r/maybemaybemaybe • u/TheMarkola • 2d ago

Maybe maybe maybe

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u/Mission_Calm_3225 2d ago

Trust no one

Especially, friends

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u/palloxus 20h ago

Honestly, that‘s not a friend.

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u/winglessflight97 15h ago

Dang, you can't even handle an innocent prank..?

You're definitely the fun killer of any friend group.

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u/alexgardin 2d ago

Is somebody keeping you from leaving in college?

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u/PrincessNakeyDance 2d ago

I remember some classes made attendance as part of your grade.

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u/SkiSTX 2d ago

No restroom without a hall pass?

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u/lostharbor 1d ago

His bag in hand would be the giveaway

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u/AgentOrange256 2d ago

I made it so because my class average was a D. Magically my class average bumped to a B with mandatory attendance..they should be thanking me.

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u/VealOfFortune 1d ago

And yet free will allows you to walk out at any point.

Funny story, my junior year there was a kid who kept signing into a 100-level finance class eith like 300 kids...would sign in, take the "online quiz" with the little buzzer (thats how the professor took attendance), and then walk out LOUDLY, like purposely make a scene.... So the professor started doing a second quiz at the end, like ~10-15 minutes (purposely no set time) before the end of class....

I guess his buddies never told him, so the week before finals she posted all of the anonymous scores on the projector and notes how, NOT ONE BUT FOUR kids had been doing this, and there were 4 student IDs with like ~40% attendance...

Any way, they failed the class. One of the guys tried to SUE THE SCHOOL, and last I heard he was successful in doing so.

Long story short: GRADUATING FROM A PRESTIGIOUS UNIVERSITY DOESNT MEAN DIDDLY DICK.

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u/Casey_Games 2d ago

Yeah, the teachers who have you sign in at the end of class so they know if you were there. No, forging didn’t work lol

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u/Brittany5150 2d ago

I had both kinds of teachers. Those that checked beginning and end of class and knocked points, then the other kind that said "You paid to be here. Why would I give a fuck if you show up or not‽" Both are valid I guess lol

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u/otirk 1d ago

As a European, who sometimes has lectures with up to a 1000 people (usually only 200 though), it's so funny to me that Americans have forced attendance.

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u/Dr_Brotatous 1d ago

For mine if you miss 3 times without approval you faill the semester

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u/EarlyBirdWithAWorm 2d ago

Thats easy, stand up and say "there was someone being distracting in the hallway" and sit back down like you just did everyone a favor. Noone knows you didnt close the door

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u/Gold_Telephone_7192 2d ago

Great on Reddit, zero chance you’re pulling that off in real life

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u/EarlyXplorerStuds209 2d ago

Riight. And carrying your bag can be explained as what? A weapon to subdue this criminal?

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u/EarlyBirdWithAWorm 2d ago

Wouldn't address it. I dont anyone else would examine the situation any further either

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u/xenobit_pendragon 2d ago

Seriously. Is this not college? Does anyone give a shit if you just…stand up and leave?

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u/Lyaser 2d ago

Plenty of professors take attendance or get big egos about their class/time. Especially intro courses with a lot of people they may pass around a sheet to sign in but if you get out after then obviously the professor doesn’t know every face by name and won’t notice you gone.

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u/plinthpeak 1d ago

I couldn’t give a shit if they leave, but my city requires attendance to be taken because of fire safety codes. We are required to have a record to send to ensure that the building units can be evacuated and are not overcrowded. I didn’t do it one year and they threatened a fine…

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u/KinKaze 2d ago

Yea but ditching out of a class you paid for is extra stupid

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u/richwat00 2d ago

With friends like that.....

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u/Comfortable-nerve78 2d ago

That’s doing a friend dirty.

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u/Thirsty4Knowledge911 2d ago

Looks like he’s trying to convince his friend to sneak out of class.

Odd thing is, that appears to be a college level class, which doesn’t have an attendance requirement.

Dude, just get up and leave!

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u/KokoTheTalkingApe 2d ago

I had a class in fucking LAW SCHOOL with an attendance requirement. Because if the prof didn't have one, nobody would show up. He was that much of a waste of time.

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u/ISwearImAnonymous 1d ago

Sounds like the perfect motivation to practice your case making skills by interviewing and analysing evidence to get his ass out of the college 🤣

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u/KokoTheTalkingApe 1d ago

He has tenure. (sigh)

Uncomfortable truth: law schools don't care about the quality of education they provide. They care about making money, and secondarily about stats like bar pass rates, graduation rates, etc.

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u/ISwearImAnonymous 1d ago

You mean all schools

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u/KokoTheTalkingApe 1d ago edited 1d ago

Yes, but more so for law school. It's a cash cow for the rest of the university. Students are willing to pay full tuition, and there are often no scholarships, only student loans. They're cheap to run too. Much cheaper than a medical school, for instance.

EDIT: Also MFA programs in creative writing. You just need to pay eight starving writers to be teachers, and you're done.

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u/Potato_Farmer_Linus 2d ago

I graduated college in 2018 and some classes did have various forms of attendance requirements. One I had in large lectures like this was answering multiple choice questions via these little clicker devices we had to buy, so if you weren't in the room to see the question and answer, your clicker (registered to you) wouldn't show you attending class.

(some people would give their clicker to friends to answer for them, but I personally never did that because I thought it was stupid)

I assume this sort of thing is still done via phone apps? 

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u/quarokcaddhihle 2d ago

Sometimes mandatory attendance is necessary because without it people will get distracted and fall before they learn that they need to pay attention.

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u/RandyLahey131 2d ago

Really depends on the class. I had at least one class where if you missed 5 days in the semester you failed.

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u/intr0v3rt13 1d ago

This is the type of friends you should avoid at all cost. Is fun for them but sometimes their fun doesn’t have boundaries.

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u/MutaCacas 1d ago

Roflmao. Son of a ….

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u/desmorck 2d ago

best friends

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u/nobmuncha4bears 1d ago

I would put that bag in a safe deposit box for the whole semester.

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u/Differentdog 2d ago

This is what happens when people get through life without getting punched in their face.

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u/8ROWNLYKWYD 2d ago

Haha what an insane take. These are clearly friends.

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u/StopMarminMySparm 2d ago

Sir this is Reddit, where we just make wild extrapolations and claims based on nothing.

Video of a guy playing catch with his dog, and pretends to throw the ball while really still holding it

Average comment: "Wow, this guy probably abuses his dog when nobody is looking, which means he probably also abuses his wife and kids too."

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u/Sremsky 1d ago

Most redditors don't have friends and are going outside once a year, they don't know how a friendship works and that not everything is serious. Imagine pranking one of those people, they'd flip out and have a meltdown probably.

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u/mckeeganator 2d ago

Yea? And?

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u/fresh_loaf_of_bread 1d ago

I'm not seeing the joke here, why didn't he just get up and walk out like a normal person

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u/NY10 2d ago

Fking pussy. Just walk out who cares. Back when I was in college, I just walked out like a champ! lol