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Missing class

  • I missed class today due to car troubles and while i was wallowing in boredom decided this would be an interesting survey of sorts for the suq. How many classes a semester did you or do you now miss on average?

    I usually miss as little as possible, maybe 2-3 days. After paying off student loans already once im much more inclined to go to class then before. That and the fact that most classes are important. Obviously some days need to be missed for "personal health" reasons. Some have perfect attendance and thats pretty impressive.

    dpatt173redux ●

  • Depends on the class. Anywhere from exam only attendance to 100% attendance.

    Johnyp23

  • Johnyp23 said...

    Depends on the class. Anywhere from exam only attendance to 100% attendance.

    I mean, yeah this sums it up in a very general sense.

    If there was no required attendance, I would only go to a class if exams were based on lectures and notes were not available; otherwise I would just go to reviews and pull an all nighter before tests.

    Attendance classes - I would miss the most classes I could without failing/dropping letter grades. I liked teachers who thought they were influencing me by saying, "You cannot get an A if you miss more than 5 classes" - yeah well I wasn't planning on getting an A so joke is on you.

    In retrospect looking back I wish I would have gone to a lot more classes.

    7erps

  • I used to make class as much as possible and rarely missed. I was lazy about reading the textbooks outside of class so I went to class and took a ton of notes. I found for the most part, going to class, taking the notes and then studying those notes did quite well for me.

    MagooTerp

  • My overall college class attendance was about 40%. Going to class is soooo overrated. I was also an econ major, so that helped.

    rvilleterp

  • Same as the OP. If we're excepting classes with required attendance, my attendance certainly wasn't something to tell the parents about.

    It was far worse if profs told you that everything on exams would be from the book. Completely pointless attendance.

    tecmoHOOperbowl ●

  • tecmoHOOperbowl said...

    It was far worse if profs told you that everything on exams would be from the book. Completely pointless attendance.

    Or when the whole lecture would be them reading from powerpoint slides that they had put on Blackboard anyway. So dumb.

    7erps

  • It really depended on the class. If it was a class where the book was mostly worthless and you got all your information from the lectures I'd try to very rarely miss it. If it was a class where the lecture seemed worthless or it was early in the morning I'd miss a fair amount.

    neal990 ●

  • Sometimes you have to be careful when you get in a habit of missing classes or coming to class late. I remember in my freshmen year, I had a class that 50% I never came to, or the other times I would come really late, then sleep in class. One day I decided to go to class late 15 minutes, then when I was outside looking through the window, I see everyone's head down writing. I'm thinking wtf was going on, then it hit me that the class was having a quiz (not even a pop quiz, a real one) and I had no idea it was going on. Needless to say I didn't do good on it.

    Coltsfan1832644

  • First 2-3 years: I probably had about a 50% attendence record(when I did go, I either read the diamondback or dozed off a lot). Thought i could "cram" and be ok. Problem with that is most professors tell you what will be on the exam. 50% of my "cramming" was probably for shit not on the exam. Using this techniqe, I mostly got Cs, some Ds, few Bs, and zero As.

    related story: got a D on the first Econ 101 exam. Instead of studying, decided I would find an asian girl at the 2nd exam and cheat off of her. Sure enough...2nd exam comes along, I find and cheat off of asian girl. I end up getting 1 of 3 100%s on the test out of 400 some students. I was scared as shit. How does somebody go from a D to 100%? Never heard a thing from the professor. Found the asian girl again for the final and had about 4 frat brothers lined up behind me. Rode the cheat train to a B for the class.

    Years 4 and 41/2-attended 90% of classes, paid attention instead of worrying about notes, knew what was on the tests, "crammed" about 1/3 the amount I did years 1-3. Using this technique, Mostly Bs, few Cs, no Ds, one A.

