I find there is a very thin line between being taken advantage of and giving a student the benefit of the doubt...when my students come to me with excuses. Accepting late work, with attached excuses, really pulls on my emotions because I want to believe my students are being honest with me and that I am being a benevolent person by taking the work (minus points for being late)...but it gets very tiring when it's one student after another. And, it's more work for me, keeping things organized and getting everything graded. With technology, now days, I am even starting to question if the Doctors' notes are real/legit or if they were created in PhotoShop! I am a fairly new instructor, on-campus as well as online, does anyone have advise or "words of wisdom"?