Being Late is Costly

Oh so Costly

For economics class we have a presentation. Not a normal presentation, a poster presentation. Instead of standing in front of the class and going through a PowerPoint presentation, we have to design a poster and present it to the class as they walk around asking us questions. Its a new thing for most of us in the class and a cause of great stress to many, including myself. As luck would have it the school offers poster size printing for free to students upon instructor request and students reserving a time to print. Problem one. I have no idea what I am doing, so I threw some stuff together proceeding slowly since I am trying to figure out what to do. Problem two. The print office didn't get the teacher's request for printing rights for our class, so he had to resubmit it. (Not that I was ready anyways). Problem three. I didn't sign up for a time early, since I had no idea when I would actually finish doing something I have never done before. Problem. I called to see about getting a time to print it, the schools print services are no longer scheduling appointments to print. This leaves me with few options. I went to Kinko's. Kinko's was reluctant to take the job telling me they wanted more time, but they could put the job in with a note that I would pick it up early (with a specific time). Not my most desired thing to hear, since they didn't seem to encouraged that it would be done. I went to one other place to check them out, but the guy in front of me asked about printing posters, and they didn't have anywhere near the right sizes, so back to Kinko's it was. After going through the hassle of hearing how bad I was for procrastinating, the bill came out to be $72 before taxes. Quite a price to pay for being slow this once, but I don't have too many options. I need to pass the class. The poster presentation is a large part of our grade. I guess $72 is not a lot to pay if it means that I can graduate, just seems like a lot when it is an unexpected expense.