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Originally posted by sigma:
On a side note, I swear that's a negative correlation between a college course with an Attendance policy and the quality of your education in that course.
If you see dropping grades due to attendance on the syllabus, chances are you've got a [censored] professor. They know that, without it, their class would be insultingly deserted. And the hard professors know that, without coming to their class, you're probably not going to pass anyways.
I agree with you on this, my econ professor has his classes packed every class. He also has no attendance policy, his motto verbatim "Its your money do what the hell you want with it".
OOO!! the other awesome classes are the ones where your teachers dont know anything about the subject. Like my introduction to technology class where the teacher couldnt use a computer (no experience with it). That class spiraled into a study off african american history and slavery (it boggles the mind). OR! my information technology class where the guy flat out said I dont know anything about this topic, so im just going to post the Powerpoint slides online.... but you all still have to come to class and ill lock your keyboards so you cant surf the net while you're here.
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Originally posted by sigma:
I had to go to school an entire extra semester to retake classes that I "Failed" due to attendance even though I had an "A" and often even the highest, grade in the entire class.
If I had a dime for every time I've contemplated letting my grade drop from missing class due to an attedance policy (99% of the outcomes would be going from a high A to a C or D), but realistically, choosing that path never made sense since 1. I don't want a low grade 2. Failing the course would only mean having go through the same process again.
I could pass 90% of the courses I've taken in college by missing every day except those for exams. Instead, I get to waste my time 3 days out of the week. Welcome to the real world, eh? My response: The real world sucks.
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MMM that's lovely. Glad I took my gen eds at a CC.
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Originally posted by Antiramie:
Originally posted by sigma:
I had to go to school an entire extra semester to retake classes that I "Failed" due to attendance even though I had an "A" and often even the highest, grade in the entire class.
If I had a dime for every time I've contemplated letting my grade drop from missing class due to an attedance policy (99% of the outcomes would be going from a high A to a C or D), but realistically, choosing that path never made sense since 1. I don't want a low grade 2. Failing the course would only mean having go through the same process again.
I wish in my school that it would have just 'dropped' instead of being a flat-out fail. If the teachers at my school had a policy, there was no lowering of the grade. It was a flat-out "F" after as few as 3 absences.
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My first year of college I had no less than 3 Romanian Math lecturers. They all had the most strongest accents and just went like the clappers through their lectures so you had to take notes SUPER-fast or you were screwed, and if you asked a question they were stumped. Sure they could speak english, but their understanding of it was another thing. The funniest thing was my math lecturer we had in tutorial - she was trapped in the 80's like some bad Russian attempt at being hip and cool. She had some horrid orange/red dyed hai, wore WAAAAAYYYY to tight t-shirts (she had HUGE tits) and she wore denim mini-skirts with huge red, pink or white leather belts.  We would laugh our ass off during class. She was like a train-wreck, you just couldn't look away, especially at those jubblys. Her saving grace was that she was an awesome help with understanding the math - and she gave us unwanted-wood in the process. LOL
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Where do you go to school? Here at Miami we evaluate professors in every class twice a semester. I have trashed professore before because they cancelled classes too much or didn't know their material well enough to answer students' questions. I would never trash a professor because he/she told me I was required to come to class.
Miami has a policy stated in our student handbook that states, "You are expected to attend all classes for which you are registered."
If your University has a similar policy, which it probably does, then going to anyone and complaining that you don't think going to class should be a requirement, regardless of your reasoning will get you nowhere positive.
You have two options:
1)Complain that her lessons are ineffective because they are just repeats of the book, or that she doesn't know the material or something along those lines.
2)Don't read anymore, learn from the class not the book. It saves you reading time and you still learn the stuff (reading time=class time) Plus since you'll need to go to the class, you won't have to worry about her attendance policy.
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I go to eastern and we also have those evaluations but those dont really mean anything. They are also done at the end of the semester, so by then its too late!
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I'm not seeing the big deal. The professor makes you attend every class, so what? If I don't show up to work, I get fired. Hmmm, welcome to reality. I'm a full time college student on top of my full time work schedule, so I speak from experience. You're almost done with school, you've got a breeze of a class, and you're complaining about it? College doesn't prepare you at all for what you're going to get into, so don't take crappy lectures to heart. Just enjoy the fact that you'll have that little piece of paper when you're all done, that makes you worth more than the guy that didn't pay that tuition.
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Originally posted by ...:
ROFLMAO!!!
Thats hardly a reportable offence. Welcome to higher education and just be happy the prof speak english.
I agree, college professors really arent the involved anymore, the more expensive the college, the less instruction you are going to get... yes I know that probably isnt true... but most of my friends in college have said to me that they got way better instruction going to Delta for summer classes then they ever did in their classes during the regular school year. My brother went to CMU for computer sciences and took some math and history classes over the summer, and he said the very same thing to me.
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If I don't show up to work, I get fired. Hmmm, welcome to reality.
You are paid to come to work. If you paid your employer to be there in the morning at 8, would you necessarily show up every single day?
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