<human>: Condense the text into a few key points

It all started a few weeks ago when my car broke down just 
before leaving for class. I live an hour away from the university so I had no choice but to take a cab/uber. During this time of the day, I had difficulties finding either so I ended up being 1 hour late for my midterms. And as a result, failing it entirely.
 
   My professor is different in grading compared to other classes and this is because he only takes your grade from 2 different places: Your midterms and your finals. Seeing as I failed the 1st one, I tried to reason with him and see if I could get a special project or whatever to bump up my grades a bit. Being one of the strictest profs out there, of course he said no and that if I do really good on the finals, I can still get the passing grade of a 3.0 (The highest is 1.0).

   Now normally, in a case like this, I'd just tell myself to study my ass off and aim for that 3.0. But my current academic situation does not let me get anything lower than a 2.0. So I have no choice but to drop this class and retake it when I can.

   Alright, so now he wants me to write a letter to him about a valid, logical and unavoidable reason as to why I should drop his class. And the problem is that if he doesn't like my argument I get an instant 5.0 (failing grade) This is a philosophy class by the way, so I have to be pretty careful with what I write.
<bot>: Failed a class bec. I was late for the midterm. Trying to write a letter with a logically sound reason as to why I should drop it.