All of my classes have an attendance policy. One of those classes, if you miss more than four days, you drop a letter grade instantly. We've had less than four assignments in that class and she does not do lectures. I spend much of the class on 4-ch.
Lets not. High school sucks. College sucks. Work sucks. Deal with it.
I was thinking of going on 4-ch during class but forgot about it xD
At my college, if you miss 3 days you drop a letter grade, and 4 your fail the class. Them's the breaks. It's kind of hard to miss that many considering you only have the class once a week anyway. The same rule goes for late assignments.
at my high school, everyone competes for everything, therefore, everyones an asshole, to themselves and each other
Sounds sort of like one of my previous CC classes. The letter grade part makes sense though, as you probably don't have many classes total with one per week (less than 18?).
I don't have to attend anything, but I do in most courses because they're interesting. My college rocks!
College sucks for me right now because I'm having to pull down a lot of hours to graduate on time. The classes are mostly interesting, but 21 hours is a bit much... :(
A day or a week? I'm pretty much have to pull down a lot of hours, too, to graduate. It all ends in about 9 weeks or so, but its still a lot of time and energy I'd rather not spend on a class that won't be of any use to me in the "real world".
in my physics class, the professor would pass around an attendance sheet and you just fill in your initials for that day. Before he wouldn't check it until the week was over, so I would just go in on Fridays and fill in my initials for the week. But now he has changed it so I have to go.
High school sucks... just making kids jump through hoops...
The only thing it teaches students is how to shut up and follow the curriculum blindly, ignoring any questions that come to mind.
You might witness a bit of material, but chances are you won't remember it in 2+ years unless you were highly fascinated.
>>5 My college was just like that. Once-per-week classes (art) were like 3-4 hours, but there were a few classes (academic) you took twice a week that were 1.5 hours each day.
I failed a class because ONE teacher decided to make her absence allowance a day less than EVERY OTHER TEACHER IN THE ENTIRE SCHOOL.
>>13
lol
My Japanese class uses an unusual system to check attendance. We have to write a few sentences in Japanese then turn them in to be checked. If they're 100% correct, they have no red ink on them at all.
I think you can figure out what I'm doing.
I really hate it when peopl ewhine about attendance policies, why don't you just go to your fucking classes? You paid for them after all.
>>17
Because they're stupid as hell. I'm not paying to learn in these classes, I'm paying to get a fucking degree. You'd think if you paid for it you wouldn't have to deal with this shit.
>>18
yeah because getting a degree should involve no effort on your part besides paying your tuition am i rite lolz
>>17
lol well I dropped out after one semester because the art classes were the most basic classes I have ever taken. They were teaching me stuff I learned in 9th grade art, so why the heck am I paying for it this time?
The answer is a bunch of people who have never drawn a picture in their life and suddenly deciding they want to go to art college, making the people who have been artists their entire lives wait for them to catch up ~o~ When I am in the same class as people who can't draw a cube in perspective, I get the idea my money is not being used very efficiently.
>>20
not everyone remembers the stuff they learned in the 9th grade
>>21
I'm talking about art stuff like how two draw a circle.
>>20 That's why you've got to research the quality of art that's being produced at a school beforehand. Sometimes the studios and reputation will be misleading. You really don't know if the art program is attracting the right students until you go there.
>>23
You are very right. I didn't even research art colleges--I just applied to the closest one. And it turns out there wasn't a single class I was interested in taking :_(
It should depend on whether or not you now the material.
>>19
You're missing the point; I don't want to be in these classes because they're
A. totally unrelated to my majors -- that is, Japanese and Chinese, and I have Eng Comp 2 and Math Modeling.
B. The material is incredibly easy. I don't need to waste an hour + 1/2 in class listening to idiots ask questions for 90% of the time, unending and pointless reviews, then getting a quiz once every thirty eons.
C. Attendance policies are double jeopardy. If the class is challenging and you skip, you're already penalized by missing material. Why the fuck should you be punished again?!
Your idea that I just want a degree for paying tuition is retarded; you support people being rewarded (that is, not being punished) just for dragging their corpses in without regard to whether they did work or not. Thanks to these stupid-ass attendance policies and the people that instated and support them, the student who aces everything but doesn't show up to class is at the same level as the class idiot.
heh, well, look at me.
I started off taking classes at a community college 4 years ago during high school for high school and college credit. After I finished high school (with a perfect GPA!) I decided, heck, might as well spend the next year finishing up at this CC and then transfer into a 4-year as Uppergrad.
...hasn't happened yet. I had one a few more classes to take before I fulfilled the two years requirements for Computer Information Systems, only to notice that most of the colleges I was considering didn't really offer majors in that. After that my father pretty much convinced me that I would make more money majoring in Computer Science, which is pretty popular at most colleges, so I moved back in with my family to go to a CC near them that did offer Computer Science....unfortunatly though, I was missing two and a half years of math requirements, on top of a few other things.
Not to mention, I'm a lazy guy, so I would rather be messing around with computer applications in an office somewhere than staying up late working on a programming assignment with my deadline coming up. And although I was fantastic with math in high school, not having done it for a while had made me rusty, and I now get a headache from it.
...So, at least one more year until I can transfer to a 4 year, but that's life.
My future plan is to graduate college, save up enough money to buy a house, and then maybe invest enough in bonds so that I don't have to work much and can sit around being lazy.
It kinda sucks you have to work hard to be as lazy as you want to be, doesn't it?
Quit and become NEET/hikikomori. You can just sleep all day and browse the Internet all night.
>>30
That's what I've pretty much been doing this semester, anyway. :p
I have one real class two nights a week, and three online classes (the classes I need to take (aside from math) are running out pretty fast.)
Plus I have no job (I do freelance computer work + financial aid) and (like I mentioned) I now live with my parents again.
>>29
Indeed. :(
At one of my old high-schools, you didn't even have to attend the class. They wanted you to be responsible for your own future. It was sort of set-up like a college.
Of course, I wasn't responsible. I was like "AWESOME I DON'T HAVE TO ATTEND CLASSES HELLZ YEAH". Eventually I dropped out of that school.
Now I'm 18 and still haven't completed high-school. I still have a year and a half to go.
>>32
Too bad that, at least at my college, you DID have to attend the class. So that would be more like a set-up for failure.
I've got to take a test in a few minutes. If I do well enough, I won't have to take the final!
Wish me luck! （ ´∀｀)
How did it go?
also, good luck!
I'm kinda in (the beginnings of) the same situation, I just dropped from my high school and started taking classes at a CC for dual credit....
I'm pretty much in a similar situation to you. I've mangaged to get the bare minimum done, but I realize that I'm getting lazier. I do have one hell of a lot of free time now, though.
Not too bad I don't think, but not as good as I wanted. Our teacher, that bastard, put a pattern in the test answers - bbb, ccc, ddd, aaa, etc. Since he did this on the test before last, no one expected him to do it again. >:(
I'm not taking the final anway. Hell with an A!
>>40
That's a good idea, I'm doing something similar at a full university before graduating.
Yeah, lots of free time.... My classes are mostly in the evening, so I'm gonna be looking for a dayjob soon
>>44
Yeah, I'm looking myself. I've never had a job before, but my parents are starting to pull the rug out. :(
>>44
Haha, same, the money well's drying up.... I'm gonna try and find something to do with 'computer analysis', big money even if you're not certified, even more if you are. I might try to freelance, or just start getting used to my cubicle future.
Hell with it, it's a stupid assignment anyway.
I don't care if I don't get an A - I just want to GTFO this school.
Okay, I did the assignment after all.