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Question: I know that you do not accept late homework/case studies. And, you will probably want to post this on your web site of lame excuses, but my labrador retriever has been hospitalized. I don't know whether it is cancer or lymes disease. I was at the Animal Hospital until 4 am last night, I was there today, and I will probably have to go back tonight. I have the paperwork to back this up. I am also on the Lacrosse Team, and have had games this past week. Is there any possibilty of an extension, so that I don't have to pull an all nighter tonight?

Answer: If your bonus was riding on this report, what would you do? At least you didn't say that your dog defecated on your case study. If this was the case, you could hang it up as art in the Brooklyn Museum. Sorry, but it wouldn't be fair to the other students.

Really Lame

Question: I need an extension on my project because I just realized that I picked up the wrong case from the Bookstore. I gave them a call on Friday (the case was assigned on Wednesday) but they said that they had misplaced 15 copies of the case. I waited until Monday and went to the bookstore but still no luck. Since our class meets on Tuesday, this is the first opportunity that I've had to talk to you about it. Do you have an extra copy of the case that I can have? Also, can I have an extension since I also have a midterm exam tommorrow morning?

Answer: I asked this student why he didn't come to the computer lab since there are a lot of FM students working on their projects. He claimed that it would take him two hours to get to Stern. One hour commuting from Brooklyn and an hour going home from Stern. Thus, he waited until Tuesday to speak to me. My answer is that while I'm sympathetic to his plight, it would be unfair to all those individuals who started early and were sweating tears on their project. As Thomas Edison once said, success is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration.