This quarter we want to reward students for submitting assignments early. Therefore, if an "early bird" deadline is specified for a given assignment, submitting your completed homework by that deadline will cause you to earn one "worm" as credit. A "worm" is a small amount of extra credit, such that 2-3 worms is roughly equal to one "bucket" grade improvement in your score on an individual homework assignment (such as from V to V+). This is a minor incentive, but we hope it will cause students to start working on their assignments earlier and spread out the busy dates at the LaIR.