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Did you guys attend all your classes in college?

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Originally posted by: Dr Smooth
I did not realize until my last year that I got better grades when I went to every class.

I used to be like this, but I realized it second semester junior year. I really regret it, too.
 
Originally posted by: j@cko
Originally posted by: Blayze
No

I missed a lot in one of my classes, but the instructor didn't care. I might have went once a week, but I made sure to be there for the exams.

Turned in a paper 2 months late as well. Still got a A in the class.

what college?

A local community college.

Thats probably why I got away with doing that.
 
Originally posted by: RabidMongoose
Originally posted by: Millennium
Originally posted by: Dr Smooth
I did not realize until my last year that I got better grades when I went to every class.

If I go to class I do much worse. I am so apathetic, that I can't being around stupid people.

Maybe you should try to go to a better school.

lol....
 
Originally posted by: RabidMongoose
Originally posted by: Millennium
Originally posted by: Dr Smooth
I did not realize until my last year that I got better grades when I went to every class.

If I go to class I do much worse. I am so apathetic, that I can't being around stupid people.

Maybe you should try to go to a better school.

You attend/attended UAH which has a very similar ranking as UAB. In fact, I believe UAB is ranked higher. So I should go to UAH then? That's a bit of a commute.
 
Course not. First year was the worst. I remember there was a time during the second term of first year where it was either one or two weeks where I believe I didn't go to a single class. To be honest I still, 4 years later (graduated uni in 99) have dreams where I've skipped so many classes that I missed an exam (once slept through one not realizing that that day was an exam oops!), or I'm so grossly far behind I'm screwed, etc.
 
i didn't skip at all in first year, but then i started skipping classes where i could learn the stuff myself from lecture notes posted online, books etc. i just ask my friends for important things that you can get only in class.

spending 3+ hours on bus/train a day isn't fun nor productive. i can't do much on the bus cuz i get car sick if i read, sometimes even if i dont read. so i try to minimize the commute time 😀
 
Originally posted by: Skoorb
Course not. First year was the worst. I remember there was a time during the second term of first year where it was either one or two weeks where I believe I didn't go to a single class. To be honest I still, 4 years later (graduated uni in 99) have dreams where I've skipped so many classes that I missed an exam (once slept through one not realizing that that day was an exam oops!), or I'm so grossly far behind I'm screwed, etc.

lol... that's how i feel right now..... and i have 3 tests today.... i'm not ready for them..
 
Originally posted by: nick1985
Originally posted by: TommyVercetti
I attended maybe 20% of my classes. 🙁

is that why you failed calc?

Dammit, people remember stuff! No, that is the class I actually attended, but zoned out. Zoning out was a huge problem, and that is the main reason I quit attending classes.
 
I did start off with decent attendance last year, but then I started to catch on. I even had a lecturer that was chinese with a lisp teaching a programming language, I couldn't understand him no matter what, so I stopped going to his classes and just read his lecturer notes from the studentweb. Stopped attending some other classes at times, cause they got as boring too.
 
Originally posted by: pillage2001
No but intentionally missed a couple of classes only because I had to.

Ditto here, didn't skip because I was lazy, skipped only because there were so much other crap to do.
 
My freshman year, I remember skipping a lot of my 8am math classes. My sophomore year, I skipped a lot of my Business Law classes. Otherwise, I remember being pretty good about class attendance for the most part. I attended all of my German classes, all of my Chem classes, and all classes of any subject I found difficult.
 
I had a huge (200+ student) History class in a lecture hall that I attended 3 times. I went the first day, the midterm and the final and I got a C+. I don't know if I'm proud of that or not. I just read the book. Painfully boring stuff.
 
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