I don’t even think it affected my grades. If it was an early morning class I probably wasn’t going to soak up much knowledge anyway. To quote Lewis Black “There’s nothing you can learn through one bloodshot eye”.
Besides, the notes were all online, and the syllabus listed which textbook sections we were covering.
I actually did have one university class that took attendance. It was compulsory for all engineering students, and was teaching us useful skills like how to use Word and Excel.
There were enough people skipping lectures that it became noticeable, so they started taking attendance. That resulted in people ticking their name off at the start and then leaving. Then they switched to taking attendance at the end, and then at a random times during the lecture. That resulted in people getting others to tick off their name.
My animation teacher said “being punctual is important in the workforce” and literally would fail you for the day if you were even a minute late. No matter what was due that day. Also if your project wasn’t 100% finished by the time class started, it was considered late and you got an F. Even if you were just renaming it in the correct MLA format at the last second you were counted late. It was brutal.
Ugh, I remember the basic “what is computer” classes. You’d think they’d start networking majors on the OSI model, not “the W is called Microsoft Word”. Eventually we got to the good stuff, but we had to slog through a lot of stuff like Visual Basic, ISDN, and T1s (in 2007!) to get there.
One of the very first classes taught us about physical PC hardware at a very high level, think “gaming PC build tutorial” stretched out to a semester. (Luckily by that point, they had wised up and let you take that class for free after hours while you were still in high school. Somebody still managed to screw up the “remove and replace a stick of RAM” exercise though. I still don’t understand how. You’re just taking out one thing and putting it back exactly the way you found it! Somehow they managed to cram DDR2 into its slot backwards and crooked, and they fried the whitebox tutorial PC.)
Computer science night school had a staggering attrition rate, too. The first classes were standing room only, and by the end of the program there was maybe a dozen of us left. So many high schoolers and folks who were only in it for the money got suckered in on the TV commercials’ promises of easy, high-paying jobs. I think about half of the class was gone by the end of the first semester.
James
That basic computing skills part wasn’t even the worst part of that course. For one assignment we needed to prepare a report for acquiring/building a portable hazard lights trailer as you’d find at road works, complete with costings.
There were maybe two companies who supplied that kind of equipment in the city, neither of which published prices online. They weren’t warned that they’d have an entire class of students wasting their time on calls for that would never result in sales. They definitely weren’t happy when I called them.
Needfuldoer
We had to build out (on paper) the entire IT infrastructure for a fictional multinational corporation, from scratch, as a group project. Dell and HP reps love it when you string them along to get volume pricing, only to find out the “consultancy firm” is just some kids in a classroom working on an assignment. (You’d think they would have been tipped off by the name “Howard Fine and Associates”…) Cisco wouldn’t even give us the time of day once the jig was up.
At least our group priced out more than one copy of Office. (Seriously, another group quoted one copy that they would “just install on all the PCs”. And the professors asked us why our “bid” was so much higher than theirs…)
drs
“love it when you string them along to get volume pricing”
Pfff their fault for not making their pricing more transparent.
Wagstaff
I heard that Germany has laws that require phone companies to make the pricing of their coverage plans completely transparent.
We definitely need more laws like that in the U.S.
Geneseepaws
At least that was after vampire taps, and cat-3 phone wires for networking.
In one of my later semesters, I attended the first two classes of a phonology course, determined that it was going to be Absolutely Useless because the lecturer was head over heels with Optimality Theory and wasn’t going to teach about any other approaches to the subject, and stopped showing up. It was a 9:30am course, so that meant a whole extra hour of sleep on those days! I did the readings and turned in the homework on time via e-mail, and never further had to darken the door of the classroom.
Late in the semester I shared an elevator ride with the lecturer going somewhere on campus; she cheerfully greeted me and I smiled and did the smalltalk thing and although she clearly knew who I was and that I was theoretically a student of hers, zero mention of my lack of attendance was made.
(I aced the final exam, a take-home essay question, whereupon she asked if we agreed that OT was a good approach to phonology and why/why not. My answer was along the lines of ‘it explains this one very particular thing okay but for everything else it’s pretty much trash, sorry your faves are garbage’.)
Ok, so I first read this as a phrenology course, thought “WTF?”, shrugged, then kept reading. Then I cottoned on but still, it seems like what you got was the linguistics equivalent, so I’m still shrugging. ? Sorry you got dragged through that mate. Though I’m glad you had the opportunity to provide solid feedback.
