<p>You may think I’m ridiculous, but unless I’m throwing up with a fever, etc., I’m going to class. I rarely ever get that sick, but I still don’t find a cold or a cough an excuse. I show up to class regardless, with both water and a full pack of cough drops in my bag. JMHO.</p>
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<p>This is very, very true. I’m an upper division student, and the higher up you go, the less “standard” textbooks you will use. Your classes will be based heavily on discussion and non-textbook readings, e.g. novels, monographs, scholarly articles, etc.</p>
<p>I’m extremely stubborn about going to every class. It got really bad at one point and I went anyway when I was in extreme pain and had to end up walking out. I pretty much collapsed in the bathroom and started puking blood and had to call for an ambulance. Not proud of that but I learned from it and now if I wake up and I have difficulty getting out of bed from pain or extreme dizziness I’ll skip. Otherwise I’ll go.</p>
<p>I haven’t skipped yet. I only have one class I’d really feel comfortable skipping if I weren’t feeling well or if I had a lot of work but I haven’t run into that situation. Its an intro to psych class where the teacher lectures directly off the powerpoint (which is online), so I wouldn’t be in bad shape if I missed it once or twice, but going to class is just going to make it easier on me!</p>
<p>I try and keep skipping down to a minimum. I skip physics a lot because I can learn it from the book. The professor is monotone, has a very heavy accent, and is a pretty overall poor teacher. </p>
<p>Not including physics I have skipped (I think) a total of 4 times this semester in all other classes combined? Not bad compared to last year. </p>
<p>I do enjoy going to most classes. I could have gone with an easy A sociology class to fulfill my last gened, but I went with a class where I am borderline A/B. Reason being is because I wanted to learn something new, and I try to find good professors in order to do it. Only problem is when my school only offers one section of a class (there is only one physics I class offered this semester, bleh).</p>
<p>Yes I do, I know I’m almost never going to be doing something more productive with my time so I just go. </p>
<p>I actually kinda feel the opposite of PRQuin… my parents are paying for college and I feel horrible when I miss classes for no good reason because it’s their money going down the drain.</p>
<p>I agree completely with floridadad55. My friend who lives right across from me started skipping chemistry lecture and originally didn’t go because he just didn’t feel like it, but he figured it would just happen once or twice and he’d rebound. He’s been in class once or twice in the last month and has scored very poorly on the last few exams as a result of this. Skipping class is seriously so easy and so tempting when there’s no attendance policy and you have the freedom to just do whatever you want. </p>
<p>I’ve only voluntarily skipped class twice, both for chemistry (once because I was being stupid and lazy, the second time because I had my class registration appointment at the same time and I didn’t really want to go to class and potentially lose out on getting good classes). Otherwise, I overslept my history discussion once (but we’re allowed one penalty-free absence), and I missed chemistry another time because I had to take a bus to this conference. Otherwise, I haven’t missed class and I feel pretty lousy if I don’t go.</p>
<p>I just had the last day of classes today in my first semester of college and am proud to say I did not skip any classes! If it had happened ever, it would be due to oversleeping (and the most likely would be for the T-R 8 am class because it’s just too early, but I went to every class even that early!). A lot of professors take attendance or at least know if you’re not there since I go to a small LAC and we have all small classes. Other than band, which is like 40something people, my largest is my history class with like 30, then music theory with about 20, and then everything else is between 1-13 people (1, as in only me, in private lessons, since I’m a music major).</p>
<p>Smaller size classes very often have an attendance policy. To the point of having you sign in right in front of the instructor on your way out. Save up your skip days so if you do legitimately get sick or want to take a long weekend to go out of town, you can do so without worry.</p>
<p>I mentioned weather because I’m in high school and taking a college class of 30-ish people (the class is 300-level and required for their majors), and I always notice a huge drop in attendance when the weather gets bad. And then there are people who only come on test days.</p>
<p>I wonder what the people who regularly skip do. I see them on test days, and they don’t seem like social people. And the class is at 3pm.</p>
<p>Only skip class when I oversleep and am going to be >10 minutes late. There are thousands of kids who would kill for my spot at this school, so if I’m not doing everything I can, I feel like I’m letting the opportunity go to waste.</p>
<p>I started skipping sociology because I felt it was a waste of time, and that feeling started to spread to some of my other classes, which put twice the work on me at the end of the semester to catch up; definitely a downward spiral that I don’t want to experience in another semester again lol. I was still in high school “I’ll do the bare minimum” mode smh.</p>
<p>@ Corvids: Sometimes people skip class and only come in on test days if all the professor does is read straight off the powerpoint that can be found on Blackboard or whatever other site professors like to use. I had a history professor in summer who read off the powerpoint slides that he uploaded onto Blackboard. If attendance wasn’t mandatory and part of our grade, I would’ve only come in on test days because I could easily just read through the Powerpoint lecture slides on Blackboard during my own time without wasting time coming to class and having my professor read off those slides word-for-word.</p>
<p>I’ve missed a few classes. Missed a day when I was sick. Missed some because of trips for the speech team. Skipped a few math classes because I knew the material and just didn’t want to go (I knew I was getting an A anyway). I usually have a good reason to miss, and never missed a class I needed to go to. I don’t think I ever missed my seminar. Most other classes I may have missed once or twice, except math, which may have been five times. My grades didn’t suffer in any of these (I actually got a better grade in math than I did in my seminar, which I never skipped).</p>
<p>I do consider skipping every day, for the first 10 minutes after I wake up. But hopefully next semester will be better, since I have better times for classes.</p>
<p>I’ve always gone to my classes, although most have attendance policies so I sort of have too. Even if it wasn’t required, I can’t imagine not going for fear that I would actually miss something important. </p>
<p>To be honest, it was hard to motivate myself to go to my 8 AM, but you just do what you have to do.</p>
<p>Even though my lectures last quarter were boring AF, I never skipped a single one. Like previously stated, I’m paying for my education, so why waste money…</p>
<p>I took a math class my first semester that had very little material that I hadn’t learned in high school because it was a major requirement, so I hardly ever went to class except for tests.</p>
<p>I had an afternoon class this semester with extremely boring and often useless lectures, so if I had something to do after lunch I’d skip that, which happened quite a few times.</p>
<p>However, I hardly ever skipped my other classes. I skipped my MWF 9 AM a few times when I knew we wouldn’t be doing anything because the professor was at a conference or doing field work or had said it was a review day, but even then that was only if I couldn’t roll out of bed.</p>
<p>I always go to my other classes unless I accidentally oversleep, which doesn’t happen all that often. Tuition isn’t exactly cheap, so no sense wasting it.</p>
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<p>This. Every morning I consider whether it’s important to go to any of my classes. I plan my classes so that my first or second class is one I won’t be able to convince myself to skip so that I win the battle and go to class.</p>
<p>Next semester I don’t anticipate skipping many classes at all unless I’m sick.</p>
<p>I didn’t go to any of my classes after the first day, and I still have the highest mark in all of my classes. In some of my classes, the class average was as low as a 30 before the bell curve. What a bunch of losers.</p>
<p>I rarely skip class. I think I skipped 2 chem classes and 1 bio class this whole semester. One was because it was raining and I didn’t have an umbrella, and the others were probably from oversleeping.
I feel like I definitely need to go to my chem classes because lectures help me a lot; bio, I enjoy going to; and my writing and sociology classes took attendance.</p>