The two best academic policies is making stuff due at 11:59 pm because that is sometimes the only thing keeping me from an all nighter, and making stuff count as late at exactly 12:00 am because that means it’s equally late at 12:00 am as it is at 6:00 pm after you’ve gone to bed, regrouped, and got back to it. So you might as well go to bed, regroup, and get back to it.
This is not advice applicable to everyone, I am aware of that, but speaking to my fellow smart but lazy but anxious but determined but not that determined but doing their best but mistaking self-hatred for discipline and calling mental breakdowns your best: just get a C and go to bed. You’ll get the points back elsewhere or maybe you won’t and you’ll live with a C, or a B minus or a C plus and it’ll be fine. It’s not an A and it’s fine. There are scores between 100 and death, and an 89 will graduate you just the same as a 98 will.
if it happened at all, it happened like that 