Chapter 1 in the MCC Atrium

I get to MCC and it's locked up tighter than a drum.  Even the library is closed.  How can an assignment be due before the college opens for the semester?  I'm on an atrium computer, but it's not running Win7 (or it's strongly locked down; either way more useless than MPL for my purposes).  Barnes and Noble wants a credit card for my book, which I have to buy before WIA will reimburse me for it. (I refuse to pay more for a paperback computer book that is probably already outdated than I paid for my hardbound chemistry textbooks back in the Dark Ages!)  I have no textbook to summarize, and no computer that will allow me to create a new profile.  Meanwhile WIA won't accept that I need an external hard drive for the course till they either see it in the syllabus or get a letter from the instructor (apparently the blurb in the catalog won't do).  And I'm finally working again -- from 8 to 5 in Lincolnshire. Why did I want to go back to college anyway?

I have an event tomorrow, so I can't try the distance computers tomorrow, and by the time I get back to MPL they'll be closed.  Argh!

Okay, let's try running Chapter 1 Assignment 1 again.

And I click Submit Assignment -- and nothing happens.  ARGH!