Dear Professor,

The semester is over, all finals have been taken, all assignments have been turned in, and final grades are due soon. So I feel like now is the time to throw it out there. Please stop assigning new assignments that were never on the syllabus. Please stop expecting us to be able to fit yet ANOTHER assignment into my already insanely busy schedule. Here’s what I think, if it was not on the syllabus originally DO NOT ADD IT. Unless you plan on taking another one away, I simply do not have the time to complete another one of your unnecessary assignments.

I understand that you, as a professor, have time to be adding assignments and that you will have time to grade these said assignments. But as a student I do not have the time. I do not have the time to write a five-page research paper, due three days after finals, that you just assigned. I do not have time to finish two assignments that you added after we finished the final. Two assignments that turned out to be a total of nine separate assignments. Two assignments to finish despite the fact that you made us turn the final in a week early and told us that we were going to be done.

I had seven classes this semester. That means I had seven classes to prepare for and present and take final exams for. Seven classes that all deserve an equal amount of my time, energy, and attention to ensure success. So I am sorry to say this but your class is not more important than any of my others. I cannot put your class and last minute assignments above anything else. At that point in the semester, assignments and studying are being completed in the order in which they are due and which final I am taking first.

So professor, I am sorry if you don’t feel like I put all my effort into your class. But to be 100% honest I didn’t. So please reconsider next time you think about adding a last minute assignment that is due after finals are over. Please think about your students and the work load that they already have coming from you and not to mention all of their other professors.

Sincerely,

Your (stressed to the max) Student