In response to tmimeh’s post: http://stirlace.blogsome.com/2007/06/06/oh-tim-will-you-ever-win
I don’t know what sort of situation you’re in, but it can’t be any worse than mine – I handed in my previous assignment 5 or 6 days late (depending on whether the submission cutoff is at 5pm, midnight or when Venus and Jupiter are in alignment) and thats at 10% a day. This is for an assignment worth 50%
Luckily it was decided to only remove it from the report which was late, not the model, so it’s only 60% off the report section which makes up 2/3 of that 50%. Still following? Anyway the end result is that I failed my assignment, although not as badly as I thought. It’s somewhere in the mid 40’s although I can’t be sure because we now get little sliders with a fat bar which indicates roughly where our mark is. No I don’t know why either :/
So here I am, with the next/final assignment due for this subject, which unsurprisingly is ALSO worth 50%. The good news is that it’s not due until tomorrow at 4pm. The bad news is that I have a cubic fuckton of work to do for it, on account of my plan to finish the other two assignments I had due this week (Monday and today) a lot earlier – ideally over the weekend – flying out the window in a trajectory I could only describe as “predictable”.
Jet…. Ah yes. At some point I forget when this was, despite having a reminder on my phone calender, and the assumed, and then <i>convinced</i> myself it was on Friday. Because I also have an assignment due on Friday. If you’ve been counting, yes, that’s four assignments in a week. Yipeee. If you do the math, or if I do it for you, that works out to be 39% of my semesters marks all in one week. Anyway, I’m not sure if I will finish this 50% assignment by the 4pm deadline. In which case I technically have until 4pm the next day to make good enough to offset the 10% late penalty. This is hard because really all I need to get is a high pass mark to guarantee that I pass the subject, but to be honest my problem is that I’ve never been capable of producing work of such a low calibre deliberately.
And then there’s the other assignment due on Friday. If I have a report that is of an “acceptable” quality by 4pm tomorrow (definition to be determined at a later time) then I will go to the concert, come home after, do a bit of work and then finish it off on Friday no problems. I have a fair bit of work to do for it, maybe 5-6 hours at a guess. But I have until 5pm on Friday. But if I fuck myself up on the report, then the whole “offsetting the 10% late penalty” likely means that I need to put a lot more work into it, which then means that it’s unlikely I will finish my other assignment on time. I hate this stupid cascade effect, and often if an assignment is late I will endevour to make sure other assignments do not suffer because of it, but in this case passing the first one is much more important than passing the second, for which I am likely close to passing anyway.
If the report isn’t done by 4pm and I don’t think I can offset that 10% by the time the concert starts, Jet is out of the question bigtime. I truly hope that isn’t the case 
