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TwilightGardener

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1. LOL. I feel ya, man. Ask me all about skipped classes and failing grades

Thu Jan 3, 2013, 02:20 PM

Jan 2013

and wasted tuition money. I'm living it with my kid, who thought his time would be better spent sleeping in his dorm room and playing XBox.

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Don't You Know Who I Am? - Professor to students who missed his lecture [View all] Liberal_in_LA Jan 2013 OP

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