As I sat down this morning to finish three papers for school, I was a bit shocked to see the my Eng 621 deadline has been moved to Thursday instead of Monday. Now, I understand why people need extensions, but we knew about this project from Day 1 of class. The professor gave us the assignment and specifications the Monday before Thanksgiving. Mostly because I asked him if I could work on it over the holiday because I had off of work and I wasn't making a meal. Perfect time to do research, refine ideas for a thesis, and generally get the ball rolling on a senior capstone project of 12 to 15 pages on The Global Early Modern. When I checked my school email this morning, my professor wrote that he's given so many extensions out that he just decided to move the deadline. There are only 11 people in this class. I know that three of them for sure asked for later deadlines and when I met with him on Wednesday he said that one of my classmates had met with him earlier to DISCUSS topics. Really? Really!? I looked at him and said, college is sometimes wasted on the younglings. I work a full-time job, run the household, all the errands, and still fit six credits of upper level classes into my life. The difference is, I know how to plan and parcel my time. My youngling classmates, however, think they can just produce a paper, and not just any paper, but a senior capstone thesis paper, in a day. Write it the night before. I hope that at some point, they learn a lesson here, but I'm not sure that they do. I'm a bit angry because I dedicated three full weekends to just WRITING this paper.
I only need to write 3 more pages, expand some sections, clarify a few points, and proof and polish. I worked my butt off to get to this point and yet my youngling classmates were screwing around doing whatever they felt like and then come begging for more time because the professor is nice enough to give them that time. They are taking advantage of him because he's a nice guy. I'm a bit angry because that's not respectful to do that, and they should know better at this point how that is not a decent thing to be doing. Our future will be run buy these kids that know more about working the system than actually working with the system.
I will hand my paper in at the first deadline. Then, I will concentrate on getting my house in order because it was a busy semester and there's a lot that needs to be done. I'd actually like to put a Christmas tree up this year because I miss it. We haven't had one for the past few years, and it's a bit depressing to not have one, I think. I also just want to be done. I'm tired, a bit run-down, and need to recharge a bit. I want to work on my chain maille projects that are building up in my room begging me to work on them. I want to clean my room so I can move around in it without playing out Godzilla and knocking stuff over when I try to walk around in here. So, with that said and vented, I'm off to finish my THREE papers by tomorrow evening. I even want to email them a day before the deadline in case they don't get them so I can email again, or (Heaven forbid) take paper copies to them on Monday. I bet those younglings don't even consider what would happen if they couldn't email their papers...
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