Today I got back a writing assignment from civil procedure that I totally missed the boat on. The funny thing is, in my first draft I answered the question more accurately, and the night before it was due totally rewrote it, thinking I'd found a sneaky trick. Tricky only to me, apparently.

However, if I missed the boat, it left the dock without too many people on it. The professor told the class with characteristic gentleness that it was not our finest hour (perhaps most tellingly, he didn't bother writing comments on the papers after he got to a certain point in the pile)

Yay for ungraded work!

19 Oct 04