It’s not exactly ‘the dog ate my homework,’ but if the pressure of nailing a triple lutz + triple toeloop isn’t a good enough excuse for extra time on an assignment, then every college student in the world is doomed.
Canadian figure skater Maddie Schizas is in Milan competing for her country this week to fight for glory at the Winter Olympics.
The skater will take part in the women’s single skate and the team skate event where Canada is expected to compete for a medal.
But if those expectations aren’t enough for her, she also has to deal with her day job as a student at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario.
On Friday, Schizas came to a common, yet terrifying realization, that she missed her assignment for a class that she thought was due on Sunday. This led her to frantically typing what has to go down as one of the greatest excuse notes in history.
‘Hi Prof. [Name Redacted] I am a student in your Sociology 2FF3 course and am wondering if I could get a short extension on this week’s reflection. I was competing in the Olympic Games yesterday and thought the reflection was due on Sunday, not Friday,’ she wrote.
Canadian figure skater Maddie Schizas had a classwork scare while in Milan for the Olympics
Schizas frantically sent an e-mail to her professor asking for an extension with a good excuse
Schizas is part of a Canadian team which is expected to fight for a medal place
Just to make sure that all her ducks were in a row, Schizas added a link to a press release from the Canadian Olympic Committee to ‘confirm my participation.’
The 22-year-old Oakville, Ontario native put in a good performance in the women’s single skating short program portion of the Team Figure Skating event.
Schizas came in sixth, scoring a 64.97 and putting Canada in fourth after the first day of the two-day team event.
She is also the sole entrant from Canada for the women’s individual figure skating event taking place later in the games.
Schizas will look for redemption after finishing fourth in the team event and 18th in the women’s single skating at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing.
