Law students

It never fails to amaze me that law students still, at their advanced point in life and with their education, want to be treated as children. In the last five days I’ve had two good students complain to me about the due date of their paper. Now, I gave them that due date in August and I’ve reminded them over and over again to get started on their papers. One emailed me to say he had left his textbook at school and he was now home, without the material he needed to do a comparison between actual mediator performance and the standards in the text. He asked if he could have 3 or 4 more days. Another complained that he had an evidence exam on the day the paper was due and JC, director of the Academic Success Program, couldn’t review it because she was away for the holiday. That I thought was gall, since he is obviously waiting until the very last minute to complete the work. I told he he couldn’t have an extension, but he could easily have someone else review the paper. He compounded the insult by replying that he thought that was what I would say and asked if he would have access to the bin outside my office at 11 pm on December 1!!! That’s when he’d like to turn it in. It boggles the mind!!