<font color=skyblue>My Spanish 415 professor will not miss me, I am sure. For some reason, she has been giving me trouble anyway, so last night when I had a choice between doing the homework late at night (12am-1am) or not going to class and waiting until Tuesday to turn it in after having the weekend to work on it, I chose the latter.

I assume that everybody that has ever been to school has skipped a day for one reason or another.

The challenge is this...who has the most interesting story to tell as to why you skipped a class?

Also, do you feel worried when you skip...like will it hurt your final grade or something?</font>

You rebel you.

I skip Uni classes on a daily basis (simply out of disinterest/laziness/whatever); yet my grades are still in the cum laude region, so I'm not really worried.

<font color=skyblue>cum laude ???

Do I even want to know?</font>

cum laude = getting your degree with an average 8 or higher, on a 1-10 scale. I suppose for english gradesystems this would be a B+ or A?

<font color=skyblue>I think we have a traditional 4.0% grade system in US schools, with the occasional 5.0 in some. Those that achieve at least a 3.8% are considered something or other, but I do not remember what they're called.

4.0 = A
3.8 = (This and above get recognition in a four-point school)
3.5 = B+
3.0 = B
2.75 = (Minimum for teachers degrees in NC.)
2.5 = C+ (Cut off for most degrees I think)
2.0 = C

cum laude...I just thought he was being silly and spelling "loud" a funny way. Is that really what they call it?</font>

[ 11-17-2005, 10:27 AM: Message edited by: Larry_OHF ]

At my high school...

cum laude - 3.0 GPA
summa cum laude - 3.3 GPA
magna cum laude - 3.6 GPA

Or something like that.

I've skipped... the one that sticks in my mind the most at this point is one evening where I spent it with my girlfriend at the time... nuff said. I didn't make it to sleep until way, way late, and didn't make it to class the next day. At all.

My French professor (who is still a friend, many years later) asked where I was. I told him a friend had a problem, and I spent the evening and early morning consoling her... somewhat true :D

Fortunately, he never pressed for details ;)

I have tons of interesting skip stories. Skipping to drink beer and party. Skipping to "tune in and turn on" with friends. Skipping to go work a double shift waiting tables. Skipping to play video games for the 36th hour in a row. Skipping to play D&D. Skipping to watch Animaniacs. Skipping to hike. Skipping to fish. Skipping to swim and cliff dive. You name it.

Problem is my skipping at uni was directly reflected in my grades. I went to a small uni, and profs would know if you skipped -- and it mattered a great deal.

In law school I got over it, and was glad indeed.

Yes, it's "cum laude" and it's latin for "with praise" or "with distinction." If you get good grades, you can graduate cum laude, and if you get very good grades you get magna cum laude, and if you roxxors you get summa cum laude.

And it goes on your diploma and on your resume -- so it's a mark of distinction that follows you forever. Lucky for me. :D

[ 11-17-2005, 11:05 AM: Message edited by: Timber Loftis ]

I missed classes on occasion and graduated (BA) cum laude from my University, so I don't think it hurts too much unless you miss a LOT of classes and don't catch up on the material OR your prof takes off on your final grade for absences which a lot of them have taken to doing around here.

Guess we know what YOU'LL be doing this weekend, Larry! :D

I once skipped class three weeks in a row, i guess i totally didn't feel like going to school for a while. At school i had them thinking i was sick, and at home they believed i was at school, because i left home every morning at 8 AM with my bag full of schoolbooks and stuff. :D

I had my daily routines for as far as i can remember them, and the first thing i did was buy a newspaper at the station, and then go read it somewhere where i could buy me a cup of coffee, which was usually McDonalds. After that i just roamed around the city until it was 13.00. Then i went to the cinema and bought me a ticket for whatever movie started at 13.30. I actually saw the movie "Alligator" 7 times during those three weeks, but i couldn't care less. Then after the movie i took a bus home, and acted like i just came from school.

After the third week one of my classmates told me on the phone that one of our teachers was collecting money among the students to buy me something, for being sick so long and all, so the next day i went back to school, to prevent me from an embarrassing situation. [img]graemlins/hehe.gif[/img]

I skip class too ever now and then. The classes, which amounts to one per day, tend to be overwievs on the textbooks anyway and as long as you're actually study some while skipping class, it doesn't really matter.