It’s college, they assume you’re an adult, and don’t obsess over daily attendance. If you skip every class, but still get an A on exams, they’re satisfied you know the material.
I skipped one day of economics in community college one summer, and the professor called me into his office to chew me out about it. I was really surprised at the time. Thinking back, though, I was a high schooler (the class counted both for high school and for my future university degree) and spoke up in class relatively frequently, so maybe it shouldn’t be surprising. Still, he definitely cared.
(No, I don’t remember what excuse I gave. I wasn’t about to say “well, I think your lectures are useless and I get everything I need from the textbook” to his face.)
Yeah, if its a dual highschool/college credit class, its highly likely that attendance is mandatory (for the highschoolers) I think it’s a funding thing
My nursing classes had a participation point component built into the grades, and it made up enough of a portion that missing more than one class had a noticeable impact. Considering anything less than 78% was a failing grade, it was best to not chance losing out on those easy points and to just show up.
There was the intro chem class I showed up to for the first week to watch the professor read from the book to the giant lecture hall. Didn’t waste my time with that anymore. Did go to the lab sections of course. Think I got a B+?
I had a photography class that was only once a week. I had to miss the first class. I was dropped. He explained that I missed everything about using the darkroom and all of that. Not cool.
Attendance is mandatory in college classes ATM.
As are seating charts. And assigned seating.
… so we can tell the nice medical people who was sitting next to who if someone has to quarentine.
In my college experience you really only had to go to class once a week. The teacher gave you an assignment and essentially until it was due the rest of the glasses were just designated work time with maybe a lecture at the start. Each class was different of course, but most of the time you went to class if you needed the teachers assistance or advice.
Yeah, at least in my experience, most of the real WORK of college happens outside of class.
I don’t know about how it was for the rest of you, but where I went it was recommended to spend at least three hours studying for every hour of lecture.
In college, I had a theater class as what I thought was the easiest of the required arts credits. I went regularly for a while, before I realized that all the tests were not only multiple choice, but the kind of multiple choice where you could rule out three of the four answers via common sense. I stopped going regularly and started playing Morrowind more often.
Then one week I came in after a long break, and the prof said “I’ll have your grades from the test last class up on the website by the end of the week.” I wasn’t there to take said test.
I did what immature college students do: came up to the prof after class was over and lied my ass off. I spun some horrid yarn about how I was in contact with some woman in an abusive marriage who was staying at my apartment for a while, and I was too busy dealing with that situation to think about tests. It was awful, I still feel bad about it, but the theater prof ate it up. She said she would take my grade on the next test as my grade on this one too, no big deal.
Anyway, I missed that test too. Too busy currying favor with the Telvanni. Only class I ever failed. Whoops.
Needfuldoer
Plot twist: the professor saw straight through your ruse, but played along because you were learning about acting.
Never had a class like that. They gave plenty of work, but that was for your own time. Lots of lectures, class discussion, chances to question what you didn’t understand. Don’t remember any designated work time.
Man your guy’s college experience was way different than mine. Like don’t get me wrong some classes you could totally skip consequence free but I also had classes where skipping was a death sentence that cast you your whole grade.
I was granted a time turner for one class. Or at least given formal permission to schedule a clash.
I started off attending one half of each lecture, but quickly established the lecturer for the module I needed to complete as a course requirement somehow spent 2 hours reading through slides I could read in 10 minutes without adding anything at all, and the one on machine vision which was one of the advanced modules I was taking instead of doing a dissertation was worth attending.
same.
I also had this horrid lecturer who was reading from the 101 book he wrote, which was a mandatory purchase bc he did not read all of it (even if it was short) and tested on things that were only in the book. Also you couldn’t come with any good reason to miss, he wouldn’t allow it, even with a broken leg or a dead relative.
And this american latin teacher who was reading latin with his accent (he was in France since at least 20 years and knew no one here pronounce it this ways, from what I happened to know later), resulting in people who weren’t speaking english to make spelling errors. He also made grammatical errors. Mind you, what you wrote in the test wasn’t really important anyway cause he mainly checked if you were there every class (monday morning class aka the lethal hour).
