Oh Friday, you almost had me beat!

So... I worked last night/this morning, went to my 8am, drove home, and fell asleep. And overslept. I woke up at 2:30 and needed to be back on campus by 3:05 for calculus. This raised more than one problem.

1) the drive and walk to class are over half an hour combined
2) I hadn't looked over the test at all so knew I would be unable to ask any intelligent questions about it
3) I hadn't yet typed my EC (which I really need)
4) I still smelled like hoagie

The extra credit essay was what I was most concerned with... I drove like a demon-out-of-hell to get here, ran/clomped to class (not thinking and in my rush to get ready to run out the door I put my heavy-as-hell boots on), and marched into class nearly on-time. Everyone handed their stupid papers in... and, like some sort or mentally retarded, socially inept, general-fuck-up-in-life, I timidly asked, "Can I email you my paper?" and followed it it up with my most pathetic can-you-please-cut-me-a-break smile. She didn't say yes. She didn't say no. She just gave me that look that means she disapproves of my request to save a tree and desire to take up space in her email 'inbox' (which I made sound like I had indeed already written... just had not yet printed).

Whatever... so I drove half an hour to get to class and the fucking thing lasts ten minutes. NO LIE! Which, annoying as it was, gave me an opportunity to run to the nearest computer lab, whip up a paper (sugar coated BS), and email it to her so that she'll hopefully have it before she sits down at her desk to sip her afternoon vodka (her name is Trubnik. It's a bad Russian joke.). So now it's 3:45 and I've attended class, typed my extra credit, emailed it to her (which included a lot of groveling and whining and asking for her understanding in the matter), and now have blogged... all within the past 40 mins!! I'm ready for a nap.

Here is my most delightful extra credit essay for calculus II :

When Will I use Calculus II in my Career

-While I am not positive that I’ll ever need to use calculus in my day-to-day work within the industry, most undergraduate Food Science programs around the country require that their students take calculus II.
-In the past, I have asked my advisor why we were required to take it and the best answer he could come up with was, “Because other food science programs make kids take it.” Basically, he was admitting that he has no idea what’s going on nor why our curriculum is the way it is (which is an entirely different story), but I think I’ve come up with passable reason for this decision.
-A year ago, when I co-oped at Campbell’s Soup Company, located in Camden, NJ, I discovered that nearly everyone that worked there had a master’s degree. Whether is be in food science, business, law, food engineering, etc. Even if you come to Campbells with a mere bachelors degree, they will encourage you and pay you to complete a masters program. Unfortunately for me, I believe that this is going to become the trend within not just the food industry, but all industry’s out in the work force.
-That being said, I believe that calculus I and calculus II are required for Food Science students trying to complete a B.S. merely in order to prepare us for graduate school. It is more or less inevitable that we will be enrolling in some sort of education higher than bachelor’s so taking calculus II now will better prepare us for the more difficult science and math courses that we will encounter at graduate school.

I think it turned out rather well!!