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Wow... just.. I'm an idiot. UPDATED

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In freshman year, I didn't know about our CS midterm because I never went to class. It snowed the day of the test, cancelling school, and I found out later that night about the exam from my friend who also never went to class (but found out from someone else). Someone was lookin out for me there.
 
That sucks man, I have a similar story though happened to me today. I went to take my latin midterm and the teacher shows up a little more than 5 minutes late. I'm taking my time making sure I get everything perfect on the test cause I know all of it when all the sudden he says time is up. Honest to god I had 5 minutes of work left to do on that test and I could have easily made a 95 or better. Talk about being upset with a professor, he literally cost me a good part of my grade.
 
Originally posted by: notfred
Walked into my morning statistics class today and realized that there was a mid-term that I had absolutely no idea about, and therefore hasn't studied for. I gave a blank paper back to the professor and asked to meet him at his office hours. Damn, I hope he lets me take it over in a couple days or something. Sh!t, I feel like a retard.
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:Q

I have heard of nightmares like this....


 
Dude!!!

First of all, I admire you turning in your paper blank and then asking to meet with him. That was both risky and mature. It took ballz and it paid off.

2ndly, don't feel bad about forgetting. Later in life you will be plagued with forgetting key dates like anniversarys, valentines and birthdays. Get a comfy sofa and you won't have a problem.
 
If it's any consolation I once slept through a midterm and didn't realize until afterwards that I even had an exam that day. I somewhat frequently missed that class and I simply had no idea the exam was then. I feigned sick. The guy asked for a doctor's note, which I could not produce, and told him as much. In the end he let me take the exam and docked me a grade. I considered myself lucky (He was a nice guy and otherwise liked me).

To this day--that was 6-7 years ago--I still have dreams every couple of months about missing an exam or somehow totally forgetting that I have a major paper due in like an hour, and then in my dream I scramble to get it done.
 
Originally posted by: notfred
Walked into my morning statistics class today and realized that there was a mid-term that I had absolutely no idea about, and therefore hasn't studied for. I gave a blank paper back to the professor and asked to meet him at his office hours. Damn, I hope he lets me take it over in a couple days or something. Sh!t, I feel like a retard.
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Yes... you are.
 
Originally posted by: Argo
I've done that for a freshman level chemistry class. Not only did I forget about midterm and not study for it, and I didn't even plan on showing to the class. I remembered about it 20 minutes before the end of the class, when I started wondering where all my freshman friends were.

Luckily I took AP chemistry in high school so I knew all that stuff and ended up getting 90 on the exam.
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You finished a midterm in less than 20 minutes?😕
 
Attendance should be mandatory in college. Also most college degree programs are not nearly tough enough. Its all a big business now, volume sales. Get as many in as possible and make them stay as long as possible. There is just a certain percentage of the population that is just not cut out to be in college. The world will always need construction workers, janitors, and such. Not trying to sound demeaning just realistic.
 
Originally posted by: notfred
Walked into my morning statistics class today and realized that there was a mid-term that I had absolutely no idea about, and therefore hasn't studied for. I gave a blank paper back to the professor and asked to meet him at his office hours. Damn, I hope he lets me take it over in a couple days or something. Sh!t, I feel like a retard.
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TOO MUCH TIME ON ATOT makes u stupid
 
Don't forget to take your kneepads when you visit the prof.

Oops. I guess you did...

Originally posted by: notfred
He's going to let me take it tomrrow morning. 🙂 I'll be studying all evening.
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Originally posted by: Cleaner
Attendance should be mandatory in college. Also most college degree programs are not nearly tough enough. Its all a big business now, volume sales. Get as many in as possible and make them stay as long as possible. There is just a certain percentage of the population that is just not cut out to be in college. The world will always need construction workers, janitors, and such. Not trying to sound demeaning just realistic.
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Exactly.

This thread is a perfect example of the attitude in college now. Few people take it seriously. All of those people that screw around and waste time and money should fail. There are poor people that cannot afford to go to college that would love to have the opportunity these people have and would not waste it.

Now it's just a paper mill where people go to party and screw around for four years. Thus further devaluing my degrees.
 
Originally posted by: Cleaner
Attendance should be mandatory in college. Also most college degree programs are not nearly tough enough. Its all a big business now, volume sales. Get as many in as possible and make them stay as long as possible. There is just a certain percentage of the population that is just not cut out to be in college. The world will always need construction workers, janitors, and such. Not trying to sound demeaning just realistic.
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I disagree about attendance. If you can do the work and pass the tests without attending boring lectures, that should be sufficient.

I had a heat transfer class that I went to 4 times, the first day and for the 3 tests. The lectures were just going over stuff in the book. If you can learn on your own I see no need to waste time in class.
 
Originally posted by: Cleaner
Attendance should be mandatory in college. Also most college degree programs are not nearly tough enough. Its all a big business now, volume sales. Get as many in as possible and make them stay as long as possible. There is just a certain percentage of the population that is just not cut out to be in college. The world will always need construction workers, janitors, and such. Not trying to sound demeaning just realistic.
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Why do you think attendance should be required? At the risk of sounding like I'm tooting my own horn, I managed to graduate with honors, while skipping more than third of my classes. Some people need to write everything down, other can manage by reading the book. I do agree that certain classes should be made much harder, but then again my college already had pretty low graduation rate (I went to a pretty tough technical college).
 
Originally posted by: Cleaner
Attendance should be mandatory in college. Also most college degree programs are not nearly tough enough. Its all a big business now, volume sales. Get as many in as possible and make them stay as long as possible. There is just a certain percentage of the population that is just not cut out to be in college. The world will always need construction workers, janitors, and such. Not trying to sound demeaning just realistic.
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I agree that college should be made much harder, at least in a lot of places. I go to Furman University and our classes are killer, much harder than anything you would expect to see in high school, which is exactly how it should be. But about 80% of my high school friends went to the University of South Carolina and have like A's or high B's and skip almost all their classes. The reason why? You go to take a chemistry test and the first question is something along the line of Which one of these is a gas at room temperature? A) Banana B) Car C) Helium D) Iron. And I promise that is not an exageration of the easiness of the types of questions either, in fact that is almost a direct quote from the test my friend told me about.

I seriously do not see how it is fair for my friends to make A's in chemistry without showing up to class and only having took a semester in high school where I had to struggle to make a B in my econ class cause the professor was so damn hard, and I mean I had 2 years of econ and made a five on the AP Macro test. F'ing insane...
 
In my EE120A class, the first time I went to class was the midterm; guess I was lucky I showed up. Still got a B on it. I guess comp architecture came naturally to me...
 
ahhh reminds me of the college days. We had an final exam at 9am, but my friend never showed up to it. So we get done and a group of us are walking back to the dorms when we see him walking out of the dorms happy go lucky with the subject's book in his hand. Turns out he thought it was at noon and he was just leaving to get in some last minute studying. So he looks at us and is like "what the sh1t" why are you guys all together, realizing his worst nightmare may have come true. I'll never forget the expression on his face. He then runs across campus to get to the exam room. The prof was a total b so I was surprised he actually got to take the exam with just 10 or so points off.

I still have nightmares that I am in school and go to class and there is a test I know nothing about even though I'm not even in school.
 
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