All in all, latin teacher were really a weird bunch and I was glad I had learned the subject before getting to college.
I don’t remember any where just showing up was that significant – in the taking attendance and counting it heavily sense. Some where class participation was important.
Several where the professor warned us that while he wouldn’t be grading on attendance, he’d be seriously impressed if we could pass without showing up regularly.
And of course some big lecture hall classes where no one would ever know if you showed or not.
We did use to joke that the difference between high school and college was that in high school you’d have kids skipping when there was a test while in college a test would bring faces you’d never seen before.
I get the distinct impression that theirs is not exactly a happy relationship.
I’m looking forward to hopefully getting some more Sarah backstory, since as of now that’s largely been limited to events that only happened in her freshman year.
All people taste like boiled arse. It’s just what flavor of boiled arse you’re choosing to tolerate at any given moment.
davidbreslin101
You’re cooking them wrong. And eating the wrong cut….
Wagstaff
Both sound good to me!
But seriously, if you think coffee always tastes like “boiled arse”, you’ve obviously never tried a Cold Brew Mocha Freeze from Costco.
That stuff is like the Krabby Patty of coffees!
I am Nothing
Why does that coffee have both “cold” and “freeze” in its name?
dralou
Because they made extra-sure that the coffee was already cold when they began to freeze it.
In all seriousness, a “cold brew” is a process differing from a regular brew. To quote the Chicago Tribune article I’m plagiarizing: cold brew is made by steeping ground beans in cold water. This results in both a longer brew time and a smoother taste”.
I am Nothing
Huh, this wasn’t really a question I’d expect to have a genuine answer to, but thank you for the interesting explanation.
“A good idea is that which not only solves one problem, but can solve multiple problems at once.”
— Shigeru Miyamoto
RassilonTDavros
…BRB gonna go make a list of problems that can be solved by starting an emulation website
Josh Spicer
Miyamoto: But not that way. NintenLawyers, attack.
Delicious Taffy
Wait, you wanna play a Nintendo game in a way Nintendo didn’t specifically lay out for you to play them in, whether they’ve made any effort to make that game available themselves or not? Why, that’s worse than murder!
Eclipsa
DANG IT I wish we had a way to “like” or “heart” or whatever here.
Also Sarah is on a scholarship and her grades have been shown to decline when she doesn’t get her study time with focus in, so she’s not someone who just inherently ‘gets’ stuff so she can’t afford to blow off her classes.
I took my classes VERY seriously in college. I showed up every day, sometimes I stayed late and I engaged with my teachers so much it pissed other people off.
Granted that’s cuz I went to art school and I was SUPER excited to learn everything I could cuz I FUCKING LOVE ART.
Also I had a teacher where if you were late for class without an excuse (even by one minute) you got a 0 for the day. Which could range between failing a small test to failing a HUGE 70% of your grade project just because you were 2 minutes late.
While I hated taking his classes I liked him as a teacher. Really put a fire under our ass and forced us to push our limits. Which honestly I think definitely helped in the long run.
Sarah doesn’t like anybody that much. She only tolerates Joyce because she’s been through so much trauma and doesn’t want to seem like a total asshole.
I think she might like Dorothy and Dina in a quiet “I can respect your passions and you don’t annoy me with your presence” sort of way.
I also think Sarah projects “bitter cynic” to protect herself, and Joyce’s resilience and optimism in the face of it all, along with her genuine desire to learn and do better and be a good person slid past her defences. Their big sister-little sister dynamic is real and heartfelt.
Doesn’t mean Joyce doesn’t irritate the carp out of her sometimes – sisters can do that, as Liz is demonstrating – but she does genuinely care for and about Joyce, even though she’d swear blind she knows better!
Yeah, I didn’t skip intentionally, but in big lectures, the teachers NEVER bothered to take attendance. If there were over 100+ people, the teachers’ attitude was generally ‘Fuck it, I have my degree, if you don’t care to show up, IDC either.’
… ‘I’m not telling my professors I got kidnapped. Again.’ should not have made me laugh nearly as hard as it did (ie, audible, actual laughter.)
It is in fact the first week of classes and therefore missing is likely not a huge deal material-wise, so I suspect Sarah doesn’t want to spend time with Liz (and Joyce, in tandem.) Wonder if it’s something about the whole parents’ divorce thing, or just Sarah being generally avoidant with people? Either way, more than game for Sarah-centric story time.
