I am 30 and just now reluctantly starting college. My anxiety gets the best of me most days and I struggle to keep myself motivated but I’ve been getting good grades so far. Until today, and my anxiety has never been worse. I’m enrolled in an English course online. The schedule I received is formatted in two separate columns, one for due dates, and another with corresponding assignments. I’m busy and I work a lot so I skimmed the due dates and planned my weekend around starting these assignments and finishing them by the 30th (tomorrow) at midnight as the schedule says. I just went to begin one of the assignments due on the 30th only to see on the “assignments” column that it was in fact due days ago. A HUGE assignment. One that will majorly damage my grade if missed. I immediately emailed my professor about it and how the formatting of the schedule confused me and made it seem this assignment wasn’t due until tomorrow but she said I should have been more thorough when reading and nothing can be done. I’m so peeved.  Just a couple minutes later she emailed me back saying she would “consider partial credit”. I referred to her by first name in both emails btw. (I went to a high school where this was custom) and she emailed the WHOLE class about how unprofessional it is to refer to your teachers by first name. Not only am I embarrassed but I’m so scared that my grade will go down. I emailed her again apologizing for the name thing and she said the email wasn’t directed toward me but I know it was. My anxiety is off the charts with dealing with weird mishaps like this. Maybe college isn’t for me.