Too Poor To Pay Attention

I saw that phrase on a shirt once and thought it was funny. Now I'm living it. As you may recall, I'm taking some Summer classes online. One of those exciting classes is "Economic History of the U.S.". As I was plugging along doing my assignments, I noticed it said they were all due May 29th. I thought the teacher just hadn't adjusted the dates from Spring semester yet, and they were not actually all due then. Lucky for me, I have tried to stay ahead in all my classes, so I completed the entire 1st unit, and a small part of the 2nd (there are only 3 units total). So 3 weeks into class (May 28th) I e-mailed my teacher and asked if those were the correct due dates. I just couldn't figure out why everything would be due after 3 weeks when the Summer semester doesn't end until August 5th. That is when I received a brief, but very informative e-mail, to this effect:

"Tomorrow, 5/29/08, the 3-week Econ 1740-41 DVD course will conclude. Most students have completed the homework sections and the first two exams. The final exam remains open for you to complete.

If you have issues please contact me.

Good luck."

I didn't know I was supposed to have a DVD, and I definitely did NOT realize the class was only 3 weeks long. 3 WEEKS!!!! Why would anyone want to take a 3-week course in the Economic History of the U.S.?? Maybe to get it over with, but that's a LOT of economics in 3 tiny little weeks. I will never make the grand mistake of not knowing exactly when a course starts and ends--and if it includes DVD lectures--again! In fact, I better go check my other classes to make sure none of them are 4-week courses...

That little "whooshing" breeze you heard just now was my 4.0 floating out the window... (At least I'm still going to the gym, or I'd be a total failure). I'm pretty sure I botched that. I did receive an e-mail from the Professor again this morning, and he said he would be willing to extend the homework and quiz dates for a couple of days, which I thought was incredible, and extremely compassionate, since I was dumb and didn't read the information on my schedule. The one problem is, you can only take the quizzes once, and I crammed them all in yesterday (I even roped Josh's cousin [who is a Jr. in High School] into sticking around and helping me with the questions since he is a History buff [and because he has had history far more recently than I have]--unfortunately he happens to prefers Art history to Economic history... ;) Thanks Christian!) I'm hoping the professor can work with me, since he saw my determination to finish. I mean really, who does 36 homework assignments in 1 day? Especially Economics...sheesh! Needless to say, I'm pooped. I think I'm going to double check all my other classes now... I'm just praying I won't end up doing 36 Psychology assignments today!