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TIFU by not bringing my journal to class. Now I have an insane 15 page research paper worth 150 points.

For some context I go to a college prep high-school and I have an A day B day schedule where I only bring B day stuff B day and same for A day. It’s just too heavy to bring everything everyday. You can probably see where this is going.

So last week I noticed my backpack was getting really heavy to where it was hurting my shoulders. Last Thursday night I found some free time and took every class out of my binders and took out any papers that I didn’t need (like two 50 page packets) then I reorganized them into A day and B day binders. Friday was a B day so I packed my B day binder in my backpack and some A day homework incase I found free time to work on it.

Fast forward to last period, I have a class called Great Books where we analyze texts and do Socratic seminars on them. I then realize that I left my big ass 3 subject great books journal at home with my text and seminar discussion questions/pre work. The class policy is that you have to complete your pre work and bring that and the text to class for both days of the seminar or you’ll have to do a 15 page research paper answering the pre work questions and considering other points of view with 5 pieces of evidence for each question. It’s also worth 150 points. 😭

The full requirements of the project is: -finish the pre work (4 questions with 1 piece of evidence each (20 points)

-analysis response for 4 questions (2 pages for each question) -2 pieces of evidence from the text in each response -3 pieces of evidence from researched sources each -address each of the 4 questions with different viewpoints to make up for the Socratic seminar (80 points)

-write 4 more level 5-6 socratic seminar questions -provide a detail response to each -2 pieces of evidence from the text each -2 pieces of evidence from researched sources each -must be 5-6 pages total for this part (50 points)

Total of 150 points.

This assignment is insane.

I mistakenly thought that we had another class period to work on our pre work and wasn’t aware the seminar was that Friday. I also didn’t realize I forgot my notebook until that period. I have now spent my entire weekend doing this research paper along with other homework.

Thankfully this isn’t due until next Thursday but like I said, I go to a college prep school, so I’ll have lots of other homework throughout the week. My school is also very far away from my house. So I only have an hour on the bus ride home plus 5 hours at home to actually do homework because of my long bus rides. Not including time to eat and take breaks. I’m screwed.

TLDR: forgot to bring my notebook to class, now I have a 15 page research project with 6 days to complete and it’s worth 150 points. I also have 7 other classes that may assign homework before then.

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