an honest MISTAKE...twice
Here I sit, for the next 80 minutes, to contemplate my fate. In essence, what is at stake is my ability to graduate from Graduate School. Why? Because of Theology Survey. What's the problem with Theology Survey? My work is late. Why is my work late? Because I'm an idiot. For the last two months, I have been operating under the notion that my Semlink Theology Survey work was due on March 7th, 2007. 03/07/07. However, this is not correct. Somehow I interpreted 2007-03-03 as being March 7th instead of March 3rd. How could I do that? Why would I be so stupid? I saw the 3 and the 7 and I rushed to judgment. I rushed incorrectly. So now I face the reality that I took my final on March 6th and handed in my paper on March 7th. What will become of me? I suppose what lies ahead is a typical foray into a world (GCTS academia) filled with laws and grace, deadlines and people, rules and discretion. By grace, it's a no-brainer. It's an honest mistake and I did all my work and because of the weekend, I'm actually only two days late. But by law, I'm late. And the Semlink rules say that late work, submitted without an extension, is not permissible. So what will become of me? I sit and wait with anxiety, hope and anticipation for the lesson God will teach me through this.
As if this mistake wasn't troubling enough, let's talk about what I did earlier in the day. For no good reason, when taking my final essay exam, I decided to answer TWO out of the five questions rather than the required THREE. Somehow I confused the TWO hour time period that I had to take the exam with the number of questions I had to answer. After an hour and 35 minutes, I had completed my two essays and handed in my test. About an hour and a half later, I realized when talking to b. that I may have screwed up. In the back of my memory, "the final will consist of five essay questions of which the student will answer three" started to ring audibly in my brain. Did I only answer two??? Was I supposed to answer three and I only answered two??? I raced home. I raced to the syllabus to find my fears confirmed. I raced to the library, where my admission of stupidity was met with some temporary grace as they allowed me to use my remaining minutes to answer a third essay. Keep in mind that this third essay wasn't that good, as I scribbled with sweaty arm-pits, emotional turmoil and self-condemning fear.
To think, that after all that happened, I realized that all my work was late...
As if this mistake wasn't troubling enough, let's talk about what I did earlier in the day. For no good reason, when taking my final essay exam, I decided to answer TWO out of the five questions rather than the required THREE. Somehow I confused the TWO hour time period that I had to take the exam with the number of questions I had to answer. After an hour and 35 minutes, I had completed my two essays and handed in my test. About an hour and a half later, I realized when talking to b. that I may have screwed up. In the back of my memory, "the final will consist of five essay questions of which the student will answer three" started to ring audibly in my brain. Did I only answer two??? Was I supposed to answer three and I only answered two??? I raced home. I raced to the syllabus to find my fears confirmed. I raced to the library, where my admission of stupidity was met with some temporary grace as they allowed me to use my remaining minutes to answer a third essay. Keep in mind that this third essay wasn't that good, as I scribbled with sweaty arm-pits, emotional turmoil and self-condemning fear.
To think, that after all that happened, I realized that all my work was late...
posted by J B at 8:36 AM
1 Comments:
As you have pointed out many times in the past, and as the book of Ecclesiastes also states: In the course of human events, there comes a time and a season for all things. It was certainly time for you to start a blog. It is also time for you to have a comment. Blogs are more fun when you know that someone is reading.
And now it's time for me to try to make you feel better. When I was finishing up my bachelor's degree at Grace, I was taking a couple of courses at UNL since I was living in Lincoln at the time. I had also taken a summer course there once or twice over the years. When it came time to submit my transcripts and graduate, I was told that I took the same course at UNL twice.
How could this be I of course wondered. I remember being pretty sure they had different course titles, both had something to do with philosophy I think. Or maybe they didn't have different titles and I just wasn't remembering what I had taken a couple of years before.
Hopefully none of your mistakes will cause you to have to take 3 credits over again.
Mark
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