<p>Anyone who skipped classes in college ever feel guilty? Haha</p>
<p>I remember skipping Chemistry for a whole week out of laziness and I felt so bad. This is mainly because the class has about 50 students and she knew us all by face, so I'm pretty sure she knew I was skipping haha. I'm a wimp, so I always feel bad when skipping classes. :p</p>
<p>I never ever have any guilt whatsoever. I had an LGBT Studies class last semester and I literally only went three times because it was too early. That was a bigger class though, but I never cared. I also skipped my Norwegian class (about 10 people) once or twice a week without fail. I don’t think my teachers care and I don’t care if they do or not.</p>
<p>I’m kind of a big skipper though. I can’t remember the last week where I went to all my classes, it was probably the first week lol.</p>
<p>I always feel guilty for skipping classes. They’re already paid for, and most of the time, it’s nothing but a learning opportunity, so why waste?</p>
<p>I never skip out of laziness, just out of sickness/exhaustion.</p>
<p>If I consciously skip a class it’s because the instructor has not provided me with a reason to go. The knowledge attained from attending the class is not worth the time investment. Most of the time, if this is the case, then the instructor is not doing a good job. If the instructor isn’t doing a good job, then they should feel bad. There were only two classes I consciously skipped where I would say the instructor was at least okay. </p>
<p>One was an Anthropology class I had no interest in, but took because the time was convenient and I needed to take some social science class. The instructor was fine, but the material didn’t seem useful to me. The instructor didn’t seem the type to take it personally, so I didn’t feel bad about it.</p>
<p>One was an Econ class (not the one I started a thread about a year or so back). The instructor was fine but I think he spent too much time explaining math, which I didn’t need. I think this was a flaw of the structure of the class outside the control of the professor. The class had 360 or so kids in it, so he obviously didn’t notice me.</p>
<p>I have accidentally overslept before. It happens. </p>
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<p>Serious question. Are you paying for credits or an education? If you think about it for a minute, do you still feel like you’re wasting money by not attending a class that you find to be not useful?</p>
<p>Haha no way I’ve never skipped a class. But if I was the professor as soon as the student returned to class I would walk up to him/her and say in a serious voice: “I think you’re finished here.”</p>
<p>I don’t skip often but when I do I don’t feel TOO bad. I usually rationalize it by thinking “well, some people don’t ever go to class.”</p>
<p>I’m sure the prof doesn’t care much - they probably assume you’re sick or something. I got sick a lot last year and sometimes I had to skip for legitimate reasons.</p>
<p>"Are you paying for credits or an education? "</p>
<p>Technically, I’ve paid for the class. I feel like I should go to the class and “absorb” as much as possible. My professors would usually mention things that be on the test that might not be in the book, so it was also paying for education.</p>
<p>Besides, if you’re just going to skip the class and teach yourself the material, why take the class? Why not just rent a textbook and teach it to yourself on your own time?</p>
<p>I didn’t skip any classes - there was a good chunk of the week where I was stuck-in-bed sick in my Winter Quarter and only went based on absolute necessity. Otherwise, I try to attend every class I can. I take courses that I want to take - it’s really that simple. Yes, I can’t always get the perfect class, but there is still something to learn in listening to some great professors discuss topics they’ve spent most of their lives studying. It’s academically invigorating. If I didn’t go I would probably feel some guilt from my own lethargy. I get the classroom blues like everyone else and sometimes would rather just ignore certain lectures entirely, but I think the better of it; I’m here to learn, and I will do just that.</p>
<p>I usually only skip to catch up on sleep or homework. All of my instructors so far paid a lot of attention to who was there and who wasn’t. Also I am not that big a fan of skipping, seeing as so far, pretty much without fail, what was talked about during the classes I didn’t attend was part of the exam.</p>
<p>Only skipped if I was sick…no one wants you there if you are sick, it bugs me so I don’t do it either.</p>
<p>I am skipping the second half of my CC class today to watch the USA game :D</p>
<p>Vladenschlutte is spot-on. Most of my classes last year were taught directly from the book, and it was far more efficient for me to finish my good night’s sleep so I could study the book later. However… I never skip small classes. That’s just a horrible idea.</p>
<p>I only ever feel guilty for skipping classes for my major- which I hardly ever did. In fact, I’m not sure if I ever did.</p>
<p>But general education classes? No guilt at all. Sometimes my professor would be like “you only have to be here if you need to be”. A lot of the information was so easy to learn on my own. So if that meant I could have more time to sleep in, study, work on a paper, or leave early, I was excited. I worked a lot while taking all the general education classes so I was always happy to have extra time in my schedule.</p>
<p>I especially never felt guilty for skipping when I was sick. I’ll never understand why people come to class with the flu and all kinds of illnesses. We don’t want you getting us sick! For whatever reason they think the world will end if they skip that one little lecture. Most of my classes have never had <em>that</em> bad of an attendance policy, and if there was ever an issue an email to the professor could usually make it work out. No one wants someone in their class who is really sick.</p>
<p>One of my professors was even like “I don’t want you falling asleep all through my class, so if you need to sleep in, stay home”. That was one of those taught-from-the-book classes, so I took him up on his offer more than once, lol.</p>
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<p>Because you can’t get a job that requires proof of education that way.</p>
<p>I’ve skipped Chemistry before to study for a history class. They were back to back and the exam was just two essays- the prompts were given to us as we walked in the door. I always felt a little guilty, but chem was a huge class and no one noticed if you’d skipped. I could always read the book and then go to office hours, pretending I didn’t understand. I only did this a few times though, so I didn’t feel like I wasn’t getting my money’s worth /credits…</p>
<p>“I take courses that I want to take”</p>
<p>This too. My classes interested me, and I didn’t WANT to skip them.</p>
<p>““I take courses that I want to take””</p>
<p>With general education sometimes you don’t have a choice. Not all colleges have super cool course offerings, and not everyone is interested in all those classes. It’s just something you have to get through to get to the stuff you really want to take. I never skip classes I’m really interested in either. </p>
<p>Eventually I just learned to take those classes online. I could still teach myself the info., and I didn’t have to worry about not wanting to go to class.</p>
<p>How I see it is that I pay for an education, which includes multiple components including:
<p>Lectures are just one of several components available for education.</p>
<p>I always give lectures very high priority, but there are actually several times where I’ll justify skipping class when there’s more efficient use of time. For example, in terms of sleeping in: if I show up to class tired, I’m not going to absorb much (if anything), I’m going to demotivate the rest of the students who are actually there, and I’m not going to get the quality sleep I wanted. If I sleep instead, I still miss the material, but at least I get the sleep without interfering with my fellow classmates who actually want to be there or visibly lowering the morale of my instructor.</p>
<p>The same argument applies for sickness. As for other business: it’s really a balance of what needs to get done, and chances are, I accomplish all of my final goals if I skip the class but miss one of them (whatever time-sensitive business I have) if I decide to attend the class instead.</p>
<p>I’m going to be a sophomore next year, and I managed to make it through all of freshman year without skipping a class. Idk I think I would just feel bad skipping haha. Plus all of my classes are under 30 students, and professors definetly notice who’s there.</p>