I struggled all day yesterday writing a critique of a (truly fascinating) research article that was due today. Despite my interest in the topic (how word choice of questions can “lead” witnesses or disrupt their memories of events even when time has passed) I just couldn’t write the review. My mind kept wandering, skipping from one thing to another. I swear it was like I had ADD. I also had some questions about formatting the paper, but the prof wasn’t available; she doesn’t check her email very often and never checks her voicemail. The upshot was that I pulled my first all-nighter of the semester and had a pretty crappy paper to show for it. I also have a take-home midterm scheduled in that class this week as well.
So I show up for class today, barely able to hold my head upright, and she starts collecting the take-home Midterms. What?! What doesn’t she collect? The article review! Ugh!
It turns out that during class last Thursday (I was out sick) it was decided that making us have both a paper and a midterm due the same week was too much. So she gave everyone the midterm to take over the weekend at their convenience and which was to be handed in today, and changed the due date of the review to next Tuesday.
And she never let me know.
The bad news is that I’m sooo sleep deprived right now (only got 4-5 hrs. of sleep/night this past week for various reasons), and I only have until Thursday to take the midterm.
The good news is that I now know how the review needs to be formatted and have an excellent rough draft to work from. I should be able to turn in my final draft along with my midterm over the next couple of days and be done with the class for a couple of weeks (surgery next week and spring break the following).
Better yet, that same class is cancelled Thursday morning (it’s my 8 AM class) and as of right now it doesn’t look like I’ll have to come in for the following class either. So I can sleep in that day and just show up to turn in that stuff and take my Islam midterm Thursday afternoon.
Hurray for that I say!
