not panicking yet!

[schmerica]

People, I am in a tizzy, and I ask your advice.

I have a paper due this afternoon. This morning, I went to print it out; it printed one page and then jammed. I fixed the jam, and it said it was continuing to print. It did nothing. Since then, that print job has been in my queue, listed as "pending." Nothing I have done in the hours since has changed this. I tried disconnecting the printer from my laptop. I tried restarting the printer. I tried restarting my computer. Attempting to cancel the print job changes the status to "Deleting - Printing", where it has now been for many hours. Trying to print the file again does nothing, as it simply goes behind this job in the queue, and this job will never finish.

Do I have any options here besides emailing the professor to see if she will take it as an email attachment?

EDITED TO ADD: CRISIS AVERTED. Sometimes doing the same thing over and over and flailing helplessly DOES work! Good to know!

(Another fun fact about Erica's Day in Academics: my linguistics professor apparently decided to just not show up for the final this afternoon. As in, the entire class sat in the empty silent classroom for over an hour before someone ran down to the linguistics department to ask them what we should do and they sent us home. The working hypothesis is that she thought the exam time was 3pm and not 1pm, but considering how many million times she reminded us during the last class to double-check the exam times on the website, it is not a particularly good excuse.)

Comments

[cereta.livejournal.com]

*nods* For me, it depends on the class. I mostly require electronic submission, but in my business writing class, that got to be a problem, so I require hard copies. The key, though, is just that whatever the prof's preference, submitting it some other way can create significant extra work.

[cranberryink.livejournal.com]

Yep. Everybody wants to minimize extra work for themselves, whether it's the prof or the students. Both think that their preferences should take precedence.

Ah, school. So glad to be done with you! Um, not that it's all that different in the business world...

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

I think it's fair for the burden of the extra work to be on the students. I mean, I might bitch about little details sometimes, but I do it in a way where I know I'm being unreasonable and just ranting to hear myself, really.

[cranberryink.livejournal.com]

Oh, it's totally fair for the students to get the extra burden. I mean, they're there to learn from the teachers. It's kind of a jedi/padwan thing--the padwans always get to do the extra work. ;-)

[cereta.livejournal.com]

Everybody wants to minimize extra work for themselves, whether it's the prof or the students. Both think that their preferences should take precedence.

Well...yes, except that the extra work for one student of submitting a paper in the manner requested can fairly easily turn into five or ten or twenty students' worth of extra work for the teacher, which was sort of my original point. However unreasonable a student thinks it is for a teacher not to make an exception in her/his case, odds are pretty good that his/hers the only printer that jammed or ran out of ink or whose computer crashed or whose internet connection died, etc, etc, and the amount of extra work for each student to submit the paper as requested is significantly less than what will get piled on the teacher if even a quarter of the average class does not do so. I mean, it's basic math, here: one teacher, fifteen to twenty to a couple hundred students.

[cranberryink.livejournal.com]

I totally agree. All I said was that nobody wants extra work, but if there's extra work to be had, the students definitely get it. It's what they're there for.