I work best under pressure

Here's an email sent by a student the day before the presentation day for a major project in which for two weeks students worked in groups to construct certain mathematical objects. Most of the work was done in class, but this student wasn't around for most of that (and apparently neither was anyone else in his group):

Date: November 5

Hi, I am a student in your [general education math] class. I was not in class for three meetings on October 24,26,29 due to [problems unmentioned to me until now]. I have a low C in the class and I really wanted to do a good job on this project. I made a cube and dodecahedron and [something that we did not make]. I was wondering if we missed the handouts that showed how to make the other two objects? I got the handouts on [some stuff we made] but I have no idea how to make [another thing we did not make]. If you could shed some light on these things I would really appreciate it.

Really? The day before?

To the student's credit, after talking with the professor he spent the entire rest of the day in the student lounge constructing the objects that he was missing.