<p>For an English class that I am taking, we have to submit multiple parts of the final project to the professor so she can approve. She says she will only accept proposals via email. Ok, fine. But then she says that she can only check her email between 6 and 9 p.m., and that anything sent after 9 will not be read until the following evening. So last week, two days before one part of the project was due, I sent the proposal to her at 8, and got nothing, which stressed me out as I was pressed for time. I talked to her in class about it the next day, and her reposnse was.....</p>
<p>"oh, well I wasn't feeling well, so I went to bed early last night, and didn't get a chance to answer alot of emails." </p>
<p>I think that is an absolutely ridiculous response. If I had said, "well, I was sick and went to bed early last night, so I couldn't turn this paper in." I very highly doubt she would have felt bad for me.</p>
<p>Anyways, am I wrong for thinking that my teachers emailing policies are completely unreasonable, and if so, should I complain to someone higher up in the dept?</p>
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<p>She's being unreasonable letting those e-mails go until the night before the project is due. Let it go. Professors get passes where students don't. For example, I've had a few who took months to hand back papers, and even then the paper had a seemingly randomly chosen grade with two illegible comments for explanation, so I had no commentary or time to improve. C'est la vie. Unless this happens again, I wouldn't say anything, but if you are going to talk to anybody, talk to the professor about it first.</p>
<p>There's nothing unreasonable about your teacher's policies. Professors generally have more to worry about than every undergraduate student's whims and concerns.</p>
<p>I think it's not reasonable for the professor to have the email policy in the first place since obviously she's just giving herself more work. But then again, for you it's probably better than her forcing you to submit a written proposal the week before.</p>
<p>Emails are time-stamped. Even if she doesn't read it till the following day, she'll still be able to tell that you sent it in ON TIME. Therefore, I don't think it's ridiculous for her to have deadlines, or to postpone reading the emails.</p>
<p>In general, when you've put off a big project until just before it's due and things go wrong with it, you can blame yourself. No, you couldn't anticipate that your prof would go to bed early 2 days before the project is due, but you could have anticipated that <em>something</em> would happen at the end that would cost you a day or so, and planned for that.</p>
<p>This is not to say that I would have done anything differently, of course.</p>