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April 18, 2005
tj 205: week 13 1/2
12 papers out of 18 in within 12 minutes of the due-date--and when "date" is calculated in minutes, i don't mind being a little liberal with them. 2 i expect in by midnight; they're in the hands of last-minute busy-bees who got permission ahead of time to have the extra three hours, one in my good graces and one grudgingly, since she neglected to tell me there was a problem until after the paper was due. my general policy on that sort of thing sounds something like "NO!" she's a good kid, though, with a good track record, & it seems like a mean thing--and not enough of a writing thing--it's a writing class, they need to be graded for writing or not writing, not for proper excuse-making behavior--to hobble her for.
the other 4? no excuses, no sob-stories in my e-mailbox, no last-minute phone calls... so as far as i'm concerned they don't exist. maybe they'll exist in automatically-reduced form tomorrow, & maybe they won't. either way, i'm going to bed rather than sitting up to wait for either the papers or their excuses.
good news is: i graded the first one before the due-date even rolled around, because it was submitted a few hours early, and it was awesome. A for i'm-not-telling-who-yet.
Posted by ttobryan at April 18, 2005 09:54 PM