HeroOfPellinor
Lifer
- Dec 27, 2001
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I showed up to class once and realized while walking through the door, that we had a paper due. I ran to my car, sped home, wrote it, got back in time for the last few minutes of class, turned it in, and got a B.
My advice to you...play dumb. Don't offer any excuses or, worse yet, possible fixes. Just tell him you missed it cause your alarm didn't go off and then stand there like a deer caught in headlights until he proposes a solution. His pity is all that can save you.
My advice to you...play dumb. Don't offer any excuses or, worse yet, possible fixes. Just tell him you missed it cause your alarm didn't go off and then stand there like a deer caught in headlights until he proposes a solution. His pity is all that can save you.
May I suggest an alarm clock? They work wonders for ensuring you are up on time and are less prone to failure than humans! 
sucks to be irresponsible. heh.
tell the professor the truth and hope for the best. unless he's a real jerk or a crybaby, I'm sure he'll by sympathetic.
tell the professor the truth and hope for the best. unless he's a real jerk or a crybaby, I'm sure he'll by sympathetic.
Mermaidman
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- Sep 4, 2003
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Yep, just call or e-mail immediately, tell the truth, and hope for the best. Its happened to people I know, and luckily their professors let them take it again (in two instances). I haven't heard of profs saying "tough", but it could very well happen.
I had a similar experience. The one class had several sections. I looked up the wrong section to see when the exam was. I thought it was on Thursday when it was on Wednesday. Fortunately the professor let me make it up, although I had to do a written essay instead of taking the exam. He wasn't too pleased either, but at least he was civil about it.
In the years since college, I frequenly have dreams where I miss a final/forget I even signed up for a class/etc. Wonder if it has to do with my exam-missing experience.
In the years since college, I frequenly have dreams where I miss a final/forget I even signed up for a class/etc. Wonder if it has to do with my exam-missing experience.
I'll have to try that. Thanks!
But aside from that, if you're a girl, cry as if your mother died. Most male teachers have a weakness for that. And if you're a guy, you're screwed. Not even the truth will save you
happened to me a few times. go to the student health center right away and complain of severe stomach pain. get a note from the doctor and present it to your professor. he'll let you reschedule it.
There was one thing that I learned in college. Buy an alarm clock that you would mistake for the fire alarm. If need be, buy 2 of them.
You will learn never to oversleep again.
You will learn never to oversleep again.
Indeed.
I did this to plenty of people in college. They'd ask me to wake them up, I'd give a non-commital answer, and then sleep-in.
Way I figure, I'm their friend, not their mother. (though speaking of... I did know some people in college, especially Freshmen, who had their parents call them in the morning to wake them up).
Fingolfin269
Lifer
- Feb 28, 2003
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I rely on two alarm clocks now that I'm not in college. Hell, if you missed a day of class or were late it didn't really matter. If you show up at work a few hours late a couple of times then you're messing with your livelihood.
Haha.
For about 2 weeks, I used to try and wake my roommate up for class. I figure I'd help a brotha out if I knew he had to be somewhere, and I'd appreciate him doing the same for me.
But after that I realized he was just a slacker, and I wasn't going to play his mother for the whole year.
He flunked out, btw, b/c he never went to class. Ever.
And put it on the other side of the room so you have to actually get out of bed to turn it off.
Another true story ...
Walked into ROTC class once and realized we had oral presentations due ... something about nuclear arms proliferation and the START treaty IIRC. I had completely blown it off except for some preliminary research when it was first assigned (weeks before). Of course, I get called to do mine first.
So I completly winged it ... lecture style, chalk on the board instead of viewgraphs, etc. Prof. gave me a B ... said my content was about C level, but was impressed by my impromptu, seat-of-the-pants delivery, and that I hadn't wussed out and said I wasn't ready so gave me a B overall. But told me I'd fail if I tried it again
edit: on the original topic ... don't even bother making something up. Throw yourself on the mercy of the prof. and hope for the best.
You could imitate my uncle.
He used the excuse that his parents died in a car wreck three times in one year with the same professor and got away with it. That said, the prof had huge classes and was senile, but . . . . .
He used the excuse that his parents died in a car wreck three times in one year with the same professor and got away with it. That said, the prof had huge classes and was senile, but . . . . .
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