<p>I live 4 hours from college and came home for the weekend.My first lecture is on monday and I've just figured that I can't get a ride back till Monday night. If I don't show will they kick me out of the class?Is there anything I can do to ensure they don't. I'm in a huge panic right now!</p>
<p>Well, just politely e mail the Professor. And, then try really hard to have things worked out a little better next time. </p>
<p>peaceout</p>
<p>really shouldn't go home the first weekend...</p>
<p>they won't kick you out but you won't get a lot of important info, which means even if the professor doesn't know you're missing the first day, he'll know you weren't there when you have to go to him and ask him to repeat all the important things he said the first day. </p>
<p>Lessons learned, but don't go home until you're sure you can get back.</p>
<p>try to take the bus or train...if not, you can always pay someone to drive you back.</p>
<p>Check to see if the prof has a web site, and if the professor has a copy of his/her syllabus that you can download. If so, you can get an overview of the class and info about any assignments that are due. You also will find out when the prof's office hours are so that you can stop by and catch up with anything else important that you've missed. Don't make the mistake, however, of expecting that the prof will go over his/her entire lecture. </p>
<p>When you go to class, see if you also can get someone's notes.</p>
<p>One good thing: Often prof's first lectures are very short, mainly an overview of the class. That's because students still are adding/dropping classes.</p>
<p>Finally, it's usually a bad idea to go home a lot during your first few months in college. You miss opportunities to make friends and to learn how to handle campus life. Give yourself the chance to learn to adjust to college by sticking around on weekends unless it's something like a holiday weekend.</p>
<p>Check your college's rules. I know one public institution that does kick students out of courses if they don't show up the first date. That's because most classes have a long list of students wanting to get in. No exceptions are made.</p>
<p>I think you do need to e-mail the professor, because if you go to a school like mine where if you don't show up the first day they drop you, then it's something that needs to be taken care of NOW. So, if at all possible, find a way to get back. Have your parents drop you, publlic transport, etc. </p>
<p>Do be polite in the e-mail...something like "I am unable to attend you first class and am sorry for the inconvenience." Likely, the syllabus will be online or you can copy from a classmate and can ask them as well what was gone over.</p>
<p>email the prof. that's all.</p>
<p>it's not like anything will really happen in the first lecture anyways; but the polite thing to do is email.</p>
<p>I would stop by the prof's office and see if you can pick up what you missed... if not then send an e-mail. I'm not a fan of e-mailing a prof to tell them i'm missing a class unless I know that prof. Plus a lot of times there is handouts on the first day that you'll then have to get on the second day anyway, so you might as well stop by his/her office and take care of that ahead of time.</p>
<p>like kwtortoise said - some profs drop you if you don't show up the first day. If people are waitlisted for a class they really need to take and they show up the first day.. there is no sense if keeping someone else in the class that didn't even show up.. so drop them & add the waitlisted person that cared enough to show up. If you email the professor and say that your travel arrangements got screwed up and you'll miss the first class, they probably wouldn't drop you.</p>
<p>Unless it's a small class with 20 people, the professor won't even know you're missing. So I wouldn't be worried about getting kicked out.</p>
<p>As far as the work you miss, just ask someone in the class for their notes.</p>
<p>It's really not a huge deal. People miss lectures all the time (even during first week). You'll be fine.</p>
<p>it's not that bad. don't worry about it. it's much better to be missing now than lter in the semester when everythings more important. just make sure you get a copy of the syllabus and you should be fine.
(I would still email the professor though).</p>
<p>why go home the first weekend....interesintg</p>
<p>i know a lot of kids go home the first weekend if they live near by because it's typically labor day weekend.. at least i think it was at my school anyway...</p>
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<p>Maybe they had to make more than one trip to move their things. </p>
<p>Just politely e mail the Professor avaprob. No Professor is going to drop someone who e mails them politely for missing one day.</p>
<p>Maybe next time, go Greyhound or something. </p>
<p>I personally do not recommend public transportation if the University is four hours away. In public transportation math, four hours, equals like five buses-which equals one whole blessed day on buses.</p>
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<p>Mine does that and I will never understand it. Just start after Labor Day, man. Shucks, I am tired of that.</p>
<p>Thanks guys for the advice . I e-mailed her and she was very understanding so I've learned a lesson!</p>
<p>I come from a small towm 2,000 people and everyone comes home every weekend. Likewise in my college everybody that I met was going home. I don't think anybody expect the international students stay the weekend.</p>
<p>I guess I was thinking that it was still HS. So is that the procedure if your sick or something. You just get notes from someone else and there's no need to tell the professor. Wow this is gonna be a big change!!</p>