General nothingness

Ever have one of those days? I have three classes right now, and I bust my butt to get all my work done in a timely manner, and I don't procrastinate, even in my research methods class. So far this semester, EVERY class has posted an announcement celebrating procrastination. One was for a TEST of all things, that ended at 12 pm on a certain day, and a bunch of people missed the deadline, because they thought 12 pm was midnight, not noon. Now, I don't know what the instructor intended, but it opened on a Monday morning, and was listed to close at noon on Thursday. So everyone who missed it on Thursday after noon, posted that they missed, blah, blah, blah, and the instructor opened it for two more days because of the inconvenience. Excuse me? Is this grad school or kindergarten? If I had know that, I wouldn't have stayed up till midnight on the only night I had to do it, I could have waited and done it on my day off.
Another class has quizzes we take for each module. These are worth points, people. So then, an announcement comes out that the instructor notices that not everyone is taking the quizzes, which open and close at specific times, usually a week and a half to get them done, and the instructor announces that he's made them all available again so people can go back and take them. Are ya kiddin me?
Then yesterday, the last class had an announcement that because of a technological issue, he's extended a test by a few days. For Pete's sake, everything is listed in the syllabus, and you should go read it, and plan accordingly. Grrrrr.

Okay, enough ranting. We've just started the inferential statistics part of our research methods class, and it's not as scary as I thought. Once you learn the terminology and the formulas, and what they are used for, it's easy. I'm VERY relieved! Project management has one more big paper due, then a couple of cases studies to do, and collection development has two more big papers due, but I'm done with one of them. We had to write a paper about the ramifications of the USA PATRIOT Act on confidential library records. Did you know the USA PATRIOT Act won some award for acronyms? It really stands for "Uniting and Strengthening America: Provide Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act"
Just thought you'd want to know that. I'm not going to get into the politics of it, or personal beliefs, because I'm not up for the fight.

Well, another week closer to the end of the semester! Yay!