I teach accounting. My college decided a few years ago to split a 14 week course into two, 7 week courses. I do not approve. I do not get to choose. So. We now have 4 separate courses, where we used to have two.

In the first part of the current semester, there was a strike, and snow, and various and sundry acts of God that made everyone’s head fall off. Consequently the due dates for the two exams, midterm and final, were changed, and I allowed a do over for the midterm because it was seriously a cluster fucking shit show.

Fast forward to the current course. Several students take the first course, and then follow it the seconde 7 weeks with the second course. These are stand alone courses, although the first is prerequisite for the second.

A student in my first course decided to email me her midterm 30 minutes late for the current course. I was in a mood and shot back, “explain to me why I should accept this late?” It clearly states in the syllabus that no late submissions will be accepted. She sent back a long email laying out all the other things she had to do for the 9 days the midterm was open. Obviously, they were all more important than completing this exam on time. I said, nope, not accepting it. She stayed after class and tried to convince me that I should accept it. Again, I said no.

Can we assume that no one has ever told this girl no before?

The next day, I get an email stating that she’s initiating a formal appeal. She’s basing this on what happened in the previous course. Umm, no. I refrained from responding, instead I sent all of it to the Dean. Today, the Assistant Dean got back to me. He said, nope, don’t respond yet, and furthermore, she’s pretty much full of shit. Okay, he didn’t say that, but it’s what he meant.

Meanwhile, this is something I really don’t want to deal with. Geesh!

In other news, Bear got his treatment on Monday, He will be tired for a day or so and then hopefully feeling better by Thursday. I think I’ll make a chocolate cake on Friday.