It’s hard to say – Sarah’s hinted a couple times they don’t have a good relationship (“Lying to your parents is an adulthood rite of passage, like pretending you love them.”) but it’s hard to say if that’s true or if she’s just crusty.
I always took it as Sarah was afraid she would eventually lose her scholarship if she couldn’t study vs she was ever close to actually losing it.
Like I think she had a bad test score, but there was never any threat of academic probation or anyone in the administration/faculty talking to her about their concerns regarding her grades.
Scholarship requirements can be quite a bit higher than anything that would trigger faculty talking to a student, much less academic probation.
I think I had a small scholarship my first year that went away when I didn’t maintain a 3.0. Or maybe it was even higher – long time ago now.
156 thoughts on “Skip”
Ana Chronistic
the last one, never ever got called out for skipping
especially for the auditorium classes, heck if they even noticed I was there to begin with
…it showed in my grades BUT STILL
Doctor_Who
I don’t even think it affected my grades. If it was an early morning class I probably wasn’t going to soak up much knowledge anyway. To quote Lewis Black “There’s nothing you can learn through one bloodshot eye”.
Besides, the notes were all online, and the syllabus listed which textbook sections we were covering.
James
I actually did have one university class that took attendance. It was compulsory for all engineering students, and was teaching us useful skills like how to use Word and Excel.
There were enough people skipping lectures that it became noticeable, so they started taking attendance. That resulted in people ticking their name off at the start and then leaving. Then they switched to taking attendance at the end, and then at a random times during the lecture. That resulted in people getting others to tick off their name.
Yotomoe
My animation teacher said “being punctual is important in the workforce” and literally would fail you for the day if you were even a minute late. No matter what was due that day. Also if your project wasn’t 100% finished by the time class started, it was considered late and you got an F. Even if you were just renaming it in the correct MLA format at the last second you were counted late. It was brutal.
Needfuldoer
Ugh, I remember the basic “what is computer” classes. You’d think they’d start networking majors on the OSI model, not “the W is called Microsoft Word”. Eventually we got to the good stuff, but we had to slog through a lot of stuff like Visual Basic, ISDN, and T1s (in 2007!) to get there.
One of the very first classes taught us about physical PC hardware at a very high level, think “gaming PC build tutorial” stretched out to a semester. (Luckily by that point, they had wised up and let you take that class for free after hours while you were still in high school. Somebody still managed to screw up the “remove and replace a stick of RAM” exercise though. I still don’t understand how. You’re just taking out one thing and putting it back exactly the way you found it! Somehow they managed to cram DDR2 into its slot backwards and crooked, and they fried the whitebox tutorial PC.)
Computer science night school had a staggering attrition rate, too. The first classes were standing room only, and by the end of the program there was maybe a dozen of us left. So many high schoolers and folks who were only in it for the money got suckered in on the TV commercials’ promises of easy, high-paying jobs. I think about half of the class was gone by the end of the first semester.
James
That basic computing skills part wasn’t even the worst part of that course. For one assignment we needed to prepare a report for acquiring/building a portable hazard lights trailer as you’d find at road works, complete with costings.
There were maybe two companies who supplied that kind of equipment in the city, neither of which published prices online. They weren’t warned that they’d have an entire class of students wasting their time on calls for that would never result in sales. They definitely weren’t happy when I called them.
Needfuldoer
We had to build out (on paper) the entire IT infrastructure for a fictional multinational corporation, from scratch, as a group project. Dell and HP reps love it when you string them along to get volume pricing, only to find out the “consultancy firm” is just some kids in a classroom working on an assignment. (You’d think they would have been tipped off by the name “Howard Fine and Associates”…) Cisco wouldn’t even give us the time of day once the jig was up.
At least our group priced out more than one copy of Office. (Seriously, another group quoted one copy that they would “just install on all the PCs”. And the professors asked us why our “bid” was so much higher than theirs…)
drs
“love it when you string them along to get volume pricing”
Pfff their fault for not making their pricing more transparent.
Wagstaff
I heard that Germany has laws that require phone companies to make the pricing of their coverage plans completely transparent.
We definitely need more laws like that in the U.S.
Geneseepaws
At least that was after vampire taps, and cat-3 phone wires for networking.
