My son is scheduled to graduate from college on Saturday. It is now late Thursday night, and he has not yet finished a final project for one class. He is exhausted and demoralized, and he still has a huge mental block about finishing this paper. But he is working on it. I proofread the first couple pages this afternoon, and what he had was quite good, though he does not have enough time to do the excellent job he is capable of.
The class is required for graduation, so he really does need to get this thing done! In fact, the project was for a class he took LAST semester. He just could not finish this paper by the end of winter break, so he requested an Incomplete in the class. And then continued to put it off. I can totally understand. I remember being a university student. You always have at least a half-dozen papers or projects hanging over your head. And the ones with firm, impending deadlines always get top priority. And the others, well, don't.
In any case, he is currently plugging away, with his own personal goal of having this thing done by 6 a.m. Yes, that would be 6 a.m. on the day before graduation. But do you know what they call someone who finishes his last university assignment the day before graduation? That's right, they call him a college graduate. Once he's turned it in, passed the class, and graduated, it won't matter exactly when he finished the darn paper.
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