class skipping mavericks

[jwtaylor]

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Last year when i was a freshman at a junior college i skipped classes all the time (i went to one class a week the last 4 weeks of school). i pulled a 4.0. now im at a senior university and i've gotten into the skipping rut already. i was told, and expected that this place was very stringent with attendance...however, only one of my classes takes attendance. the other classes are just saying that attendance positively correlates with grades. so far i've skipped a ton of classes and im actually a little ahead. basically all that set up was to ask...(when circumstances have allowed) did any of you guys totally clean up in classes that you skipped alot, and how often did this happen?

p.s. - you can lecture me if you'd like, but i think im probably smart enough to change my ways when sh-t hits the fan.

 

[ti89]

You can do just fine. I skipped one class everytime last semester except the midterm date and the final and got an A. It depends how you study.

 

[SanDiegoSOD]

I skipped out on several classes (meaning, 0 attendance) throughout college. I often knew the material very well, but i missed out on the nuances of the class and the particular topics that professors focused upon. Because of that, I oftened earned A-s in the classes that I never attended. This may have to do with the fact that most of the classes where Political Science, were attendance could really help, as opposed to a straight biology class were one can learn just as well from a textbook. I suggest always attending the first two weeks of classes and then skipping out on lame classes from that point on.

 

[SeventhSon]

Last year when i was a freshman at a junior college i skipped classes all the time (i went to one class a week the last 4 weeks of school). i pulled a 4.0. now im at a senior university and i've gotten into the skipping rut already. i was told, and expected that this place was very stringent with attendance...however, only one of my classes takes attendance. the other classes are just saying that attendance positively correlates with grades. so far i've skipped a ton of classes and im actually a little ahead. basically all that set up was to ask...(when circumstances have allowed) did any of you guys totally clean up in classes that you skipped alot, and how often did this happen?

p.s. - you can lecture me if you'd like, but i think im probably smart enough to change my ways when sh-t hits the fan.

Skipping class is smart a lot of the times. If you go to lecture and learn absolutely nothing, you're better off spending that time sutdying on your own than getting nothing out of lecture. Sometimes I would go just for 5 min to check up on any adminstrative announcements. It also depends on heavily the class follows the book, as someone said above.

 

[tank you]

i remember when i was took molecular biology and cell biology, i went to the first lecture, midterm, and final, and received an A in both classes. i think you can skip class if the professor only uses powerpoint lecture and goes straight from the book..

 

[Thundrstorm]

I skipped a lot of classes in college, even though classes were small and my absence was obvious. Generally I would skip if:

-the class was so boring that I would just sleep/stare into space anyway
-the lecture notes were available online in powerpoint
-the tests were based on route memorization
-I had an A- or above (usually)
-I couldn't stand the professor and/or his teaching style
-I overslept. 😀


I usually didn't skip if:
-the professor was better at explaining things than the text (rare)
-the professor tested heavily on his/her comments, not the text.
-the class was heavily based on discussion
-the class interested me enough
-I was doing poorly
-attendance affected the grade (although this never stopped me from skipping Italian).
-I wanted to make sure the professor knew that I respected them.


I would often attend the classes that were merely boring once per week, but if a class were completely useless, I'd go even less. I usually made a point to attend the class before each exam.

You just have to know what classes you can skip.

 

[rbfiji13]

Last year when i was a freshman at a junior college i skipped classes all the time (i went to one class a week the last 4 weeks of school). i pulled a 4.0. now im at a senior university and i've gotten into the skipping rut already. i was told, and expected that this place was very stringent with attendance...however, only one of my classes takes attendance. the other classes are just saying that attendance positively correlates with grades. so far i've skipped a ton of classes and im actually a little ahead. basically all that set up was to ask...(when circumstances have allowed) did any of you guys totally clean up in classes that you skipped alot, and how often did this happen?

p.s. - you can lecture me if you'd like, but i think im probably smart enough to change my ways when sh-t hits the fan.

Class is only for people who learn by hearing the material. In med school the note taking service/ online audio is sufficient enough for me to keep up. Everyone goes to class for like the first week. After that, the class attendance is cut in half. Two tests blocks down and haven't regretted it yet.

 

[Med-Man84]

Last year when i was a freshman at a junior college i skipped classes all the time (i went to one class a week the last 4 weeks of school). i pulled a 4.0. now im at a senior university and i've gotten into the skipping rut already. i was told, and expected that this place was very stringent with attendance...however, only one of my classes takes attendance. the other classes are just saying that attendance positively correlates with grades. so far i've skipped a ton of classes and im actually a little ahead. basically all that set up was to ask...(when circumstances have allowed) did any of you guys totally clean up in classes that you skipped alot, and how often did this happen?

p.s. - you can lecture me if you'd like, but i think im probably smart enough to change my ways when sh-t hits the fan.

Oh it'll catch up with you, wait and see. You can only dodge the silver bullet for so long. Take it from a walking wounded still-regretting-all-those-classes-I-ditched pre-med'er

 

[Suppuration]

Oh it'll catch up with you, wait and see. You can only dodge the silver bullet for so long. Take it from a walking wounded still-regretting-all-those-classes-I-ditched pre-med'er

Maybe, maybe not. When I actually got to med school I clung to the class-going mentality for six months. When I began skipping every single lecture in favor of library-based self-study my grades shot up, my amount of free time increased dramatically, and I got into the best shape of my life. It drove my girlfriend nuts, and only years later does she admit that going to class was a ******ed, low-yield waste of everyone's time.

Of course, this doesn't work so well if you spend lecture time watching daytime TV in a bar.

 

[themadchemist]

In general, my GPA has increased as I skipped classes more. There have been exceptions, like diff eq. I got 22 points above the average on the midterm after sparse attendance, so I figured I wouldn't go anymore. The class was already poorly attended and the professor's ego was hurt. So for the final, he put a bunch of tricky questions you could only get if you'd gone to class, because they were verbatim examples from the notes. I couldn't figure them out because I hadn't been there, but some of the others were able to fare much better. Plus, I didn't have a huge amount of time to study for this final, either.

On the other hand, I sparsely attended neurobiology, even though I liked the instruction a lot when I did attend, and did below the average on the midterm. But I studied like crazy for the final and got the highest grade in the class.

So I think it has a lot more to do with how and how long you study than with how much you attend class. But that's just for my learning style.

 

[45408]

I usually didn't skip if:
-the professor tested heavily on his/her comments, not the text.
-the class was heavily based on discussion
-attendance affected the grade (although this never stopped me from skipping Italian).

Unfortunately, that's most of my classes. Most of my professors use enormous textbooks but only test you on the material covered in lecture, so you'd waste a lot of time studying the book if you didn't know what was in lecture. I did start skipping cell biology after falling asleep in every class.....