I had to drop my first class of the semester because today I got an email making vague but ominous allusions to hundreds of pages' worth of reading that I'm expected to already have done that nobody told me about. I decided that playing catch-up was impossible.
Couldn't you have just explained your situation to the Professor? Or are teachers at your university unusually intransigent/uncaring?
I could have--I've heard he's a great guy--but I decided against it because the class:
1. Was seven hours a day for seven days, which I chickened out of committing to, and:
2. Also involved a field trip to ing Andover. Andover is in the Merrimack Valley, up near the New Hampshire border, and I have a long commute already--Porter Square to Boston University is about an hour each way. It just wasn't worth it.
Besides, the class I added to replace this one, Buddhism in America, is a lot more in my wheelhouse anyway.
I'm surprised that it's an hour from Porter Square to BU. Years ago I covered that regularly by bike in about 20 minutes or less. Is this not at the main campus?
BTW my daughter lives near Powder House Square.
Powder House Circle, you mean (I lived down the block in the parsonage on College Ave. when I was small).
