<p>In any given semester, how many times do you cut class? </p>
<p>I know kids who skip just because they aren't "feeling" a particular 8am one day while I know other kids who wouldn't skip under any circumstance unless they were on their death bed. The wide range is quite interesting. </p>
<p>I have never skipped a class the whole time I’ve been in college. I missed one class one time because I was going on a campus visit, and I’d arranged it with the professor ahead of time to make sure I could get up to speed on the missed material. </p>
<p>I miss class more than I’d like to, and I always feel guilty about it. Its usually not a reason like I didn’t “feel” like it. Honestly, most of the time it’s because I’m working on homework or studying for another class. It’s a vicious cycle…</p>
<p>NEVER! (Of course, I haven’t even finished one semester…) What if I miss out on something??? I think that skipping would give me an anxiety attack or something! JK, not really. But I don’t like missing things. :)</p>
<p>I’m recently graduated, I missed maybe a dozen classes (lectures, sections, labs) total while I was in college. I only missed if I was really sick (and didn’t want to infect others) or if a project group needed to meet then. I also avoided 8am classes (anything before 11am, really) because I don’t like being up early, so that was never an excuse to skip.</p>
<p>I dunno, I feel like skipping classes in college is like paying for a hotel room and sleeping outside on a bench. I mean, if you’re going to spend thousands to go to school, you should really make the effort to attend all your classes.</p>
<p>I skipped one or no classes most semesters. First semester senior year I skipped 3 classes, but I had a lot going on and it felt justified. Each class is worth waaayyy too much money to callously throw them away</p>
<p>I’ve had several classes I essentially didn’t attend at all, and this thread makes me feel like the scum of the earth. </p>
<p>I would say you could miss probably 1-2 classes per test in each class if there’s no attendance grade. I try not to skip unless if I’m just too tired to attend a seven thirty class or if it’s such an easy class that it won’t hurt my grade at all.</p>
<p>Agreed, I feel like I’m suddenly the bad guy here for not having diligently attended every single lecture and/or office hour session in existence. Some classes aren’t conducive to having great attendance. For instance, I rarely go to Intro Chem lectures and don’t really feel like I’ve missed out–when your lecture hall has 700 kids crammed inside and the instructor is going over how to read the periodic table in the fifth week of the quarter, it hasn’t been a bad idea to just practice the material on your own. </p>
<p>I think good attendance is pretty important in high school, but when so much of college is just learning how to read the textbook and self-study, I no longer think it’s that big a deal. Of course, YMMV. Just throwing a counterexample out there. </p>
<p>I only skip class if I have something like a doctor’s appointment or I’m really, really sick, or I have transit problems. My Freshman year, I only missed one full day and one class from another day do to illness. This school year, I missed one class because the bus took a wrong turn and bypassed my stop, and it only runs once an hour, and I’m missing one day later on for a doctor’s appointment. I do my best to attend every class.</p>
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I never go to office hours. I see those sessions as something you use when you need help, and I haven’t really had that need.</p>
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O_O There are universities with classes that big? I haven’t seen classes with more than 100, and that was one time only (it was Art History, funny enough). Even basic Math, which technically had 100 students, generally ran more like 40. Granted, my science courses are all Anthro and Geog, and my CC is only 25,000 students.</p>
<p>Most of my classes sneakily take attendance(graded discussion/class work, tiny classes etc) so I haven’t really had the option to miss. The only class that wouldn’t kill me to miss is Calc but I attend because I feel like the teacher’s doing a better job with the material than I would do on my own. </p>
<p>@Spaceship Yes, there are. My school had one class (intro CS) that was 1000+ students. 300-600 was pretty common in lower division courses, and the smallest upper div class I took was ~80 students. But there’s not much difference between a lecture with 50 students and a lecture with 1000, either one tends to be the professor doing all the talking. Most schools with lectures that big also have smaller sections (typically led by a TA or grad student) which allow students to get more personalized attention. Big classes can have their advantages as well, they’re more likely to be webcasted and it usually means lots of office hours.</p>
<p>I never skip some of my classes. In other classes I might skip up to half the lectures. There seems to be zero correlation between my class attendance and my grades.</p>
<p>My first year of college I missed a LOT. Just because I didn’t feel like going. I think I was just taking advantage of the fact that college isn’t high school. No one cares if you miss class. If you miss class your parents won’t even know. Lol. </p>
<p>But now REALLY regret skipping during my first year. If I would have gone to every class I’m are sure my grades would have been much higher and I would have probably made more friends. </p>
<p>Not as often as I’d like. But then, I’m the teacher.</p>
<p>I’ve only missed one class so far (freshman), but it was because I over slept. I freaked out and went to my professor’s office hours later that day to apologize profusely and go over the homework. Most professors at my university have a strict attendance policy and more than 2-3 absences will cause you to get a failing grade of V. </p>
<p>I’ve only skipped one chemistry lecture so far. </p>
<p>I finish really early in the day on Thursdays, and I only have 2 Friday classes. One of my Friday classes was cancelled last week, so I skipped the chem lecture so that I could have a 5 day weekend (no classes Monday and Tuesday because it was Fall Break). </p>
<p>I typically only skipped a class if I had way too much on my plate and needed the class time to study or write a paper. Generally, I only skipped classes that didn’t have an attendance policy and if I wasn’t learning anything in the class. I had a few classes where nothing of importance would get discussed and find myself having to learn straight from the book. Those kinds of classes I would skip, because it felt like a waste of time. For example, I had one lit class that was an hour and fifteen mins long. The class would spend about fifteen mins discussing related class material, while the other hour was spent ranting on some other topic. </p>
<p>I’m a freshman and I’ve skipped one hebrew class a week, and 2 chem classes so far. Hebrew’s at 9 am and that’s too early</p>