Dragonfire
In one of my later semesters, I attended the first two classes of a phonology course, determined that it was going to be Absolutely Useless because the lecturer was head over heels with Optimality Theory and wasn’t going to teach about any other approaches to the subject, and stopped showing up. It was a 9:30am course, so that meant a whole extra hour of sleep on those days! I did the readings and turned in the homework on time via e-mail, and never further had to darken the door of the classroom.
Late in the semester I shared an elevator ride with the lecturer going somewhere on campus; she cheerfully greeted me and I smiled and did the smalltalk thing and although she clearly knew who I was and that I was theoretically a student of hers, zero mention of my lack of attendance was made.
(I aced the final exam, a take-home essay question, whereupon she asked if we agreed that OT was a good approach to phonology and why/why not. My answer was along the lines of ‘it explains this one very particular thing okay but for everything else it’s pretty much trash, sorry your faves are garbage’.)
Decidedly Orthogonal
Ok, so I first read this as a phrenology course, thought “WTF?”, shrugged, then kept reading. Then I cottoned on but still, it seems like what you got was the linguistics equivalent, so I’m still shrugging. ? Sorry you got dragged through that mate. Though I’m glad you had the opportunity to provide solid feedback.
Deanatay
It’s college, they assume you’re an adult, and don’t obsess over daily attendance. If you skip every class, but still get an A on exams, they’re satisfied you know the material.
Jenn
I skipped one day of economics in community college one summer, and the professor called me into his office to chew me out about it. I was really surprised at the time. Thinking back, though, I was a high schooler (the class counted both for high school and for my future university degree) and spoke up in class relatively frequently, so maybe it shouldn’t be surprising. Still, he definitely cared.
(No, I don’t remember what excuse I gave. I wasn’t about to say “well, I think your lectures are useless and I get everything I need from the textbook” to his face.)
Paradox
Yeah, if its a dual highschool/college credit class, its highly likely that attendance is mandatory (for the highschoolers) I think it’s a funding thing
Lanie
My nursing classes had a participation point component built into the grades, and it made up enough of a portion that missing more than one class had a noticeable impact. Considering anything less than 78% was a failing grade, it was best to not chance losing out on those easy points and to just show up.
thejeff
There was the intro chem class I showed up to for the first week to watch the professor read from the book to the giant lecture hall. Didn’t waste my time with that anymore. Did go to the lab sections of course. Think I got a B+?
Max
I had a photography class that was only once a week. I had to miss the first class. I was dropped. He explained that I missed everything about using the darkroom and all of that. Not cool.
Rose by Any Other Name
Attendance is mandatory in college classes ATM.
As are seating charts. And assigned seating.
… so we can tell the nice medical people who was sitting next to who if someone has to quarentine.
Doctor_Who
It was very liberating in college the first time I woke up to my alarm on a Monday, declared “Fuck it”, and rolled back over to no consequences.
If only working life could be the same.
Sirksome
In my college experience you really only had to go to class once a week. The teacher gave you an assignment and essentially until it was due the rest of the glasses were just designated work time with maybe a lecture at the start. Each class was different of course, but most of the time you went to class if you needed the teachers assistance or advice.
Wagstaff
Yeah, at least in my experience, most of the real WORK of college happens outside of class.
I don’t know about how it was for the rest of you, but where I went it was recommended to spend at least three hours studying for every hour of lecture.
Dr Sharks
In college, I had a theater class as what I thought was the easiest of the required arts credits. I went regularly for a while, before I realized that all the tests were not only multiple choice, but the kind of multiple choice where you could rule out three of the four answers via common sense. I stopped going regularly and started playing Morrowind more often.
Then one week I came in after a long break, and the prof said “I’ll have your grades from the test last class up on the website by the end of the week.” I wasn’t there to take said test.
I did what immature college students do: came up to the prof after class was over and lied my ass off. I spun some horrid yarn about how I was in contact with some woman in an abusive marriage who was staying at my apartment for a while, and I was too busy dealing with that situation to think about tests. It was awful, I still feel bad about it, but the theater prof ate it up. She said she would take my grade on the next test as my grade on this one too, no big deal.
Anyway, I missed that test too. Too busy currying favor with the Telvanni. Only class I ever failed. Whoops.
