<p>If not, what classes do you skip? How well do you do in them?</p>
<p>If you do, how do you motivate yourself to go to class all the time, especially when it's raining/snowing/just cold?</p>
<p>I hardly ever skip class just because of the weather, unless I’m commuting and the roads are bad. If the class has a really strict attendance policy I always go, but if the class doesn’t have that much of an attendance policy then I’m not as concerned. I’ll still go to class as much as I can, but if I need to skip because I don’t feel well or I have a paper to finish it’s not the end of the world. Also, I really try not to skip a full day of classes. </p>
<p>Usually if I’m not wanting to go to class for no reason at all I just tell myself that this class only takes a few hours out of my day. I’ll go to class for a few hours and then I can come back and sleep or just be lazy or whatever.</p>
<p>I always go to class.</p>
<p>Why would I pay money to skip class? Makes no sense to me.</p>
<p>I always go to class. No questions asked.</p>
<p>Start skipping class, and you will soon be on a downward spiral.</p>
<p>I would sit in the front row, and take good notes.</p>
<p>What they say in class is what is most likely to be on the exam.</p>
<p>I skip class sometimes. I work overnights on Sundays, so sometimes my 9am on Monday is not that high on my “I’d love to go” list… </p>
<p>I mostly go because I’m paying for school. Maybe if my parents were paying I’d feel differently, but if I’m shelling out all of these thousands of dollars per class, I’m going to make sure I go and get my money’s worth.</p>
<p>Also, even though we have a really relaxed university attendance policy (you can miss 8 for T/TH classes and 12 for MWF classes) I’m at a private school with really small classes that don’t get bigger than 30 but mostly are about 12-20 kids, so it’s super obvious if you skip</p>
<p>Haven’t missed a class since I got here. =) Back in middle or high school, I rarely even used being sick as an excuse to miss class; there’s no way that I’m skipping class in college just because it’s raining or cold, lol. Also, it helps that I like all my classes this semester (but even if I didn’t, I’d definitely still go to class… I came to college to learn, not to see how many classes I can get away with skipping).</p>
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<p>Exactly. And for 60k, you better learn something. Plus, for each class you miss, that’s another 3+ hours that you gotta make up.</p>
<p>Haha. No. I’m lucky if I go to all my classes in one day. I’m REALLY bad about that, I wish I was better.</p>
<p>I skipped all my classes Freshman year and I think it made it a lot harder on myself. I ended up with around a 3.9, but skipping definitely added a lot of unnecessary stress.
I told myself I’d fix that but I still only go to 2/8 classes consistently lol…</p>
<p>I don’t normally skip class, but there are a few lecture classes that I don’t go to. For example, my intro to biological anthropology is a complete waste of time. One the days I have that class, I have back-to-back internship-class-work from 8-5 without a break so I skip class to go get lunch. I have a 4.0 in the class. I had another class last semester that was very strangely set up. We did assignments all online (blogging, paper, etc) that were almost entirely unrelated to the class. I tried to go because it was interesting, but we were never graded on anything we learned in class (there were no tests, etc). It made it very difficult to go because it was a class that was far away lol.</p>
<p>Discussion-based classes I try never to miss, but hey sometimes it happens.</p>
<p>I tend to skip humanities classes a lot more than other classes. I’m taking Spanish and Chinese and, while I’m definitely highly interested in them and enjoy going to class most days, they’re also the easiest classes for me to skip since it’s so easy to catch up. If I tried that with Psych or Calculus I’d be up a creek.</p>
<p>I haven’t skipped a single class since I got here, but I also haven’t been sick yet. Honestly, if I did skip a class, I would probably just sit on facebook or something. Going to class motivates me to start working once I get back to my dorm; that’s probably why I’m so unproductive on weekends.</p>
<p>Just curious - why skip class ? Aren’t you enrolled in college to learn, or are you there to party ? If the latter , I would not be happy to be your parent . ( PS- I have 4 kids , and the youngest is a Sophomore in college , with a 3.8 average )</p>
<p>I’ve heard some crazy excuses for skipping class. One even told me how he hast to commute 30 min to and from, and since he was no classes T/TH, he didn’t feel it was “economical” to come to his Mon-Fri class.
I personally have had my lazy days where I slept in or skipped out to have lunch with friends (it was an easy elective class and there was a sub that day) Early morning classes are killer, I’m often running late as it is and if I’m going to be more then 15 min late I usually just don’t go.
Its to your benefit to go to class trust me! I called it a bluff til one of my instructors showed me a list of students who missed more then 3 days of class in the semester and there exam grade compared to those who missed less then that… It was from A to Bs to Ds and Fs. If a class has slack attendance, often times the instructor will give extra credit or give away answers on the exam for those who show up (I had one instructor allow us regular attenders to take an exam early and open notes! and we didn’t haft to come to the next class where those who came then had to take non open notes)</p>
<p>@faux- I’m there to learn, I very rarely party. But I’m also often better at learning the material myself. The class I skip has a prof that teaches almost word for word from the power point which is posted online. Why waste the time walking to and from class for that?</p>
<p>Btw, I have a 3.8+ average.</p>
<p>I don’t skip class to party, btw. I mean I do party sometimes, but it has nothing to do with whether I skip. Mostly it’s due to oversleeping, deciding it would be more productive to work on something else, etc.</p>
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<p>There are valid excuses as to why people skip class. For example, if you’re honestly sick (and NOT faking it), it’s better to stay in bed where you won’t spread your sick germs around. When I get sick, I cough up a storm that’s loud and disruptive to everyone, so I skip going to classes for that reason. Last year, my coughs were so bad that even the cough medicines and Theraflu I had couldn’t stop it and my mom had to take me to the doctor. The coughing lasted for 3 whole months.</p>
<p>Lectures are often slow-paced and remedial – that is, they’re designed to accommodate people who refuse to do the readings and keep up with the material like normal college students are expected to do. That’s the way it has been at my school, at least. I’m only a sophomore, so I do expect to see less of this when I get to some of the tougher classes for my majors. I did come in with a lot of AP credit though, and this is what I’ve observed in several of the classes that people have labelled as “weed-out” or “difficult”.</p>
<p>But yeah, I see little reason to go to class when it’s more efficient to learn from the book. Of course, there is room for disagreement here, and I’m definitely not looking down on people who go to class. For instance, if I were actually interested in my majors, that’d be reason enough to go to class. Unfortunately, I’m not, but that’s a different story.</p>
<p>EDIT: Also, I realize that what I’m describing definitely happens a lot less at the elite institutions that seem to be run-of-the-mill on this site haha. So yeah, state school perspective here.</p>
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<p>I really don’t see this at all at my state school. Most of my profs lecture on top of the book material, as in, the stuff from the text are the basics you need to understand if you’re going to be able to understand the material in lecture. </p>
<p>I looove to skip class, especially if its my last class of the day haha. But I’ve come up with a sytem where I limit myself to skipping one lecture per test unit.</p>