First post, School complaints

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this is my first post to my Blogger account. some of you may be wondering why i even bothered moving accounts when Livejournal was working perfectly fine. to be frank about the whole thing (pun intended) i did it for two reasons.

1) Erik made me do it. you can go yell at him on either of his two journals.

2) I've always associated Livejournal = Drama, and there is a plethora of reasons for this connection, most of which I'm trying to avoid.

3) Blogger is owned and operated by Google, one of my internet loves whom i make a habit of courting frequently.

OK, yeah, there are three reasons for a list of two. not caring.

that's the (hopeful) end of that discussion and if anyone has complaints, feel free to comment. that's what the function was designed for (in my opinion). i was just wondering, and maybe someone can fill me in here on what I'm missing, why do professors comment, "don't worry about this for now, you have a few days/weeks/months to breathe" when assigning long-term assignments? do they want us to fail? repeat the class? continue paying tuition?

all of the helpful advice I've both personally accumulated and read online regarding getting large assignments done emphasize starting as soon as possible and finishing as soon as possible. wouldn't it be better for both professor and student for student to finish assignment weeks before it was due instead of hours?

professors would get better quality work as well as better pass/fail percentages. students would be less stressed out and retain more knowledge. school systems would display better average GPAs and filter out worse student applications. overall, everybody involved in the education system benefits from professors reversing their tactics and emphasizing students to finish long term assignments a.s.a.p.

am i missing something?