Today, class, the letter we will focus on is B, for Baffling. After 12 years of formal education, I just realized that in the typical grading scale, you earn an A, B, C, D, or F. F does not come after D, but it DOES stand for Fail. Logic at it's finest. At BYU, you can earn an A, B, C, D, or E. E does, in fact, come after D, but does not stand for Fail. And thus begins the long list of confusibilities that BYU has presented thus far.
For example: The syllabus. The all-important, holy grail of college upon which every single aspect of the course is reliant. The syllabus is the umbilical cord that connects you to your grade, via a bribe or two to the TA. The professor will hand you a syllabus. You accept it. And your relationship with said professor ends. All you will need to know about the course is on the syllabus, they say. Or is it? When you have a class of 500 students, your only hope is the syllabus (you cannot expect the professor to give you time when 499 other students also need it). So what are we to do about the assignments that were on another mystical document posted under a broken link somewhere in the vaults of BYU's randomly designed website? I have no idea, really.
Well, listen up, you assignments that are not on the syllabus. You can run, you can hide, and chances are, I'm not going to find you. But when you show up after the due date, I cannot promise we will still be "besties" afterward.
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