<p>For the past few weeks, I've been skipping class a lot. I was extremely diligent at the beginning of the school year, but my will quickly deteriorated. Hooray for utter laziness. :3 My attendance rate in every class is probably less than 40%, haha. It must be close to 20%, actually. I just can't bring myself to get up and go unless it's absolutely mandatory. My grades aren't suffering at all, but I still feel really bad because, well, I paid for this stuff! D:</p>
<p>How do you guys feel about skipping class, and how often do you do it?</p>
<p>Well, if attendance counted as a grade, I obviously wouldn’t skip (or at least not as often as I do). I certainly hope I don’t get any classes where it does matter…</p>
<p>I’ve found that the hour or so spent in class on a given day is a better investment in saving time than having to spend additional time studying material you’ve never dealt with before an exam. Lecture classes that are purely regurgitations of a textbook are worth skipping, I agree, but those aren’t overly common, and everything else has some degree of value. Skipping seminars is just stupid and lazy.</p>
<p>This year I only skipped once, and that was because I was sick, suffered a sleepless night, and was going to have to drive out of state later. </p>
<p>But in my first year? Oh yeah, I skipped a LOT. Attendance wasn’t mandatory in a lot of my classes, and in many of them the work or lectures we did was always posted online. One of my teachers even said that all we had to do was e-mail the homework, he could care less if we didn’t show up. So I definitely took advantage of it.</p>
<p>I always go to class- and look forward to it- with my major classes. General education’s a different story. </p>
<p>It’s really not all that uncommon to skip a lot of classes, especially if attendance isn’t mandatory. I saw that a lot at my old school (especially on Fridays and when it rained). Not that I would really recommend it.</p>
<p>This year all of my teachers had strict attendance policies so of course I showed up. And for other years I’d hardly ever skip the whole day but just a class or two, like I said because it didn’t really matter if I was there or not.</p>
<p>I don’t skip much at all now. Only times this semester when I did that were when I was feeling rather ill and didn’t wanna go to a lecture, and when I skipped two classes (my last two of the day) to catch up on a backlog of math homework and study for an exam. </p>
<p>I know that if I skipped I would most likely not be doing anything productive, so I figure there’s not much point in skipping.</p>
<p>i skipped probably half of my math lectures in the first month because it was calculus review. </p>
<p>i havent skipped a single chem lecture, but the professor is complete crap and it would probably make more sense to skp them and read the book during lecture time in my room than to attend.</p>
<p>“I just can’t bring myself to get up and go unless it’s absolutely mandatory.”</p>
<p>I was this way for about five weeks earlier this year - I attended two classes per week, because they were once-a-week evening seminars and I was already awake for them due to earlier obligations (work shifts). Once I realized the extent of the problem (upon looking through my notes and seeing just how long it had been since I’d been to class), I was jolted into action, and I’ve been fairly diligent since then.</p>
<p>As simpsonman points out, for some classes, it’s not necessary to go, and it may in fact be beneficial to spend your time doing other things and to learn the material on your own. It is unlikely, but possible, that 80% of your class time is better spent doing other things. (Are you incredibly autodidactic?) </p>
<p>An additional note: I was diagnosed with depression today, which I’m sure has something to do with how difficult it is for me to wake up unless it is necessary. Are you feeling OK in general?</p>
<p>I haven’t skipped any of my classes except one, which I skip pretty frequenly. I’ve probably missed 5 of 6 lectures. I can’t just bear to go, and it’s really not necessary since she posts her notes, powerpoints, and videos online.</p>
<p>I have probably around 10-20% attendance rate But then, none of my classes gives out attendance points. If they did, I would definitely go. I just feel that I can learn the material much more effective by reading the book myself. I usually only attend the review sessions.</p>
<p>It depends on the usefulness of the class. I’m in a class right now where the prof wrote the textbook, and lecture is like having the book read to you. Top that off with a discussion section where the book is read to you AGAIN, and it gets ridiculous. I usually skip that lecture once a week (it’s twice a week) and I always skip the discussion section since my TA barely speaks English. </p>
