Circular logic and tautologies

[icarus]

Staying up didn't get anything accomplished, I'm just more tired and more frustrated.

I'm going in circles with this draft.

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ETA: So which is the better strategy? Go to the last day of class and beg (bearing in mind that I had to ask for a reprieve for something else in the class and I really, really, really don't want to)? Or go home, sleep, and make up an excuse from a safe distance?

Comments

[libitina]

So I ended up with a lot of experience with extensions in college. It is always easier to hide under the covers and send an email, but it is better and more honorable to show up and ask properly. I have only had one professor ever (and she was a nutjob) hold an extension request against me personally. And sometimes what is said in the class that day helps you get an idea on how to go on with the paper. Or, if you talk about it in person, the professor can give you an angle that will help.

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Well, it is the most honorable thing. Tell me something I don't know. But I'm miserable to have to ask given the history with this particular professor. I just don't want to face him. Additionally, it's a small class and some of them have been my tutoring students. I'd be forced to ask him in front of them. Also, I'm so wiped out, I'm practically falling over here. I just want to go home and sleep.

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Was that an irritable response to your perfectly well-intentioned advice?

Sorry. I really am beat.

[libitina]

It was exactly the right response - since you have gone and answered exactly what you need to do with all of the justifications you need. At this point you are just asking for permission - from the internet. I'd just suggest that you might feel a little better if you made a point of getting the email sent before the class would start... and then turn off the computer and go to sleep for a bit.

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Actually, I decided you were right and went. :)

Turns out I didn't have time to talk to the professor, so I'll have to email him anyway. So I got to be there, have the benefit of the class and evade discussing the paper. The best of both worlds. Sort of. *sheepish, guilty grin*

Well done....

[alfrenne.livejournal.com]

Er, you don't know me at all (unless you can hear my admiring squeeing from where I am every time I catch an update to OOBounds, and how I may send my therapy bills to you when my newfound obsession with iceskating takes over my life...but anyway), but I just want to say congrats on braving the class and agree that these things are exactly as horrific as they seem.

I had an essay due yesterday too, and when I came home I slept for eighteen hours, and if, in the run up to completing it, someone has offered me a one-way ticket to inner Mongolia, or a lifetime of harvesting cocoa beans in Peru with no clothes on, I would have gone instead. I've been quite sick off and on for a few years and that awful crawling feeling of having to go BACK to a professor and ask for an extension/make an excuse is just awful. Like, seriously, it is BAD. I have been in every conceivable nightmare situation as regards absences, deadlines and excuses, and each time I vow, never again! Ah well. Sometimes it's even worse when professors are nice about it, weirdly. And that awful stage you reach when you can't make decisions on tiny things and would sell your soul for ten seconds of sleep and are semi-hallucinating into the bargain makes it hard to believe the nightmare will ever just be over already.

At least now you have some moral high ground to occupy :) And also a pleased feeling that you braved the class. Well done! Seriously, it's a big deal going in. I fell asleep in my class yesterday, but it gained me extra sympathy and I handed up my work. Hope this thing works out for you,and that all these nightmarish assignments are soon behind you.

Alfrenne
(ps - I LOVE OOBounds. I'm trying to formulate feedback that isn't overly gushing. It will come, in time, and until then I will continue to read on the bad days when I need cheering up :)

Re: Well done....

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

I don't know what to say, except thank you.

You can gush if you like. :D Though con-crit is also welcome. Out Of Bounds is a story I've given to my dad in bits and pieces, and he's not the gentlest critic.

[libitina]

*whew* Good luck with the rest (checking my email before seeing if you have updated about how it's going - but good luck nonetheless).