Dear Professor *insert name here*,

I am writing to politely inform you that your class, unfortunately, is not the single most important priority in my life at the current moment. No, I am not saying that I don’t care about your class or your assignments, or my GPA, but I am saying that I have other things going on in my life, like other classes.

It seems to me that you fail to see that as typical college students take more than just one class. Actually for a lot of us, we take at least five. With that being said, when you assign five chapters or more of reading in a two day period, you have to realize that some other professor probably also assigned five chapters, a paper, and an online quiz. Which probably leads you to ask the question, "well how do you get it done?" This, however, does not come with one single answer, but rather a number of possibilities.

For some of us we conquer this task by gluing ourselves to a library desk for eight hours to then be kicked out when the library closes at 1 a.m., where we then find ourselves keeping our eyes open with toothpicks and finally resorting to our beds around 3:30, 4 a.m. to then be up by 8 o’clock.

Others skim the readings, write the minimum paper requirements, and try their luck at guessing on the multiple choice questions on the quiz. Some manage to cram all of this work into the few short hours of the morning, miraculously, before they run to class five minutes late.

And well to be honest some of us didn’t even bother to buy the textbook, but we managed to hand in a semi-intelligible paper, with a 50/50 shot that we even remembered to take the quiz.. So when you ask or question why we don’t put in our best effort or why we “forgot” to read you have to know it’s because we’re doing our best to do it all. We’re trying to balance it all, we’re trying to make it work.

So yes, we care about your class, and we care about our grades but we care about most about the balancing act we have learned to call college. I hope this helps to clear up why certain things are the way they are.

Sincerely,

Your average college student