# I skipped class today for no reason... **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 9, 2003, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-skipped-class-today-for-no-reason/200532 "2003-09-09T14:44:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![pizzabrat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e9c0ed/32.png) [@pizzabrat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pizzabrat)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2003, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-skipped-class-today-for-no-reason/200532/1 "2003-09-09T14:44:52Z")
…and I feel like such a loser. Now I have until 12:30 EST (when the class would have ended) to do something hyper-productive in order to justify skipping or else I’ll feel lazy and worthless! It’s the challenge of the day! ---
**Author:** ![Garfield226](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Garfield226](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Garfield226)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2003, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-skipped-class-today-for-no-reason/200532/2 "2003-09-09T15:14:01Z")
Heh. I skipped class too. My only class of the day (except choir). My excuse is that…umm…I woke up late? Not really too late to go…Hmm…we weren’t going to be doing anything today anyway? I hope, at least…there wasn’t anything on the schedule… It’s a lecture, so I won’t be missed or anything. And I AM doing productive things. I’m cleaning my room and doing laundry and trying to land a job. ---
**Author:** ![Lsura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2003, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-skipped-class-today-for-no-reason/200532/3 "2003-09-09T16:03:05Z")
I once skipped class to go candlepin bowling with a friend. But I don’t skip classes anymore…since mine only meet once a week, if I miss one, I’m missing a huge amount of stuff. But being productive just because you skipped class? Not worth it to me. You should be a slug and laze around in your pajamas as long as possible, and maybe have some chocolate to go with it. ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Ashtar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ea924/32.png) [@Lord\_Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Ashtar)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2003, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-skipped-class-today-for-no-reason/200532/4 "2003-09-09T16:53:03Z")
I suggest you go back to sleep. I know I would. ---
**Author:** ![slortar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@slortar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slortar)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2003, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-skipped-class-today-for-no-reason/200532/5 "2003-09-09T17:06:24Z")
I suggest you get all your skipping done while you’re an undergrad, while you still can. Being able to conveniently skip was something I really missed when I was in grad school. In grad school, the profs would take it pretty personally, too… ---
**Author:** ![Podkayne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@Podkayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Podkayne)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2003, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-skipped-class-today-for-no-reason/200532/6 "2003-09-09T17:50:14Z")
I was the opposite, **slotar**. I never _dreamed_ of skipping class when I was an undergrad, but grad school kicked my ass and kicked it hard. I skipped classes to finish homework for other classes, to write papers for other classes, to grade papers for classes I was TAing, to sleep under my desk because I’d been up all night doing homework, writing papers, or grading papers . . . Most of my professors were pretty relaxed about it. Or at least, I never got yelled at. At worst, they sometimes asked why I wasn’t there, and listened more or less sympathetically to my excuse. Then again, I was careful to spread it around, so it wasn’t like I was constantly skipping one person’s class. ---
**Author:** ![Podkayne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@Podkayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Podkayne)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2003, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-skipped-class-today-for-no-reason/200532/7 "2003-09-09T17:56:01Z")
I was the opposite, **slotar**. I never _dreamed_ of skipping class when I was an undergrad, but grad school kicked my ass and kicked it hard. I skipped classes to finish homework for other classes, to write papers for other classes, to grade papers for classes I was TAing, to sleep under my desk because I’d been up all night doing homework, writing papers, or grading papers . . . Most of my professors were pretty relaxed about it. Or at least, I never got yelled at. At worst, they sometimes asked why I wasn’t there, and listened more or less sympathetically to my excuse. Then again, I was careful to spread it around, so it wasn’t like I was constantly skipping one person’s class. ---
**Author:** ![Doomtrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/0ea827/32.png) [@Doomtrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doomtrain)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2003, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-skipped-class-today-for-no-reason/200532/8 "2003-09-09T18:25:13Z")
I skipped class today cause I hurt my knee running for the train and don’t feel like traipsing all over campus on a gimp knee. But I only have one class today, so no big loss. ---
**Author:** ![even\_sven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dfb087/32.png) [@even\_sven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/even_sven)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2003, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-skipped-class-today-for-no-reason/200532/9 "2003-09-09T19:40:42Z")
I wish I was still in class so I could skip it to lay around in my PJs and play computer games all day. It’s just not the same when you’re graduated and unemployed… ---
**Author:** ![Algorithm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/algorithm/32/12204_2.png) [@Algorithm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Algorithm)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2003, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-skipped-class-today-for-no-reason/200532/10 "2003-09-09T22:21:09Z")
Skipping class is the best invention ever. Sometimes, when I stayed up all night playing computer games and had several classes the next day, I’d go to the first one and sleep through it, and then use my sleepiness as justification to skip my remaining classes. Then I’d go home and play more computer games. ---