Edit: As a matter of fact, I'm planning to skip class tomorrow. I think I'll do the laundry instead.

[ 11-17-2005, 02:18 PM: Message edited by: Stratos ]

Last term I missed one day per week. Sometimes monday, most often wednesday and sometimes thursday. And I'm looking forward to the second half of my year when I'll be free on fridays and wednesdays. Yay for physics!

Well Myself, Intrepid and Azeral have some VERY interesting stories about what we did at school when we weren't in class....

But I will wait to see if they want to share ;)

As for just me, on multiple occasions me and another friend skipped a few classes that we were bored with (generally maths and RE) and we would often ride home from school, in fact, one day I even put on my rollerblades before everyone had gone back into class and we just left....
We got back to my place and were pretty happy with our accomplishment. So we rang Intrepid and left a message asking him to call us (his phone was busy) about 20 mins later the phone rang, my friend picked it up and said "hello?" I was looking at him and waiting to see what Intrepid had to say, but then his face went white and he quickly said in some dodgy accent "I think you have the wrong number" and hung up...

Turns out it was our year co-ordinator, and she knew that we had left.....

To cut a long story short, we got caught and we ended up walking back to school and still having to go to RE :(

We also skipped another day of school to play backyard golf too, but on that day we also discovered how to use my dad's chainsaw..... Which also happened to be not too long after I had gotten a digital camera :D

You haven't lived life until you've skipped a class. :D

I skipped 1st period Typing for nearly an entire semester in 11th grade. I spent the time having coffee and pastry in a nearby cafe. I still suck at typing and never have been able to learn to do it without looking at the keyboard. If only they had let me transfer to a different class, I might have gone.

They didn't catch me for almost 6 months, until 6 weeks into the following semester!?

I've never skipped a class, yet my marks are still in the "piss poor" range.

I always skipped my upper level history classes. Well, except for first two weeks, exam days and major paper due days. So went to a total of about 40 hours of history classes over 4 years. Let's see, each class at two hours, twice a week, for four months, times four courses...oh I'd say I went to about 15% of the classes for my history requirements to graduate.

Why would I take so many history classes if I cared about it so little? Because all the interesting history classes were 200 level (ancient histories), while all the modern history (or the "kill me now, please" classes) were 300 level. I needed no 200 levels to graduate, but I think 8 300 levels, plus 400s. This was ironically the only way to get a full education in Japanese language, going roundabout under the guise of a different major, since my dipshit school did not and does not offer a Japanese language major. Otherwise, a different major would have left me no time for Japanese due to schedule conflicts.

Ironically, the one time my history prof (small school, same prof for all my histories!)did not believe I was sick, I had the flu. But I was on the way to Japanese class anyhow. I'd rather crawl on my hands and knees to a language class when it could kill me than stop watching Pinky and the Brain to go to history class. This might have had something to do with the fact that I could put an 'A' effort into a history paper and get a 'D', could put a 'C' effort into history and get a 'C', intentionally try to piss off the prof and get an 'A'! It happened, every time. Come to think of it, the more I showed up in class,the worse my grades got. The darnest thing is that my history prof actually liked me! Or was that pity? She was kind of haughty, even for a professor.

I used to skip philosophy quite a bit during the second half of a semester. Usually during the first 6 or 7 weeks all the topics necessary for the assignment were covered, then after that you would only need to know about one more topic to be able to do the take-home exam so if I couldn't be bothered to go, I wouldn't. It's kind of stupid, looking back, considering I took philosophy for pleasure and I didn't actually have anything 'better' to do. Although a lot of my philosophy lectures were at night, which was annoying. I never skipped classes where I couldn't get notes from anyone, like ancient history (which I also really enjoyed so wouldn't have skipped anyway).

I also skipped one class this semester when I knew what we were talking about would be boring and pointless. I would normally NEVER skip classes at this level because it's actually important for me to go and learn stuff about how to treat and assess clients considering I actually have said clients to treat and assess, but we were talking AGAIN about this stupid questionnaire that we're testing and have discussed in multiple classes before. The lecturer made the mistake of telling us the week before that that was what he had on the agenda for the next week - I think the class was fairly sparse that week.

