It happens to everyone.
And I mean EVERYONE. Including the White Rabbit from Alice in Wonderland. Well, it seems to happen to him a LOT.
An assignment slips your mind or, worse, doesn’t make it onto the calendar. The calendar of assignments that you live and breathe by.
What do you do?
This advice is compliments of my first ACLS teacher. The first thing you do is take your own pulse.
In this instance, taking your own pulse helps you to not panic.
I know wild things are going through your head.
This assignment is going to be late. I’m doomed.
This assignment is going to be SOOOO late. I’m gonna fail.
This assignment is going to be so late that I will have to wail in the afterlife with calendars shackled to my wrists. A la Morley in the Christmas Carol.
Yes, a little book mixing that you didn’t know was possible.
Take a deep breath.
It will be okay.
First things first, email your instructor.
They are people too and they know that life happens. Life definitely makes a habit of getting in the way of adult learning because you probably have a job and responsibilities. Maybe even children.
Now that you’ve emailed your instructor, read the assignment and make a plan to get it done.
Often points will be deducted because it was late. But it is late and this is the way to minimize the fallout. You could just not do the assignment. But then you won’t learn the Student Learning Objective that is often a building block to the next SLO.
Email your instructor and get to work on the assignment. Because points are points.
Do not panic.
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