Needfuldoer
Plot twist: the professor saw straight through your ruse, but played along because you were learning about acting.
thejeff
Never had a class like that. They gave plenty of work, but that was for your own time. Lots of lectures, class discussion, chances to question what you didn’t understand. Don’t remember any designated work time.
Yotomoe
Man your guy’s college experience was way different than mine. Like don’t get me wrong some classes you could totally skip consequence free but I also had classes where skipping was a death sentence that cast you your whole grade.
Miri
I was granted a time turner for one class. Or at least given formal permission to schedule a clash.
I started off attending one half of each lecture, but quickly established the lecturer for the module I needed to complete as a course requirement somehow spent 2 hours reading through slides I could read in 10 minutes without adding anything at all, and the one on machine vision which was one of the advanced modules I was taking instead of doing a dissertation was worth attending.
khn0
same.
I also had this horrid lecturer who was reading from the 101 book he wrote, which was a mandatory purchase bc he did not read all of it (even if it was short) and tested on things that were only in the book. Also you couldn’t come with any good reason to miss, he wouldn’t allow it, even with a broken leg or a dead relative.
And this american latin teacher who was reading latin with his accent (he was in France since at least 20 years and knew no one here pronounce it this ways, from what I happened to know later), resulting in people who weren’t speaking english to make spelling errors. He also made grammatical errors. Mind you, what you wrote in the test wasn’t really important anyway cause he mainly checked if you were there every class (monday morning class aka the lethal hour).
All in all, latin teacher were really a weird bunch and I was glad I had learned the subject before getting to college.
thejeff
I don’t remember any where just showing up was that significant – in the taking attendance and counting it heavily sense. Some where class participation was important.
Several where the professor warned us that while he wouldn’t be grading on attendance, he’d be seriously impressed if we could pass without showing up regularly.
And of course some big lecture hall classes where no one would ever know if you showed or not.
We did use to joke that the difference between high school and college was that in high school you’d have kids skipping when there was a test while in college a test would bring faces you’d never seen before.
ThunderNight
It’s not like we’ve seen them go to many classes so far
Sirksome
I’m sensing two different kinds of energy from these sisters.
Thag Simmons
I think that was obvious from the first panel.
RassilonTDavros
I get the distinct impression that theirs is not exactly a happy relationship.
I’m looking forward to hopefully getting some more Sarah backstory, since as of now that’s largely been limited to events that only happened in her freshman year.
Thag Simmons
I’ve always gotten the vibe that Sarah had a relatively stable home life.
Nono
Her parents are divorced, I think, but aside from that I think she’s largely ‘normal’.
Thag Simmons
Yeah ‘stable’ was probably a poor word choice. Normal or Mundane is probably better.
Yotomoe
They both have their appeals though. Like a Black Coffee and and a Mocha Latte.
He Who Abides
Or, and hear me out here, beverages that don’t taste like boiled arse.
Yotomoe
All people taste like boiled arse. It’s just what flavor of boiled arse you’re choosing to tolerate at any given moment.
davidbreslin101
You’re cooking them wrong. And eating the wrong cut….
Wagstaff
Both sound good to me!
But seriously, if you think coffee always tastes like “boiled arse”, you’ve obviously never tried a Cold Brew Mocha Freeze from Costco.
That stuff is like the Krabby Patty of coffees!
I am Nothing
Why does that coffee have both “cold” and “freeze” in its name?
dralou
Because they made extra-sure that the coffee was already cold when they began to freeze it.
In all seriousness, a “cold brew” is a process differing from a regular brew. To quote the Chicago Tribune article I’m plagiarizing: cold brew is made by steeping ground beans in cold water. This results in both a longer brew time and a smoother taste”.
I am Nothing
Huh, this wasn’t really a question I’d expect to have a genuine answer to, but thank you for the interesting explanation.
butts
seriously, these people take their classes more seriously than any college students i have ever met, and i was a good college student
Thag Simmons
Sarah takes her schooling seriously, and may also be looking for an excuse to avoid socializing with her sister.
Wagstaff
“A good idea is that which not only solves one problem, but can solve multiple problems at once.”
— Shigeru Miyamoto
RassilonTDavros
…BRB gonna go make a list of problems that can be solved by starting an emulation website
Josh Spicer
Miyamoto: But not that way. NintenLawyers, attack.