    This post was edited by mcw28 on 11/9/2011 at 10:59 AM

    mcw28

  • Embarrassed to admit how often I skipped class back in the day. I almost never went to class after the first day; often only showing up for the final. Let's just say my college GPA was nothing to brag about...

    terps99 ●

  • Coltsfan1832 said...

    Sometimes you have to be careful when you get in a habit of missing classes or coming to class late.

    Tell me about it. For one class my sophomore year, I only went to class the first day, picked up the syllabus, and showed up months later for the final. Only one problem: the professor had changed the date of the final in the interim. Yeah, walking into an empty lecture hall two days late for a final was ... fun.

    terps99 ●

  • id say overall (discounting classes like econ where you didnt have to go once), i went about 60-75% of the time, ~50% 2nd semester senior year. too much more to do during college that you will never be able to do again.

    dhbfor6 ●

  • Im skipping class right now. But it's a boring ass history lecture so Whatevs.

    I almost never skip computer science classes.

    A.B.E.

    historicus

  • i attended about ~20% of the time. i did fine. why waste my time listening to someone blab for hours when i can sleep in and teach myself much more effectively?

    AlphaOmega said... im sorry i was confusing...your "Superbowl" was the Redskins losing since you know that the Ravens cant win it all.

    TheHugeManatee ●

  • All total, I probably missed 70% of my classes. The 2.1 GPA I graduated with wasn't just going to get that low on its own.

    Allenbaba ●

  • Really depended on the class. Accounting 1 and 2 with Pfeiffer- cmon why would anyone go to that crap. HIST 157 with Smead, I never missed, it was my favorite class ever. Most of my upper level Finance and Marketing classes I rarely missed.

    Obviously accounting and econ could be skipped with impunity.

    irishbmad

  • A year and a half in, haven't missed a single lecture. Gpa Is 4.0

    Justerp

  • Depended on the class and the teacher. If it was a smaller, seminar type class that required participation, I was there for most and would drop by and see the prof. if I missed. Bigger classes: college: anywhere from 25-75%.

    In law school, I was much worse. I went entire weeks w/o ever entering the building. I took tax. The first class I made was the final review session. I hit both of those and pulled a B+. I did have semesters where teachers really gave a shit about attendance. Those were bummers. I learned quickly to avoid those profs. Classes like mediation or trial practice were fun and I'd make most of those.

    parlay ●

  • does it count as attendance if you slept in every one of your classes?

    Mr Tiffles7673

  • TheHugeManatee said...

    i attended about ~20% of the time. i did fine. why waste my time listening to someone blab for hours when i can sleep in and teach myself much more effectively?

    I've often wondered what my percentage would be. I'd say 20% is about right, but sometimes I feel like it's even lower because I'm underestimating the amount of classes with completely worthless lectures that I never even considered attending.

    Also, having roommates that never attend makes it easier to skip. Solidarity. Fairly sure johnyp23 is lying about 100% attendance in any class.

    Justerp, skip some classes, bro.

    jdillon1 ●

  • Probably 3 of each a semester, though there were almost no survey courses at Wake, so every class had mandatory attendance and very few were lecture based.

    HoopheadVII: "Guess you won't say, "Sorry I'm a little off today" anytime again soon; Eaglesception is a bitch"

    EaglesLegendz ●

  • Car troubles?

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    coachspitz

  • rvilleterp said...

    My overall college class attendance was about 40%. Going to class is soooo overrated. I was also an econ major, so that helped.

    lol this except it's probably around 30% and i'm a CJ major not econ so my classes are simple. i just show up when i need to unless it's a class that teachers demand attendance and most teachers don't

    This post was edited by stangs25 on 11/9/2011 at 12:49 PM

    stangs25 ●

  • EaglesLegendz said...

    Probably 3 of each a semester, though there were almost no survey courses at Wake, so every class had mandatory attendance and very few were lecture based.

    WTF? I AP'ed out of any survey class I would have had to take at UVa, and almost no classes outside of Math or Chemistry labs had mandatory attendance.

    tecmoHOOperbowl ●

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