<p>My alma mater has a journalism school. There were no excuses for missing deadlines. None. Because when you go write for the NYTimes or the WSJ or the Chicago Tribune or whatever, you can’t just turn in your story when you feel like it, you can’t just run the paper with a big hole on the front page because you felt lazy that day.</p>
<p>You also haven’t explained how extending deadlines (in the absence of a legitimate emergency such as hospitalization) increases willingness to learn. </p>