I'm sorry to be so brutally honest, but that's the way this business works. As I mentioned earlier, lab time will be at a minimum. Thus, I suggest you train yourself to become very skilled at budgeting your time. I will not accept the excuse that the lab was full and you couldn't get in to do your project. Nor will I except equipment failure as an excuse if the equipment was working at least 24 hours before your project was due.
Equipment breaks down and labs get full in the real world as well.
Yet they still manage to find a way to get their product on the air. You need to do the same. Like I said earlier, this is a hands on course. You won't get your knowledge from a book or from someone else's notes. You'll get it from watching me demonstrate how to do it.