<p>I have a question regarding coming home thanksgiving...</p>
<p>I want to take a 2 pm flight on the last day of classes before break... I was wondering if this is a big deal regarding students possibly missing a class in the afternoon...</p>
<p>Do any Wisconsin students know anything about this?</p>
<p>All depends on the prof. You won't be the only one leaving a little early, I bet.</p>
<p>I had the same problem. Not a problem. Odds are low as a freshmen that you'll have some intense small course and remember a lot of the profs have plans too!</p>
<p>If you have a discussion that day, speak with the TA about a month before.</p>
<p>At least half of the student body, perhaps more, leaves early before breaks. Most teachers are fine with this, and some even go out of their way to make it easy to cut these days (for example, they will show a film that day that can be viewed at the library beforehand, and if they assign a paper due that day will encourage those leaving early to hand it in before they go). Some teachers, however, disapprove of the practice and will deliberately make it difficult to cut by taking attendance or holding a quiz during that last class. Like the earlier poster said, if you talk to the prof or TA early and tell them that your plans are determined by flight schedules, they should be pretty sympathetic. Most of the students who cut those last classes are just doing it because they want to, not because they have to.</p>