems?
Make note of things like the assignment due dates/times. The profs I had were consistent in their assignment-due rules-- every Tuesday, five minutes into class, by e-mail and timestamped before midnight, and so forth. Write the date/time down in your notes. If you think it’ll help, use an assignment book, and make sure every time that you know your work’s due date/time.
All of these things are your responsibility as a student. It’s not your professors’ jobs to make sure you know how to do the work and when it’s due. It’s yours. It won’t be their grades or test scores or transcripts, but yours. Therefore, it’s up to you to make sure everything’s clear. It’s also up to you to cope with changes like these and to learn from your mistakes.
It’s a different class now, isn’t it? Then the rules are subject to change. It doesn’t matter that the systems used are different. It’s just something you have to adjust to. Likewise, it doesn’t matter what your former classes’ rules were. You’re not in those classes anymore, and whatever you’re used to is no longer relevant.
This is not a double standard, it’s a change of rules. And if it’s being upheld consistently, then I don’t see what the problem is. Nowhere is it written that all homework assignments have to be in the same format and due according to the rules for the entire semester.
Like I said, learn from this. In the future, make sure you’re totally clear on when your work is due. And for heaven’s sake, if doing your homework late (after midnight) has such potential to screw you up, start doing it sooner. I got the impression from your OP that you had lots of time to finish your work (enough time to submit revisions, anyway), so IMO finishing it well before it’s due is a good habit for you to get into.
Given the title of the class, they should set the deadline arbitrarily each week, then you have to decide on the best time to submit it.
Heh heh.
That’s actually the best idea I’ve heard yet.
Now there is great customer service for ya. It isn’t like the Prof is doing you a favour (although many think they are) and sharing his boundless wisdom for free after all. It is the OP’s money that is paying him, so to expect a little effort on the teacher’s part to make things clear to his client shouldn’t be too much to expect and ask for.