<p>haha,lol. He's a nice guy, available at office hours, but he really needs to stop teaching the class(you would think years of people filling out the same comments on course evaluations would have some kind of impact...)</p>
<p>i got really bad about attendence about halfway through the quarter. late nights and morning classes are a bad mix.</p>
<p>On the subject of going to class, my past two years in college have taught me the following :
1 if you SHOW Up to class, youve won half the battle. I have found college easy enough to where even if i sit around and vegitate and dont write many notes, ill still pull off a "c". with homework and studying the results are much better.</p>
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<li>If you are a chronic absentee a teacher will definatly show you no love.</li>
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<p>Hey, I'm in hs and I am taking a few classes at a nearby college, and I remember my first two weeks freaking out when I learned that I could skip class. But, I only skipped twice early in the semester, and it was fun. However, I realized which profs cared and which ones didn't. Like, for a lab I had, I could never skip, or I would have to make up 1.5 hours of stuff with the prof. later(she was really nice, most would just give a 0 for the day missed). Then, one of my lectures was such fluff, and the chinese lady could hardly speak English, and her notes were straight out of the book. She didn't even show up for class sometimes!! But, I realized later that me going to class regularly was worth it, because if you act like you are interested and give a crap, the prof. is more lenient in listening to your questions, complaints, and more likely to bump your grade up a pt. or two in the end!!</p>
<p>Jerod -</p>
<p>I'm at Georgetown with pennhopeful. In my International Business class, my professor would give lectures based on the material. BUT, the exams were pulled directly from the book. So, you could listen to lectures and not read the book and get a passing grade. However, anybody who read the book well and missed a lot of class could have got excellent grades. Some professors just take questions from the material aspects of the course and not their lectures...</p>
<p>I think that it varies from professor to professor and school to school. I have had professors who towed the line and if you missed classes it did impact your grade. I have also had professors who felt that if yyou could learn it on the outside better than you can in the classroom- then more powere to you. </p>
<p>I know as a parent looking at a $42,000 price tag for tution room and board, I would be very ****ed at the thought of my daughter missing classes. But my the same token she had a professor who told then up front that 3 or more absenses would result in a full drop in grade, so An A would become a B , a B would be come a C thereby making each person at some level the master/mistress of their own fate</p>
<p>i went to maybe 2-3 weeks of classes this quarter. I made it to all my disscussions which is the most important class cuz they take attendance! i take pride in that.... I get A-'s. i guess i could go to class more often but the teachers are so boring they just put me right back to sleep or they are so stupid and dont know what they are talking about. And i really dont like going to class when i'm hungover or didnt get much sleep the night before. And i really dont like going to class before 1 so thats why i missed most of my classes. I guess i prefer my sleep more than getting a solid A, besides i dont want to go to grad school or anything. I did go to class almost everyday in community college dont get me wrong. I think i missed like one day. But now that i'm at UCLA its not that neccesary.... ;)</p>
<p>I missed a few classes, but nothing that really hurt me grade-wise.</p>
<p>i have missed classes for no good reason...oversleeping...and i regret it. i actually missed a test once and the teacher would not let me make it up! ended up with a B in there because of it even though i could havve gotten an A if i hadnt missed that test. it took the rest of the semester doing extra credit to get my grade up to a B.</p>
<p>i am studying abroad in france right now and the school i am at actually indicates the number of classes and the number of classes you actually go to....the worst i had here was out of 80 hours of instruction, i went to only 48 of them....i am in a language program that meets 20hrs a week and we get our progress reports each month.</p>
<p>GO TO CLASS</p>
<p>Yes, it is important to go to class.</p>
<p>However, you would be surprised how tempted you are to skip that 8:00 am class when you've been up until 4:00 in the morning the night before. :)</p>
<p>It is soooooo easy to sleep through those early classes. Thank goodness for my amazing roommate, who woke me up once when I almost missed....</p>
<p>toward the end of the physics class I took over the summer, I tended to skip lecture a lot. the lecturer just did a pp, and all of the slides were online. he didn't do anything in class other than read directly off them, so I found it more valuable to look at the slides at home. The non-lecture classes I never skipped though, as they were extremely helpful, and often had graded activities.</p>
<p>I take classes at a University (about 13,000 undergrads) and the only time I would ever show up for my chemistry class was for the exams. So that comes out to about 6 classes in 16 weeks. How did I do you ask? Well the exams were out of 20 (3 exams for 600 points, final for 300, and homework for 100) and I got a 20,19,19, and my final I don't know what I got. So it would have been a waste to go to class.</p>
<p>in my physics class, he had a policy that was if you go to every class, you automatically pass. so as long as you missed none, you were guarenteed a C. you could get like a 55 on every test, but since you were trying, and making an attmept, and coming to class, you'd get a C.</p>
<p>I've learned my lesson this semester..
I've missed almost every meeting of my phil. and political theory classes..
Didn't do too well, obviously.</p>
<p>I'd better go to every single class next semester.</p>
<p>My comment is that if the classes are that skippable, there is something wrong with the classes.</p>