Probably dating myself a bit here, but I skipped about three weeks of class playing Civilization. I played 21 hours a day, slept for two then went to the cafeteria to eat for an hour straight. (Oh for the days when my back could handle 22 hours sitting in a crappy dorm chair in front of a computer. ) Also skipped 4 days of classes when a group of us decided to set an unnoficial Guinness record by playing hearts for 85 hours straight. I missed an entire class-semester once because it was scheduled opposite Animaniacs so I never went. I had to run back home and get my ID to prove who I was to take the final. It was just Rocks for Jocks(Geology 101 a rediculusly easy class used to fill distribution and was entirely graded on the joke of a final).
I skipped a class one time cos I wanted to see what a spider would do with a hapless fly that landed in its web.
FYI he didnt do anything. So I went and had a few beers.
Virginia has a strange thing about snow. They either don’t get enough of it or they’ve never figured out how to deal with it. At any rate, it was not impossible to have classes cancelled if it snowed.
My roomate for a couple of years was pretty nutty - if the forecast was for snow he would convince us that, this time, school would be closed tomorrow, he was sure of it! So, we’d all stay up, waiting for the snow, passing the time with beer and late night television.
Next thing you know, it’s 4 in the morning, we got like half an inch of snow, and classes are definately not cancelled. So we’d just skip to spite the snow gods or something.
I once skipped class because i was watching a rerun of Magnum PI, and i didnt want to leave before it was over.
Now that i think about it, maybe i was just looking for a reason not to go.
Reading these other posts makes me realize again how dorky I am. (“Guess what, Mom! I still have a 4.0! Yup, all A’s! Yeah, I know, I work hard!”)
Mostly I skip classes because I need to study for other classes. Since I work on campus, I’m there 8-5 nearly every day - no excuses of sleeping in here. But if I need to prepare for a class, I’ll skip another one to study for the first. Vicious cycle, I tell you.
But I also skip worthless classes. You know, the Gen-Eds. Last semester I took a computer class that everyone is required to take, and it was my very last class of the day (with no work afterwards). The first week we learned the difference between hardware and software. I went maybe 50% of the time, had an A in the weeks leading up to the final, learned I was exempt from the final, and just stopped going for good.