I cannot believe I forgot to take the Syllabus Quiz for IDH.
A person as anal-retentive and OCD as myself forgot to take the little quiz that signifies the start of the course, grade-wise. Although it's 10 points and doesn't mean a significant chunk of my grade is in peril, I do prefer to have a back-up perfection established in the case that I fail any of the serious, difficult assignments that are due at a later date. But that still doesn't take away from the fact that I feel like an idiotic high school student who forgets to do assignments before the date that they are due and whines when they find out they didn't get credit. I didn't whine, but I was very angry at myself for letting such a stupid little thing such as that set me back.
Now, in order to pass the class, I'll need to get full points on everything else. Participation and attendance I don't think I'll have a problem with, but in the case that I slip up and forget to do extra credit assignments, there is no way in Earth, Hell, or Heaven or even FanFicland that I will pass that class... with an A.
I'm in the Honors College here, people. Get with the program. A B is acceptable if and only if I'm struggling with the most difficult class ever established in the universe. This B in Leadership is like getting an F in Spanish 1 for Non-Native Speakers... How much of a failure do I have to be to fail that if I'm CUBAN! That's not the case; I've always excelled in my language courses, especially English. I always tend to excel in most of the courses I take, regardless of what they are. Except for that one time in calculus. And that one time in Biology.
So, you can see why this is bothering me so much. I can't think of how bad of a failure I have to be to forget to do the first assignment of the course. I did the discussion questions for WOH, and very seriously, might I add. I took notes of the first 2 chapters of ARH, and very analytically thought them out. I did the first questions for a short story in ENC, and actually worked hard on trying to understand Updike's real dilemma and message behind all the sexual innuendos. I submitted my first MyMathLab assignment 2 days before the due date. I read and answered questions for my PLA introduction. I applied for the Protocol Seminar a week in advance. This was a mistake that I will, at all costs, try to prevent. From now on, everything DATED will be HIGHLIGHTED and mycourses.mdc.edu will be on my favorites bar. Why in the natural realm would I ever even have the slightest slip-up in forgetting to take a FIVE question quiz that took only TEN minutes about a stinking SYLLABUS?!
I will blame only myself and accept no excuses for my less than responsible attitude. I'll take this and move on, keeping it as a reminder of the things I need to do to prevent another failure.
