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Student Shocked Midterm Project More Than One Night of Work

By Midnight Smell , in Campus Life , at April 1, 2022 Tags: , , ,

In a shocking revelation to the students of Professor Robert Sloth’s 300 level class, the midterm project he first assigned in January could not, in fact, be completed the night before. The thrown-together projects presented this Monday made it clear that all 40 students had put off the assignment until right before the due date.

“I can’t believe the professor was actually right,” said Hilda Chavez, a junior who has completed at least four such projects during her time at Texas A&M University. “But if he knew it would take so long to complete, why didn’t he warn us how much work it would be in advance?”

Sloth was reportedly unsurprised, as this happens every semester. Since first announcing the project during syllabus week, he made it a point to emphasize the project would be no easy feat and impossible to complete if started at the last minute.

“I know students love to procrastinate, so I reminded them every class this project was a lot of work,” Sloth said. “They just never listened.”

Frequent email reminders and lecture recordings corroborated the professor’s claims. Despite the project’s toll on his students’ grades, he told The Mugdown he is not expecting different results when the final semester projects come around in May.

 

—Midnight Smell