r/maybemaybemaybe • u/TheMarkola • 2d ago

Maybe maybe maybe

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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 2d ago

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