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

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Originally posted by: NarcoticHobo
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...
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Ah, yay, another Furman person. Enjoy the lake and the ducks while you can... And take Golf--the best 0 credit hour class that you'll ever have.

On a side note, I just let a student make up a test, and I'm still wondering whether or not I should have allowed that one. The thought of having him/her fail the entire class because of one day was a little too much--but still, allowing people the chance to make it up isn't fair to the others who took it on time.

And as far as attendence goes--here's my proposal. You can miss as many classes as you want, as long as you have an "A" average in the class. You fall below that, though, and you start getting docked after the nth (3-5) absences.
 
Originally posted by: ShOcKwAvE827
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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That happened to me once while I was finishing up grad work, having zero classes that semester. I must have half-woken up 3-4 times, as I got near the surface and realized that 1) I actually knew the material, 2) I had finished that particular class in a prior semester, and 3) I didn't even have any classes! I think I fully sat up, called myself an idiot, and went back to sleep for good.

The thing is that I had usually been well-prepared and had never missed a test.
 
My variation on the dream is that I'm walking around campus when I suddenly realize on the day of the final exam that I have been signed up all semester for a class that I didn't even know I had signed up for, much less attended.
 
Why couldn't you have just taken the test any way and try your best? Sometimes getting a bad grade is a good lesson in life. And if you had done well on it anyway, you would have something to brag about -- "Hey, I got an A on that test and I didn't even study for it!"
 
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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nice!
 
I never remember when my tests are, and I never study for them. I tend to do better when I don't study as I have pretty good memory retention. Hope you study well. I guess your prof must think you're cute 🙂
 
Originally posted by: Cleaner
Attendance should be mandatory in college. Also most college degree programs are not nearly tough enough.
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Tougher perhaps, but mandatory attendance isn't a good idea. Having it NOT be mandatory rewards those with the self-control to attend all their classes.
 
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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Nothing that I pay for such as college will I ever be required to attend. If I know the material already and have to take the class because something won't transfer or for retarded gen ed requirements, I won't be at that class other than test time.
 
Your professor gave you a make-up test? That's really generous of him. What excuse did you give him for missing the test in the first place?
 
I always have that nightmare everyone now and then. A surprise final/research paper due which in my dream I procastinated and waited until the day of the exam/paper... always the same dream...
 
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