<p>I also have one class that’s every day, and I usually go, but maybe once every two weeks I skip. Since class is so frequent, you can easily make up anything. None of my classes have any attendance requirements. I usually go to my other two classes, one’s a lecture that moves fast, and one’s a really boring seminar I could do without, but my crush is in that class so I never skip ;)</p>
<p>I don’t know, I’m really utilitarian when it comes to education. If I think something is pointless, or I don’t need it to get a grade I’m okay with, I’m not going to do it.</p>
<p>My first lecture is literally “What you should have read yesterday”. What a waste of time. I show up to my other lectures and all the quiz sections.</p>
<p>^ if tuition is too high for you to skip one day when you have the flu then you might want to look into a new school! News flash, no one wants to be in class with you having the flu!!!</p>
<p>Also there are always those wonderful lectures where the professor literally just reads straight from slides and have tests based straight from slides.</p>
<p>I skip fairly often, but I haven’t really fallen behind at all. There are points where it might be an issue for me, but I’d say I attend at least half of my classes. I don’t think it’s a big deal if you ditch a lot, but everyone’s different. If you really aren’t falling behind going that little of the time, then why not?</p>
<p>I would skip my Econ lecture every day if I was sure the prof didn’t take daily attendance. In my lecture, it takes the prof 20 minutes to start class, 15 minutes to go over ** one ** stupid “warm up” problem, 5 minutes for announcements, and then he spends a total of about 20 minutes side-tracking or talking about his ex-wife throughout the lecture. That leaves about 15 minutes of actual econ-related lecture, which is purely him putting definitions on the projector and rehashing exactly what we read in the book. I skip this class once every few weeks, except god forbid we have “one minute papers” at the end of class on which we have to write our names; so I think he used those for attendance. So this nonsense isn’t optional.</p>
<p>Other than that, I’ve been a goody good so far and haven’t ever skipped a class. I had the stomach flu in October and was throwing up constantly, and I still managed to get my ass to class.</p>
<p>I think it really depends on person to person. Some people can handle skipping classes while some people learn better in class than others etc. Me:</p>
<p>I skip all of my stats lecture classes (twice a week). It is so boring, 8:30am class, he doesn’t take attendance (300 person class), when I go I don’t pay attention, and I get nothing out of it (he also posts all lecture notes online). I go to all recitation classes (once a week) because this is when the TA explains things relatively well (in a 20 person setting). </p>
<p>I go to about 75% of my earth systems science classes. There is no attendance, all lectures are posted online, and I show up to turn in all assignments. I just don’t care enough to go once in a while, even though the subject is somewhat interesting. </p>
<p>I go to all of my Latin American/Caribbean studies seminar classes. </p>
<p>I go to all of my econ classes - he takes attendance with only 20 people in the class, and I actually like the class a lot (it is my major…)</p>
<p>I have been to all but 1 of my science and war classes. Attendance is also taken, discussion-based, participation required etc. Plus it is also my major…</p>
<p>I go to all of the classes that are important to me…the gen. eds (stats & science) mean nothing to me and I just need to get through them to graduate. Am I doing well in those classes - I could be doing a lot better, but I’m not the person who learns well in class…I’m more of an independent study type of person. I know what I’m good at and I choose to excel in those classes, but beyond that I could care less.</p>
<p>I attend almost all of my classes since attendance is almost always mandatory. I don’t really see the point in skipping, it will take so much longer to review the material on my own. Not to mention that it’s a waste of tuition.</p>
<p>Not suprised by the responses (I expected it-but idc, i am just bold enough to state the truth-many have been sick and gone to school) but reality check: Many do this. I just happened to be the type to suck it up and rest during vacations. IVE seen it and chances are you have too. Get over it. Its life. I sound offensive but its just a reality.</p>
But then, none of my classes gives out attendance points. If they did, I would definitely go. I just feel that I can learn the material much more effective by reading the book myself. I usually only attend the review sessions.</p>