I tended to breeze through most of my homework in high school - since I got a lot of it done during lunch breaks or after school, when not working in the library.
College was a different thing, though - as just about every last instructor seemed to think that THAT course was the ONLY course we should be concerned with, and they didn't want to hear any crap about "but remember, we have 4 other courses (some people took as many as 7 courses per semester)".
Sure, sometimes I stayed up until 3 a.m. doing my physical geography homework (finishing the lab assignments that didn't get done in class) - but at least that class was fun - and the instructor was willing to be flexible with our assignments as long as they were turned in by noon the next day, unlike most other instructors.
College was a different thing, though - as just about every last instructor seemed to think that THAT course was the ONLY course we should be concerned with, and they didn't want to hear any crap about "but remember, we have 4 other courses (some people took as many as 7 courses per semester)".
Sure, sometimes I stayed up until 3 a.m. doing my physical geography homework (finishing the lab assignments that didn't get done in class) - but at least that class was fun - and the instructor was willing to be flexible with our assignments as long as they were turned in by noon the next day, unlike most other instructors.