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[232/366] 24 hours to save the world
Aug. 19th, 2020 02:54 pmOkay remember how I said I only had that exam left, and it starts today and it's open-book so it's for a week so I'll be done in a week?
When I looked at the test paper this morning, I'm damn lucky I noticed that it said, along with all the introductory stuff I already knew like the date and the name of the course, "answers must be submitted within 24 hours." I'd already looked at the questions, and they seemed difficult even when I had a whole week to finish them. So I thought surely not, surely this lecturer just copied and pasted the wrong thing or mixed it up with something else... Surely the timetable collated for the whole School of Arts, Languages and Cultures hadn't been telling me the wrong thing for weeks.
So, more frantic emails. Luckily this time it didn't take two or three days to get a reply; I marked it as urgent and it really was treated as such. The answer was not what I was expecting: I only have 24 hours.
I'm really not thrilled about this; I would have organized some spoons differently if I'd known (and disabled students with chronic pain or fatigue or other conditions would be much more affected in this way than I was!), I wouldn't have stayed up until 1 last night, I would actually have gotten out of bed and been at my computer by the time the test paper was released (I was close but I was being pretty chill about it because it was still so early in the morning and, having woken up at 6, I was pretty underslept).
But, no time to argue now. The questions are hard. So these are all the words I have today. And...by tomorrow morning, I will officially not have anything else to do for uni, I guess!
When I looked at the test paper this morning, I'm damn lucky I noticed that it said, along with all the introductory stuff I already knew like the date and the name of the course, "answers must be submitted within 24 hours." I'd already looked at the questions, and they seemed difficult even when I had a whole week to finish them. So I thought surely not, surely this lecturer just copied and pasted the wrong thing or mixed it up with something else... Surely the timetable collated for the whole School of Arts, Languages and Cultures hadn't been telling me the wrong thing for weeks.
So, more frantic emails. Luckily this time it didn't take two or three days to get a reply; I marked it as urgent and it really was treated as such. The answer was not what I was expecting: I only have 24 hours.
I'm really not thrilled about this; I would have organized some spoons differently if I'd known (and disabled students with chronic pain or fatigue or other conditions would be much more affected in this way than I was!), I wouldn't have stayed up until 1 last night, I would actually have gotten out of bed and been at my computer by the time the test paper was released (I was close but I was being pretty chill about it because it was still so early in the morning and, having woken up at 6, I was pretty underslept).
But, no time to argue now. The questions are hard. So these are all the words I have today. And...by tomorrow morning, I will officially not have anything else to do for uni, I guess!