Is this a valid excuse for a later assignment?

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Anonymous wrote:That is a poor excuse. If I was your professor, I would not accept the late work

This. Why were your glasses on the floor? Do t you have an old pair that’s slightly off?

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If you wait until 10 pm the day before they are due and then you have a problem, this is the risk you run.

I wouldn’t give you the extension, personally.

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Can’t you get glasses in an hour at Pearl Vision type places?

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Anonymous wrote:As someone who has serious eye issues, I think this is a valid excuse.

Before I taught public school, I taught community college and the intro courses at a 4 year school. Vision is a health condition. Write it up that way. If necessary have your doctor write a note that you are excused from computer work at this time.

That said. Take care of this ASAP. It’s frustrating when a student doesn’t have glasses the entire semester but doesn’t use speech to text software or another option.

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Anonymous wrote:Can’t you get glasses in an hour at Pearl Vision type places?

That would be LensCrafters and they can only do it for certain prescriptions (mine take a week anyway) and it’s very expensive.

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Professor here. If you emailed me I would grant a short extension, but I wouldn't give you more than a couple extra days to take care of it. You could email a photo of the broken glasses to lend credibility to your claim, if you are concerned that the professor won't believe you.

I have an astigmatism in both eyes and am pretty much lost without my contacts or glasses. How do you not have an old pair of glasses somewhere?! If your vision is that bad I imagine you've been wearing glasses for a long time and surely have multiple old pairs laying around somewhere? I can't imagine throwing old glasses away... the lenses are EXPENSIVE when you have an astigmatism. I hope this is a lesson learned that you need to have a backup available at all times. It is dangerous to not be able to see if your vision is that bad.

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Were the assignments assigned the day before they were due? If not, you don't have a leg to stand on.

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You cannot do your work for a medical reason.

I would explain to your professor, and if he/she is not a total tyrant, they would extend the time for the assignment. (( am a professor myself).

BUT, let this be a lesson, that to function you need a back up for the future.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Professor here. If you emailed me I would grant a short extension, but I wouldn't give you more than a couple extra days to take care of it. You could email a photo of the broken glasses to lend credibility to your claim, if you are concerned that the professor won't believe you.

I have an astigmatism in both eyes and am pretty much lost without my contacts or glasses. How do you not have an old pair of glasses somewhere?! If your vision is that bad I imagine you've been wearing glasses for a long time and surely have multiple old pairs laying around somewhere? I can't imagine throwing old glasses away... the lenses are EXPENSIVE when you have an astigmatism. I hope this is a lesson learned that you need to have a backup available at all times. It is dangerous to not be able to see if your vision is that bad.

New poster, not the OP.

To this PP and another who talked so glibly about backup glasses: Depending on the prescription and one's finances, having useable backup eyeglasses is not always as simple as you both seem to think. Though I do have old pairs of glasses, if I had to wear them all day long while working on a computer screen for hours on end as OP is doing, it would be a problem. Some of us couldn't complete work that way. And since my prescription is a tough one and glasses cost me $800 to $1,000 a pair (and we're not talking pricey designer frames here, folks) -- duplicates of the current prescription aren't always in the budget.

For some people, wearing an old prescription can be as problematic as wearing no glasses at all. Please consider that when you toss out easy commentary about just popping on some "backup" glasses. Should we all have ideal backups? Sure. Can we all manage that? Not necessarily. Should the OP have been more careful? Yes, sure. But accidents happen, even to people dependent on just one pair or glasses.

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Anonymous wrote:Were the assignments assigned the day before they were due? If not, you don't have a leg to stand on.

This is what I was going to say too. Unless they were assigned that day, you really don't have an excuse to be doing the assignment last minute - and that's the risk you take. I may give you one extra day but only because that's what you gave yourself to do the assignment.

Seriously - start assignments early. Even if you only had a few parts left to finish, that's much more explainable to the professor (I only need to draft the last 3 questions, which I was planning to complete tonight) instead of saying you can't do the assignment on the last night before it's due

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Anonymous wrote:I have two assignments(not anything big) due tomorrow, and I stepped up on my glasses getting out the shower. I do not have contacts or a back up pair. I am sitting at the computer trying to do the work and I literally cannot see and I am getting a migraine. I plan on going to the frame shop tomorrow to see if they can be repaired or at least give me something temporary. I feel ridiculous sending a professor that I haven’t done the work because I can’t see, but I don’t know what else to do. My astigmatism makes everything on the screen insanely blurry and now my head is killing me. What should I do?

Can't you go get some cheapo readers to get you through until your prescription glasses are fixed? Some profs will absolutely not accept this excuse w/o a dr. note. Nor should they.

Also this is a lesson here: keep a back up and don't let work wait until the last minute.

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I doubt I had a backup pair of glasses in college (those were the days when my prescription didn’t change as often and I wore glasses til the fell apart and were beyond repair) and I’m useless without my glasses. As a prof, I would have considered this a valid reason for an extension.

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I wonder if the same people being so hard on OP are the ones who want their 17 year old to be able to turn in seven weeks of late work.

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Anonymous wrote:I doubt I had a backup pair of glasses in college (those were the days when my prescription didn’t change as often and I wore glasses til the fell apart and were beyond repair) and I’m useless without my glasses. As a prof, I would have considered this a valid reason for an extension.

Not if the student had a week to do the assignment and chose to do the entire thing the night before. I would ask for what the student had done up until that point. If it was nothing, I would ask for a photo of the broken glasses and give a one-day extension if there was proof.

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Anonymous wrote:Years ago, I had a professor who required that I provide a copy of the death certificate for my relative who passed. I missed two assignments that were nonessential due to his sudden death. I was shocked by the request.

People lie.