Delicious Taffy
Wait, you wanna play a Nintendo game in a way Nintendo didn’t specifically lay out for you to play them in, whether they’ve made any effort to make that game available themselves or not? Why, that’s worse than murder!
Eclipsa
DANG IT I wish we had a way to “like” or “heart” or whatever here.
Sirksome
I’m also pretty sure Sarah’s there on academic scholarship at least partially so y’know her grades are probably more important to her than usual.
Sam
Also Sarah is on a scholarship and her grades have been shown to decline when she doesn’t get her study time with focus in, so she’s not someone who just inherently ‘gets’ stuff so she can’t afford to blow off her classes.
Yotomoe
I took my classes VERY seriously in college. I showed up every day, sometimes I stayed late and I engaged with my teachers so much it pissed other people off.
Granted that’s cuz I went to art school and I was SUPER excited to learn everything I could cuz I FUCKING LOVE ART.
Also I had a teacher where if you were late for class without an excuse (even by one minute) you got a 0 for the day. Which could range between failing a small test to failing a HUGE 70% of your grade project just because you were 2 minutes late.
Wagstaff
First of all, I LOVE your spirit!
Second of all, WOAH! That teacher sounds like a real world Eraser Head!
Yotomoe
While I hated taking his classes I liked him as a teacher. Really put a fire under our ass and forced us to push our limits. Which honestly I think definitely helped in the long run.
Wagstaff
And it shows!
He really helped you to Go Beyond, Plus Ultra!
khn0
Here law and pre-law are like you have a roleplay alignment that aligns with the name of the subject.
Koms
It seems Sarah doesn’t like her sister very much
EAG46
Sarah doesn’t like anybody that much. She only tolerates Joyce because she’s been through so much trauma and doesn’t want to seem like a total asshole.
Miri
I think she might like Dorothy and Dina in a quiet “I can respect your passions and you don’t annoy me with your presence” sort of way.
I also think Sarah projects “bitter cynic” to protect herself, and Joyce’s resilience and optimism in the face of it all, along with her genuine desire to learn and do better and be a good person slid past her defences. Their big sister-little sister dynamic is real and heartfelt.
Doesn’t mean Joyce doesn’t irritate the carp out of her sometimes – sisters can do that, as Liz is demonstrating – but she does genuinely care for and about Joyce, even though she’d swear blind she knows better!
BBCC
Yeah, I didn’t skip intentionally, but in big lectures, the teachers NEVER bothered to take attendance. If there were over 100+ people, the teachers’ attitude was generally ‘Fuck it, I have my degree, if you don’t care to show up, IDC either.’
Regalli
… ‘I’m not telling my professors I got kidnapped. Again.’ should not have made me laugh nearly as hard as it did (ie, audible, actual laughter.)
It is in fact the first week of classes and therefore missing is likely not a huge deal material-wise, so I suspect Sarah doesn’t want to spend time with Liz (and Joyce, in tandem.) Wonder if it’s something about the whole parents’ divorce thing, or just Sarah being generally avoidant with people? Either way, more than game for Sarah-centric story time.
Regalli
Also, apropos of nothing, I really love Sarah’s shirt, the color scheme is excellent.
BBCC
SAME.
It’s hard to say – Sarah’s hinted a couple times they don’t have a good relationship (“Lying to your parents is an adulthood rite of passage, like pretending you love them.”) but it’s hard to say if that’s true or if she’s just crusty.
zee
That felt pretty normal to me but that might just be bc i have an awkward relationship with family
Nono
It’s a bit weird how Liz is so blase about Sarah’s grades considering she was close to losing her scholarship, but I guess Liz is more of a wild card.
cbwroses
I always took it as Sarah was afraid she would eventually lose her scholarship if she couldn’t study vs she was ever close to actually losing it.
Like I think she had a bad test score, but there was never any threat of academic probation or anyone in the administration/faculty talking to her about their concerns regarding her grades.
thejeff
Scholarship requirements can be quite a bit higher than anything that would trigger faculty talking to a student, much less academic probation.
I think I had a small scholarship my first year that went away when I didn’t maintain a 3.0. Or maybe it was even higher – long time ago now.
BBCC
Apparently Sarah’s scholarship’s standards are high and they are strict.
zee
I mean missing one day of classes isn’t going to tank her grades
Josh Spicer