I like to think that stupid people bother me, but the worst thing of all is finding out that you're one of them.
We have a course at school which only I and a few friends of mine take - Webdesign at distance, i.e. teacher mails us whatever we should do, instead of us going to classes. The result is procrastination heaven.
At the beginning of June I decided to pick up the final project, which was making a complete homepage, and hand it in. Easy peasy. Accidentaly at the same time I check my school mail for the first time that year.
In it is a mail that says: "You are all late! I must have the final project within one week, and that's the final deadline!"
The mail was sent two weeks ago.
Whoops.
Clip to me collecting almost everyone who goes the course and explaining the situation. They all check their mail, and they all have the very same message. Then one of the guys we never talk to who was also in the course brings light on the situation: "No, that's for another course, for those in grade 3. OUR final project has had its deadline pushed back until september."
Everybody goes Phew! and we all decide to do the page immediately after school so we don't end up in this situation again. Needless to say, this didn't happen.
Today, August 24th, I decide to do the damn page, and it IS a real effort. I have it planned out and have the frameset done. So I decide to go see if there was any .doc with stuff we should know / think about / write down.
The internet page where we hand in the project is gone.
Poof.
Deleted from existance.
Let me explain somethign about the Swedish school system. We have four grades: MVG, VG, G and IG. They translate to absolutely approved, very approved, approved and failed, so it's like A, B, C and F.
However you can also get an S. Means missing. This is bad because it means you have no grade in the subject, either because you didn't come to class, missed important tests thrice+ , or for some other reason cannot be graded due to lack of gradeable material.
If you have an S - just one, damn single S - you cannot go to university. They won't accept you. You're banned from university forever.
It's not that all of us might get S'es in webdesign. WE ALREADY HAVE THEM.
Unless we do something drastic we're banned. From university. Forever.