Also? If any people who work in a professorial capacity could help with this one: the AWOL groupmate sent our prof an e-mail explaining that she was having a hard time uploading/processing our presentation, and that the only reason things were late was because of her, so please don’t penalize us. Should the rest of my group also e-mail our prof now and explain the current situation and apologize for not having it up?
Yes. Here’s my recommendation, as a person who was REALLY good at turning things late and as a past college teacher who hated it when people did that:
1. Email the prof. Be professional, kind, and clear. Apologize for the lateness and express that you cannot reach the missing groupmate.
2. Change the tone of communications to the groupmate. Switch from WTF YOU BITCH to “We’re concerned about you - hope you’re okay, and please send us any materials so we can complete this without you while you are indisposed.”
3. Get it done without this person. Do you have source files? Do you have raw footage? Whatever you have, work with it. If it’s going to take 24 hours to rebuild what’s lost here, communicate that to the prof. “Because we will need to rebuild significant portions of the work if we do not hear from ___, we need to request an extension until [Date you can get it done by without her].”
(Source: ipomoeaandthestarstealers)
