Originally Posted by Sage

As for the rest of you, you're a buch of hypocrites. That's right, I went there. No, cheating is not the most morally upstanding course of action in a situation like slushi's, but it's the course he's chosen to take. So, if he doesn't cheat, he's supposed to lie to his professor and make up "personal reasons" why he can't do the paper? Either be 100% honest to your professor, your school, and yourself, or just forget the whole thing. Yes, going to school while working full time is hard, and puts you in a terrible crunch when finals come up and you have papers due, and right now you're finding that you haven't budgeted your time well at all and are feeling the squeeze. Perhaps next time you'll not make the same mistake- but isn't that what mistakes are for? Learning from?

Talk to your professor, let him know what's going on. The worst he can do is not grant an extension and then you're in the same boat you started in.