For a while there, I wasn’t sure I would make it.
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For a while there, I wasn’t sure I would make it.
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The closer to graduation, the harder it is for me to get my ass out of bed and go to class.
I’m good the first few weeks. Then we get closer to the middle of the semester and I start slacking. Then, after a holiday break, I’m back on track… only to slide again come the end of the semester. Next year is my last year, but I’m hoping to stay on track to keep up my GPA for a good graduation index.
This semester: I attended every Seminar class meeting, all but one Spanish meeting, I skipped two Marriage meetings, and also skipped at least 4 Methods meetings. We’ll see how my grades reflect this pattern.
What kills me is attendance is required by each professor at my school. They give you three absences and that’s it. I rarely miss class and when I do it’s because of poor weather. Yet the younins who come in late, if at all, still do as well, if not better than me. It makes me mad.
My Marriage class instructor took attendance, which only gets reflected in our attendance grade (maybe 10% of the final grade), and my Seminar class was a skip-at-your-own-death type of class. There was no missing that class, although a couple people did.
I don’t agree with requiring attendance at the university level. We’re paying for our education (or your parents are paying, if you’re lucky) and if we want to waste our money by skipping frequently — or if we’re just having a bad day every now and again — that’s our problem.
I’m still waiting to hear a good reason to require attendance.
I agree with you. But since they do require it then I expect it to be uniformly metered out. And it’s not.