<p>Guilty
Ugh, guilty is an understatement. So I left studying for an exam until the last minute, and decided to pull an all-nighter to study for it...thing is, I accidentally fell asleep and woke up half an hour before my class. So I panicked, and...wrote my professor an e-mail pretending to be sick. There was no way that I was going to pass that exam in the mental shape I was in (trust me), and exams are more than ten percent of your final grade, and I just couldn't risk it. I feel horribly guilty about that, though; I'm not the kind of person who usually does something like this, and now I'm trying to convince myself that this isn't who I am because this isn't what I usually do; I don't usually cheat or take the easy way out when it comes to school. I don't even know if the professor will let me make it up (if I were her, I sure as hell would know when her students were trying to get out of something), but if she does, I'll definitely study my ass off. If there's anything to alleviate my guilt at this point it's that there is grain of truth in the e-mail, because I did wake up feeling physcially crappy (although it was probably my panicked oh-my-god-I'm-screwed state of mind that did it). What would you guys have done if you woke up this morning in my position?</p>
<p>If I got into that mess I would have taken my licks and moved on. It would have been ugly, but I would have recognized that I could have handled the whole thing better.</p>
<p>I would have taken the exam. A big coffee shot ... and wing it! </p>
<p>That's exactly what happened two Tuesdays ago -- 82%. The class average was 67. I had fallen asleep studying and woke up TEN MINUTES BEFORE THE EXAM. At that time I had thought, "oh ****". But I wung it. Honor code and all. Was it the lack of sleep or the lack of study that killed you?</p>
<p>I only have one class that even gives exams this semester, Art History. I would wing it if I had just woken up without studying, but that's because that class' tests are more about analyzing images than memorization.</p>
<p>anyway you shouldn't feel guilty about that, people do way worse things.</p>
<p>Just to warn you, your professor may require a doctor's note in order to let you make up your exam. I'm not suggesting to run to the doctor's and fake an illness. But currently, there still is the chance that you could end up with a zero. If you're really lucky and your professor is super-nice, you might get a pass, esp. if you're a freshman.</p>
<p>fizz3l is correct, you could be required to provide documentation.</p>