**Author:** ![emmaliminal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7bcc69/32.png) [@emmaliminal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/emmaliminal)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2003, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-skipped-class-today-for-no-reason/200532/11 "2003-09-09T22:27:03Z")
As a former college instructor, I would like to inform you all that you will be going to hell for skipping class. Carry on. ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2003, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-skipped-class-today-for-no-reason/200532/12 "2003-09-09T22:35:03Z")
As a current teacher, I would like to inform you that you will find it harder to pass exams by skipping class. “Would you like fries with that?” :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Doomtrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/0ea827/32.png) [@Doomtrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doomtrain)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2003, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-skipped-class-today-for-no-reason/200532/13 "2003-09-09T22:57:01Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by glee \* > \*\*As a current teacher, I would like to inform you that you will find it harder to pass exams by skipping class. > > “Would you like fries with that?” :eek: \*\* Not always true. I had a class I skipped three weeks of at one point and missed at least one day of it a week. And I took the final drunk. Final result? A. I did better in that class than I did the classes I attended. And I’m an English major, that’s going to happen anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Daowajan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3bc359/32.png) [@Daowajan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daowajan)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2003, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-skipped-class-today-for-no-reason/200532/14 "2003-09-09T23:41:18Z")
I didn’t skip intentionally today, but I realized at 3 PM that my English class was not at 3:30 like I’d thought, but at 2:30. And it ends at 3:45, and is about a 30-minute walk from my house, on top of a BIG STEEP HILL. I really hate missing class, especially English class, especially for no good reason, so I jumped on my bike and hauled ass. I still feel really stupid, though. [/semi-thread hijack containing rant not good enough for its own thread] ---
**Author:** ![Nocturne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/9fc348/32.png) [@Nocturne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nocturne)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2003, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-skipped-class-today-for-no-reason/200532/15 "2003-09-09T23:59:32Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by glee_ > > As a current teacher, I would like to inform you that you will find it harder to pass exams by skipping class. Mmm. Not necessarily. Last semester I skipped 4/5s of my Honors History class and came out with an A. I also skipped most of my Calculus classes, and ended up with a B. I skipped my first three classes today because I was throwing up my dinner. But I made it to the last two. And I’ve done all my homework for tomorrow already. ---
**Author:** ![mnemosyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@mnemosyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mnemosyne)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2003, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-skipped-class-today-for-no-reason/200532/16 "2003-09-10T02:53:02Z")
I am not sure whether I will be skipping a lot this semester…all my lectures are on Mon-Wed-Fri, with NOTHING on Tuesdays and Lab Thurs afternoons only 6 weeks out of the semester. So either the slow Tues/Thurs will make me really bored and unmotivated or they will make me justify going to class because I can always sleep in the next day 🙂 I was late to one class on Monday, though, but it wasn’t entirely my fault. I was selling lab coats for the chem department/club and the person who was supposed to fill in for me was late because his class ran late. But it was only 5 minutes, and since I already knew the profs name, I don’t think it was a big deal that I missed watching him write it on the blackboard! ---
**Author:** ![Doomtrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/0ea827/32.png) [@Doomtrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doomtrain)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2003, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-skipped-class-today-for-no-reason/200532/17 "2003-09-10T03:30:40Z")
While we’re on the subject, I’ve found the classes with attendance requirements are the ones I miss most, cause I go “Well, hell, if I can miss five classes, it’d sure be a shame not to!” ---
**Author:** ![seal\_cleaner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e274bd/32.png) [@seal\_cleaner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/seal_cleaner)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2003, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-skipped-class-today-for-no-reason/200532/18 "2003-09-10T19:34:19Z")
I had one history course that had a SATURDAY MORNING class. I usually just plain forgot it. On my midterm paper (B-), the professor had wrote: “Good effort, although I question your wisdom in neglecting our Saturday meetings.” ---
**Author:** ![JeffB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jeffb/32/188_2.png) [@JeffB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JeffB)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2003, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-skipped-class-today-for-no-reason/200532/19 "2003-09-10T19:39:14Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Algorithm \* > Skipping class is the best invention ever. Skipping work is much better. ---
**Author:** ![Phlosphr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Phlosphr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phlosphr)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2003, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-skipped-class-today-for-no-reason/200532/20 "2003-09-10T19:57:15Z")
> [@](#): > > As a current teacher, I would like to inform you that you will find it harder to pass exams by skipping class. > > “Would you like fries with that?” As an instructor I must say this may have to be used again for chronic skippers. Those of you who go to big schools with big classes enjoy. My largest class this semester is 49 this semester, so I know it when someone skips. If you want to follow an interesting tale, do a SDMB search for “marijuana in clas” I had a student last year who smoked all the time, and he’d come to my class wreaking like it. I do not mind if students smoke [sub] i condone a certain recreational usage for them even[/sub] But skipping class, coming in a half hour late because your baked just doesn’t sit well with me. Those who think we don’t notice…we do! :eek: [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-skipped-class-today-for-no-reason/200532.md?page=2)