<p>I had an incomplete for one class last semester. Had an immense personal crisis during the last two weeks of the semester when I had almost ten papers due and exams, my advisor got the dean involved, and the dean asked that my professors take the matter into consideration, and one professor offered the incomplete. He requested that I have my work completed by the time the next term started, I had an extra two or three weeks. The professors had complete discretion in my situation, and most of my professors were not willing to do anything at all. I was passing all of my classes when this all occurred.</p>
<p>In the end, my grade in that class is noted as “BI.” I got a B in the course but the I stayed. In the grand scheme of things, that wasn’t that big of a deal. Had I not had that bit of charity from my professor I probably would have ended up in a hospital. It was an I or fail and have a nervous breakdown. For that semester, that was my best work and I don’t think I have anything to be ashamed of. Will have to think of an appropriate way to explain it to employers, I suppose, but I think I made the choice I had to make at the time. The issue of financial aid didn’t come up then as it was only the one course, but under the circumstances it would have been necessary to take the hit.</p>