Everytime I encounter a praying mantis, it’s like this. I see them, them see me. I am like “oh cool a mantis.” It gets all defensive, raising those fucking scythe arms. I am like “whoa bud chill” and then it flies at my face, I smack it out of the air and am like “now why’d you have to go an do that for? Now you’re fucked up.”
Hey, the were honest. I’d let it fly
And scare the poor student even more???
This may have worked. I once excused a student for being late because the geese were being aggressive.
who cares about collage attendance?
in my uni no one cared, of you’re late, it’s just a bit rude, of you don’t show up, no one cares.
what matters are the graded assignments and exams. if a student aces those but never stepped in a lecture hall, does that matter?
This was for a lab I was teaching, so they had to be there in person. It was a 3 hour block, so I wouldn’t have even asked why they were late. I only even remember 5+ years later because they came rushing in with an explanation and I thought it was hilarious.
One of my biggest pet peeves in college was professors who took attendance. Bitch, I’m paying you to be here, if I don’t want to come to class, that’s on me. It was usually when they knew that most people could skip every class and still pass.
I even once had a class in a lecture hall with at least 100 students, where the teacher took attendance using some stupid “clicker” thing that we had to buy at the school bookstore. Ridiculous. Pisses me off just thinking about it.
While it’s good that you are disciplined enough that you can succeed without it, many students benefit greatly from a rigid structure more in line with the educational environment they experienced up to that point. After freshman year, attendance requirements are usually greatly relaxed since people have gotten into the swing of things (like not having to ask to to go to the bathroom anymore, god what even is the public school system). Personally I don’t care if you show up or not, you’ll learn something important either way and if someone uninterested isn’t there it means I have more time for the other students.
Also I can 100% promise that clicker thing was a contractual obligation from the publisher and not the instructor’s idea. Those things are fuckin’ awful to support on the instructor’s side, and goddamn Pearson managed to tie using their shitfucking software (including those goddamn clickers) to the state and federal grants unis rely on for funding. Fuck pearson.
Oh no, I skipped class all of the time lol I was a terrible student
This was a long time ago, and I think the clickers were like brand new. The professor was really into trying to make it work. They even tried to use them to quiz us during class. It was a living nightmare.
If you can pass my class without attending lecture, why wouldn’t you just ask to test out of the class???
I scream, into the uncaring void.Because following at home and teaching yourself the material throughout the semester is different from knowing it all already.
Okay setting aside that I’ve never ever seen someone try that and actually succeed, why would someone shell out for a college lecture if they’re going to do that anyways? My syllabus is good, but it’s not all that useful for independent study time. (You also can’t replicate lab or seminar time on your own, so I’m just not sure what you’re basing this on.)
Some classes don’t require labs. A handful of people that I’ve seen will only show up for quizzes and exams and still pass the class. Why they do it? No clue.
In particular, the classes I’ve seen this happen usually provide a semester-long list of what textbook chapters will be covered in which weeks. If the textbook is thorough enough and the course adheres to the text, it’s doable.
You know, I’ve had students attempt this every quarter and I’ve still never seen it actually work. It might be a reflection of how teaching has had to shift as a result of the changes brought on by AI + the pandemic, though. I started professing only a little bit before then, so I never really saw the era where you could get away with such strict adherence to the textbook.
Hi, I have been to lectures fewer than 10 times throughout my entire master’s. No AI, no textbooks, just lecture slides and doing the (ungraded) weekly assignments.
It probably wasn’t a smart idea (incl. for my social life), but it also wasn’t hard to do.
I accepted “I’m sorry, it was just too nice a day to spend it sitting in a basement with no windows” once because man, they had a point.
Immediate failure for not being academia levels of brain-broken. You’ll sit in your cube and like it!
i’m not a teacher, but if i was i’d excuse it just because they took the effort to compose such a crazy story. probably learned more than i’d have taught them that day a anyway
Oh, the funniest part of this to me was how certain I was it was true. I used to have to find alternate routes into the building all the time because of the geese. I think they nested in the bushes near all the doors. If it wasn’t, it was a very good lie and I appreciated the effort anyway.
If the class was on Kafka I’d give them top marks
as an etymologyst, it really bugs me when i get n to my work
I’m newly a teacher (of adults), and I accept literally any excuse anyone gives me. I suspect that I’ll change that as time goes on, but I don’t even really get excuses.
I’ll generally accept it if you send any excuse prior to the lecture unless it’s becoming a habit - in those rare cases I’ll happily work with them to try and figure out a solution. 80% of the time it’s family medical appointments or childcare scheduling issues (and my gosh I am so happy to accommodate people dealing with that) and the rare cases it’s not we can usually find a way to make up for what they’ve missed. I’ve got a couple colleagues that only accept excuses with a doctor’s note, and the best thing I can say about them is that they’re
retiring soonincredibly passionate about teaching.(none of this applies to freshman courses, though. We’ve learned that being really strict about attendance for freshman year boosts passing rates by like 30%, it’s just crazy.)
Damn cobra chickens getting all hissy and angry just because I don’t have bread for them. Entitled bastards.
He’s so high he doesn’t realize that the bug blocking his door is the professor
It’s Professor Hanks
https://sib.illinois.edu/departments/entomology/directory/faculty
Fun fact: he’s in fact Tom Hanks’ brother
I thought you were joking
Why does she have wings!?
Redbull
makes awful whirring noise
That would be because of the caffeine
There’s no bug. But there’s a mirror and that student has turned into a bug.
Kafkaesque
OP is Gregor Samsa
That time I was reincarnated as a bug and got spooked by my own reflection.
modern manga titles be like
The light novel would be titled “That time I was reincarnated as a bug and got spooked by my own reflection, only to miss a class and almost not get together with the love of my life (another bug) by not passing”
the amount of text in the mangas has remained relatively consistent. while the title wordcount has been growing out of control.
it is a matter of time before the titles themselves become while novels, followed by about 70 black and white manga pages.
Totally Kafkaesque.
Kafkaesque as shit
Respectfully, I am in tears,
My brain at random
Might make this my work signature tbh
Last time i’ve read this it hadn’t had that huge white spacing.
I mean, I’m still marking you absent. But you’re definitely getting an A for creative effort!
Even sending me a note that you’re going to be late is more consideration than I usually get, but I’ve got enough on-spectrum students that I can very much see this being a legit scenario (though I teach CS so it’s a little heavy on the neurodivergent representation). IDK, if they’re an otherwise decent student I might let this slide (once), though almost entirely for the novelty of someone actually letting me know they’re running late.
The specific wording of the note is a direct reference to Kafka’s metamorphosis! So depending on the class and year, teacher should be proud.
I really really should have noticed that, thank you that makes this so much better.
When I move
You move
just like that
Hell yeah hey dj bring that back
I expect more from you, Spruce.
I’ll see you after class ;)
Sir, this is a Wendy’s
ma’am, this is the last time i’m gonna tell you to stop that before i call Costco security.
Sir this is not a bug, it’s a hot dog
If one more motherfucker walks in and says this shit in target I’m gonna lose it
I’ll allow it
I very much enjoy this reading of this post:
Did nobody get the reference or is everybody in on the joke?
You have some bug jousting reference you wanna let the class in on?
I’d like to think they are Gregor Samsa in denial and about to come to the conclusion that they are the bug. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Metamorphosis
