Okay so this is really stupid, and I feel bad, but I can't calm myself down. This is my last semester of college, and it's too late to drop any classes at this point. In one of my classes, our final is to interview a professional in the field. Found a professional, did an interview. Life is great! Except I'm a fucking moron because I missed the part on the assignment directive where it said that anyone whose title is not (insert list of like six titles) needs to be approved by the professor. My interviewees title wasn't on there. So I messaged my professor trying to play it cool going 'oh, hey, do you think it'd be okay if I interviewed a person who does this kind of work?' and included a description of what my interviewee does. The problem: This professor is notoriously impossible to get ahold of. She doesn't check her e-mail or the student/professor messaging system my school has like ever. I actually have her on Facebook and I messaged her there which I know, it's unprofessional and all, but I really need to get ahold of her and she has a history of just totally ignoring her e-mail. If she gets back to me and tells me that no, I can't use the person I picked, I'm screwed. I don't have time to set up another interview with someone else - the assignment is due next week on Tuesday and since it's almost the holidays, everyone is busy. I'm going to wind up having to take a failing grade on the final and, since I need this class to graduate, I'm not going to graduate on time. I'm going to have to stay back because of one stupid class. ugh, I don't know what to do and I'm freaking out.
Seconded- most professors have office hours that you can go in and ask them stuff. Usually it's either in the syllabus, online if you have a thing for online anything(like checking grades, etc.) or even posted on their office door. Or maybe you could just talk to her before/after the next class?
Office hours would probably work well! But also - is the person's job description close to the kind of thing the professor wants? Is it just the title that's missing? Like, do you think your professor is likely to approve them? Because you can also just hand it in with a note saying 'I missed the thing but considered this person an appropriate professional because xyz and couldn't get ahold of you in time once i noticed the discrepancy,' and that might work. Most professors aren't unreasonable!
I'm on break, so there's no office hours. @Chiomi I think the person's title is the problem - they work directly with children, but they have an administrative title. I included in my message that she does work directly with kids, but again, I don't know if she'll get back to me before I'm done.
