In the meantime of Hitched's editing, I took a break from the chopping room to start one *small* project for TSA, a club at my school. For TSA, a group of friends and I began The Officers, a mockumentary about running a TSA chapter, based on the hit series, The Office. By far, it was one of the most entertaining sets to work on. The cameraman kept the camera rolling even when we weren't actively filming, so I had plenty of behind the scenes footage a B roll when it came to presentation time. To compete in TSA, the video must come with a substantial amount of paperwork -- an amount of paperwork that we misjudged. This lapse in judgement lead to one of the most hectic scrambles to finish work I have ever experienced. Due at midnight, the paperwork was 22 pages of citing sources, self reflection, and busywork that took the better part of six hours. I submitted the project at 12:02. Two minutes past the deadline. I learned this commandment of organization: Thou shalt set a due date one (1) week in advance of the actual due date, lest you become mired in last minute work.
Though this wasn't a crushing loss, it was disappointing still to see all of our hard work suddenly ineligible. We brought it to our adviser and he said, " a deadline is a deadline," which roughly translates to, "explain to me why you waited until the last minute to submit a project you've know about since the second week of school. We beat a hasty retreat. At this point, I had gotten the answer I expected, but that didn't make the loss any sweeter. I promised never to make that mistake again and moved on. But the freshman didn't. Clearly outraged at this arrow of fortune, he took the project to his mother, who, with connections from his old school, found a way that we *might* be able to submit our video on an extended deadline. The text, "We need to talk," quite possibly stopped my heart in the middle of math class, but the subsequent, "I think we can submit late," got it started again. I met him and found that, with the zeal of a mother bear defending its young, his mom had taken the issue to the state advisor , who offered an extension after hearing our story. Most would accept defeat and keep the lesson, but not a freshman and his mother. Praise to the overachievers, grade-grubbers, and freshmen, for you save projects.
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