Oh. My. Lord. Forgive me, because I’m about to hop on my soapbox.
I’ve had my fair share of professors throughout my college career. I’m a junior, so I’ve had six semester’s worth of them. I can bet I’ve had every professor in the book. Professors who are the strictest of the strict, the funny professors who should also host comedy shows, the professors who couldn’t care less if you turn in an assignment two months late, etc. Every professor, I believe, teaches students something valuable. However, there’s one type of professor that I can’t stand. Absolutely no disrespect, because our professors work hard…it’s just a big pet peeve of mine.
I’m a full-time student, I have two jobs, I play sports and I also have a social life to maintain and family to check in with. God FORBID I let one assignment slip through the cracks and turn it in late by a day or even an hour. The professors who get it, get it. “Yeah that’s fine Lindsay, no points deducted.” GREAT! Amazing. No harm, no foul. Here’s where my problem comes in. The professors who preach deadlines and don’t give any leeway are the same ones who take the whole darn semester to grade one assignment. Personally, I turn in every assignment on time. I’m pretty good at doing things on time. However, a few times in the year, I’m having a rough day and I can barely muster up the energy to make a sandwich. The last thing I need is a professor who doesn’t grade anything until the end of the semester so I can’t even see how I’m doing in the class. Then they tell me there’s absolutely nothing I can do to make up for it or turn it in late just this once. Then, in a big snowball effect, that zero isn’t put in until the very last minute and I have no time to fix it. Respectfully, either let me turn it in a few hours late or put in my grades that have been sitting there since the first week of classes. But, that’s just my two cents.
