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closeupready

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37. You'd be surprised -
Thu Jan 3, 2013, 04:34 PM
Jan 2013

I knew someone who attended classes at a college for free, all because the professor knew the individual, knew what an eager student he was, and enjoyed having appreciative students like him in class.

Not suggesting that this is commonplace, and I doubt you could do it at Harvard, but pointing it out to say, professors enjoy human respect just like their students do. But somehow, many students today think they have no time for classes while attending college.

LOL. I feel ya, man. Ask me all about skipped classes and failing grades TwilightGardener Jan 2013 #1
We made a deal with my daughter when she went off to college nykym Jan 2013 #5
He's going to have to pay us back. TwilightGardener Jan 2013 #7
well, you can't really force him to pay you back. Liberal_in_LA Jan 2013 #10
Well, he knows he needs to make it up, somehow. TwilightGardener Jan 2013 #21
Not if those loans are in your name. Kiss it goodbye. Care Acutely Jan 2013 #35
Lots of students today prefer text messages to text books malaise Jan 2013 #14
Yep. Painful is the word. TwilightGardener Jan 2013 #18
I had the same problem. boston bean Jan 2013 #19
They get that taste of freedom--mom and dad hours away! No one cares TwilightGardener Jan 2013 #24
had the same issues just this first semester, add in some partying.... boston bean Jan 2013 #26
You know a year or two of living at home and going to a Community College Drahthaardogs Jan 2013 #33
Yes, good idea--and we are looking into that. TwilightGardener Jan 2013 #38
We are constantly getting ragged on about our daughter still living at home woodsprite Jan 2013 #39
in my experience, underattendance is a sign of a poor lecturer. unblock Jan 2013 #2
There ya go. kentauros Jan 2013 #20
No, that doesn't undo the genuine mea culpa in his statement. Bucky Jan 2013 #25
I still interpret it the way I did. kentauros Jan 2013 #32
This guy has an ego problem. Odin2005 Jan 2013 #3
Agree. If you have to go there, you aren't anyone. Ikonoklast Jan 2013 #8
Excuse me? NJCher Jan 2013 #11
Right, because anyone can be a university professor. closeupready Jan 2013 #17
It reminds me of that JC Watts incident at the Tulsa Airport a few years back. Bucky Jan 2013 #27
it ALWAYS amazes me how full the room is whenever I give an exam.... mike_c Jan 2013 #4
I worked my way through my undergrad education. MADem Jan 2013 #31
Eight years of college and i missed three classes. Coyotl Jan 2013 #6
I rarely missed classes also. Returned to college as an adult - watched how the young Liberal_in_LA Jan 2013 #9
I always went to class, unless I was sick. Manifestor_of_Light Jan 2013 #12
Foreign language classes are skills classes Lydia Leftcoast Jan 2013 #13
That reminds me of a joke. Recovered Repug Jan 2013 #15
Well, as he has witnessed, young students know everthing. closeupready Jan 2013 #16
wow - we would be dropped if we missed too many classes - Happened to me in 1979 and sammytko Jan 2013 #22
If he only could've boiled it down to 140 characters & Twittered it out to them... Bucky Jan 2013 #23
A bad professor can lose a good class ... Straw Man Jan 2013 #28
He's also the world's most esteemed collector of anime Capt. Obvious Jan 2013 #29
Common problem: Too many people don't know the difference between "could" and "did". nt patrice Jan 2013 #30
Hey, I'd be happy to attend on their dime! Scootaloo Jan 2013 #34
You'd be surprised - closeupready Jan 2013 #37
I have graduate students who miss two meetings of a class from time to time alcibiades_mystery Jan 2013 #36
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