Belated Best Wishes

If you send me a birthday card with twenty dollars in it two weeks late, I will still happily accept the card and the gift.

If you send me a great essay two weeks late, I will still happily accept the gift. (But fie on the syllabus policy that says a deduction applies!)

Unless a professor specifically tells you a paper may not be turned in late or after a certain point, assume you can turn it in, double check that you can, and if the teacher still advises that you turn it in, do it!

(Don't succumb to the fatal bliss of "Oh well, there's no making that up now!")