When I said Old Testament History was really the only homework I had, what I meant was that it was the only homework I could do....let me explain. Books needed for classes should either:
A) Be bought from school-you-are-attending bookstore,
or
B) Ordered from-other-place long before class starts.
There is option C) if you are into this newfangled technology, E-books, but we will save that for another day.
I ordered my Business Ethics book from Amazon. I am a renter. Yes, for a small fee and the promise to return the book when you are done with it, Amazon will rent you a book. And, being a student, I qualified for "Student Amazon Prime" (1/2 price off of regular Amazon Prime). When I hit the check-out button, I got to select my mode of shipment. There were three options:
1) Free shipping
2) We-should-charge-her-extra-because-she-lives-in-Hawaii shipping
3)May-as-well-just-buy-the-book-from-the-school-bookstore-and-keep-the-book-as-much-as-you-are-gonna-pay-for-this shipping.
Now, because I have Amazon Prime, the book qualified for free shipping, and Amazon Prime is supposed to be 2-day shipping. Like order it now, and get it in 2 days. Two business days if you want to get technical. So I did not heed the delivery time warning (you will not get this book for a very long time), no I crossed my fingers, waived my optimism wand, and selected free shipping.
Fast forward to the first day of class (memory jogger, July 1). I looked at the class syllabus and it said read chapter one before first class. Well, I don't have the book, so I cannot read it, no problem, if you remember, I did not go to that class, so no one is going to know I didn't read the chapter. Farther into the week, I read the assignment on the blackboard (the one on my computer), read chapter two and answer the following questions:
1) based on the chart on page 35, what group of people lost the most due to the Enron fiasco?
2) In your opinion, who was the most responsible for the Enron fiasco?
Alrighty, #2 could easily be googled and an opinion could be formed, but how to answer #1? I looked at other people's answers to see what they said about the chart, (yes, other people were actually doing their homework and posting it for all to see) but it wasn't clear from their answers what this chart looked like. Also a timed test had now popped up for us to do.....
I went on Amazon's website, tracked the book, and lo and behold, the mail carrier's estimated delivery was Saturday, two days before homework was due. Whew! Dodged a bullet on that one. Saturday comes and goes, no book. Went on-line to track it, tracked it to.....Honolulu.....I see that the book made it to Honolulu, Saturday at 0430 hours.....it was too tired to finish it's journey (8 miles) so it got a hotel for the weekend, saw the sights, played on the beach, etc.
I decide to be honest with my Professor, (it being Business Ethics and all) and explain the situation. I give him a heads up that I have yet to get my book, and if it makes Monday's mail, I will try my darnedest to complete all tasks before the deadline (2359 hours Monday evening). He was actually really great about it, he mentioned a website (centage.com) that would sell me chapters of the book electronically (basically $4.50 a chapter for my particular book), and I thought that was an excellent resource if it came to that. Book finished suntanning and made it in Monday afternoon, I hunkered down and ignored the outside world, and by oh, about 9 pm Hawaiian time, had a 100 percent on the chapter two test, and had answered questions 1 and 2. I am not gonna lie and tell you I understood the chart on page 35 even after I got to see it with my own eyes, but I felt better trying to answer the question once I had seen it, instead of pretending to have seen it and copying someone else's answer, so there you go, a lesson in homework ethics.
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