Honest Slacker

I have a job grading papers for a professor with an undergraduate class. The students email their work directly to me. One sent me this message:

"Note: I didn't realize the outline was due until yesterday night @

discussion, so I'm sorry if my outline seems put together at the last

minute...because it really WAS put together at the last minute."

Why are you telling me this? Do you think I'll look at your paper and say, "Hmm, it's subpar, but pretty good for something done at 2 AM in the morning, so I'll give it full credit" ?

Oh, and she forgot to attach the file to her email.