ot- sitting in math class

[Darkstone42]

You should say "It doesn't matter why the fuck I wasn't here because I'm paying for this shit."

Counting attendance in college = bullshit.

In my probability class, each unexcused absence results in a drop of a fraction of a grade. I missed one class with bronchitis, so I'm still okay on that front.

The rest of my classes have that 2 or 3 free misses thing going on. Since I missed only one day with bronchitis and haven't missed any other classes, I'm solid on that.

I'm perfectly indifferent to attendance policies. I hated it in my econ classes, because I likely wouldn't have shown up if not for them, and likely still would have gotten a B+ and A- in them, respectively, regardless, but I would never consider intentionally skipping any of the classes in my major or minors. I guess from my perspective, they're unnecessary because I'm paying for this education and am going to show up unless I'm absolutely unable to (like bronchitis day or that time I was so sleep deprived that I started hallucinating), but at the same time, since I always do show up, they can't really hurt me.

 

[devs30rko]

5 out of 4 people have a lot of trouble with math.

in all honesty i'm not a math person. but this stuff is so elementary as the title would suggest, i breeze right through. so the work gets done and i find myself sitting there waiting for her to move on the next part of class.

 

[pixburgher66]

My school has an attendance policy due to ONE prof on campus (who happens to be my Philosophy Prof this semester...jackwagon). Ours is you can miss the amount of days a week the class is. IE, if your class is 2 days a week, you can miss 2 a semester, etc. The reason it exists is because my Phil Prof had his own policy before which was: "You can never miss class, even if your whole family is killed, no excused absences." Yeah...he's a character that one. Even now we have to stand up and apologize when we miss class. Pfft.

 

[Bizzle McDizzle]

its elementary algebra. its required. and i can't stand it.

They couldn't find anything in your high school curriculum that they could use to fulfill a requirement for an elementary algebra class to not have to take that? Geez.
Sounds like a ploy to get you to pay for 3 extra credit hours.

 

[Automattic]

I call it "Maff". And I suck at it.

 

[Destroydacre]

My school has an attendance policy due to ONE prof on campus (who happens to be my Philosophy Prof this semester...jackwagon). Ours is you can miss the amount of days a week the class is. IE, if your class is 2 days a week, you can miss 2 a semester, etc. The reason it exists is because my Phil Prof had his own policy before which was: "You can never miss class, even if your whole family is killed, no excused absences." Yeah...he's a character that one. Even now we have to stand up and apologize when we miss class. Pfft.

I'd politely tell him that he could shove my apology up his ass, but that's just me. I'm glad I never had any profs like that.

 

[pixburgher66]

I'd politely tell him that he could shove my apology up his ass, but that's just me. I'm glad I never had any profs like that.

At first I thought it was ridiculous at first, but for a Philosophy class I guess it's fine...and he did it when he missed class once, so that helped. "I apologize for missing class and depriving you of my contribution." I've only had to do it once, and we all do it...but still annoying.