Test tip of the day: never dwell on something that would only save you a couple points max

So, basically I worked incredibly hard on the rough draft of an assignment due in English, only to realise when she returned it that I had gone ahead to the next assignment which was to write a research paper on the same topic rather than incorporating my own experience. Since my essay didn't address all of this prompt I did most of it over again, and worked just as hard on the final draft as i did the first. All our assignments in the past have needed to be submitted at noon on a specific day or at midnight, so i had assumed that, when using my "late pass" it would be also due at noon, but only tuesday at noon instead of friday at noon (when it was regularly due). My essay was completely done by 11:30 last night, but i decided i would look over it one last time in the morning when i woke up just to "get those last points" that maybe could make a difference.

It turns out that on the syllabus that she handed us in the beginning of the year, in between the long paragraphs of neverending policies, the teacher wrote that it had to be sent in before the start of the class (AKA 9:30AM) when you use a late pass-which i had failed to read/remember.

So my ten-page hard-worked essay that i emailed my teacher this morning got a very small reply:

"late, no credit."

All of the rest of my grades are A's, I'm obviously not a bad student, and it was a simple mistake and misunderstanding. This isn't fair :'(