[ 11-18-2005, 12:00 AM: Message edited by: Aelia Jusa ]

I've skipped so much this semester i already got dropped from class and had to get renstated into class and today i did'nt mean to skip but i fell asleep in my car on break between classes and missed my second class.

Maybe you should change your screen name from Blind_Prophet then, as if you were a Prophet surely you would have seen that coming :D

Well, I'm sure that's why he refers to himself as a blind prophet, no?

Ditto.
I skipped half a class a couple of times because I didn't want to do disection.

I didn't do well in school, I skipped about half of my classes before getting expelled in my final year, but I think the funniest time was when I got bored in a maths lesson and convinced the guy sat next to me to come to Scotland with me for a laugh (I live in Manchester). I don't think he actually thought I was serious, but we walked out of the lesson and went to the train station. Turned out there were no trains to Scotland anytime soon, so we went the other way, to Cornwall (actually further away than Scotland)... Anyway, we made it the whole way (without paying for ANY tickets, I might add) and got picked up by the police in Cornwall at around 7pm. My mother had given them my cellphone number and they'd made me tell them which station I was approaching... Though not before I'd lied to them about it and had a random train searched about thirty miles away from where I was! :D

My maths teacher actually got in a lot of trouble after this for not reporting us leaving class, because when she asked where we thought we were going I called back "Scotland!" and she didn't believe me. Silly woman!

[ 11-18-2005, 12:03 PM: Message edited by: Brayf ]

hmmm...to preface the comment...I have degrees in Computer Science and Math and have Secondary Teaching cerification in both (sadly enough, I'm not teaching) but I did miss an occasional class...only in ones that didnt' require you to be there as a part of the class, of course...my favorite situation was were I was dating the Girlfriend of the T.A. for my Calc II class - she was a nurses aid at the Health Center and would give me sick excuses to miss his class...looking back it was kind of a silly, potentially bad situation, but boy she was a lot of fun... [img]smile.gif[/img]

Later,

BK

Jeez, how do you get away with all this skipping? Maybe it's because I'm in high school, or maybe it's because my school is pretty smart about it, but there really is no way of skipping a class and not being caught.

Attendence is taken every class, and compared to other classes, so theres no way of skipping individual classes unless take the whole day. However, any absence that isn't called in gets you a call home, and if my parents were to say "What do you mean? He's at school!", then I'd be up a creek without a paddle [img]tongue.gif[/img]

The only way I could skip a day would be to feign sickness and then sneak out, but that's tough as well.

That's what it's like over here as well, but I've managed to skip a bit. It helps to have an older brother who can call you in sick for the afternoon or whatever. [img]tongue.gif[/img]

Well, once you're at Uni you're really on your own. You take responsibility of your own studies. The mandatory classes I have are few and far between, but I still attend most regular ones; they give a good indication on what they want you to know to pass the course.

Maybe you should change your screen name from Blind_Prophet then, as if you were a Prophet surely you would have seen that coming :D </font>[/QUOTE]LoL i wish i had seen it comin but it was not in the cards i guess lol

My uni course has lectures on 'the engineer in society'. All but the keenest students have skipped every one bar the first. I kinda feel sorry for the lecturer when, at the end of his rather empty looking lecture, 90% of the year arrive for structural mechanics. Still, he shouldn't be trying to teach us such bull.

I've never understood skipping. Education is precious, why waste it?

<font color=skyblue>In my first post, I mentioned that I skipped that hour to buy myself the weekend to work on a paper because I could not have it ready in time for class Thursday.

Besides, her style of education is not educating me and so she's just one barrier keeping me from obtaining a degree that I am already qualified to receive...but I have to go through certain trivial classes to get it.</font>

I know that, but I'm talking about the people who skip numerous days, just to go "hang out" or something.

<font color=skyblue>Oh yeah. Hey...I never did that. I felt bad about skipping that class, to tell the truth. I know that skipping in the classes that I attend (Spanish degree) can affect the final grade for the semester. Some teachers will even kick you out of class for missing more than 2 days on a twice/week class schedule. I was given 2 bonus points at the end of one semester by a professor because I was the only one not to miss any days at all that semester. Those two bonus points were added to the final exam. I said Boo-ya!</font>

I only skip when I can't stand my teacher any more. Why would I waste 80 minutes listening to him/her ramble on about something when I could learn it just as well on my own?