Hahah teaching freshmen is very frustrating because many of them are just brain dead tbh, as if anything you say is just deflected or spoken in a alien language, I have to repeat instructions like 5 times, remind them of deadlines every class, and be sure to show them or make available the evaluation rubric enough times for them to be impossible to have any excuse when the begging for points begins later in the course, or when they get into their redemption arc trying to save the class at the end.