Ha ha, very funny

*enormous fucking sigh*

So that paper, the one due on Saturday, was apparently an upperclassman prank. It was very well executed - it was sitting on the table outside the classroom next to the outline for the lecture. It had formatting specifications and although being due on Saturday is weird, I re-checked the syllabus website and the papers actually are due on Saturdays - but the first one is not until three weeks out.

I should be mad that I spent two and a half hours on a joke this afternoon, and I certainly wish I would've spent that time on my physics problem set, but in a way it's relieving. I did get about 600 words of disorganized ideas down, and I was pretty confident I could finish the assignment okay. Now that I know that's somebody's idea of a way to scare freshmen, I'm much less apprehensive about the work that will actually be assigned.