That’s nothing. I showed up for class one day, only to discover that the exam I thought was scheduled for that day, was actually given on the day before.
…as evidenced between this story and the one below, I had a hard time in college. Just know that it has a happy ending, and I did get my degree in the end. It just took a lot longer than the typical 4 years.
I actually did that *twice* with two different exams.
First one I found out because the teacher emailed me after the exam should have been, second because I got there and no one was there.
Both were finals.
I was thankfully allowed to make up both.
Kevin
On the day of the final for the hardest class I ever took, I got to class and realized I had forgotten my formula sheet. I made the twelve minute bike ride back to my apartment in four minutes, something that by all means should have been physically impossible.
It ended up working out, the teacher was late so I didn’t miss any of the exam.
Yet-One-More-Idiot
I knew a boy in my class who was so tired from having spent all night studying for the exam the following morning, that he passed out about 20 minutes into the exam. The teacher did not bother to wake him up until a couple of minutes from the end (it was a 2-and-a-half hour exam), and informed him that he had slept through almost the entire exam.
Some teachers can be real doo-doo heads.
prime_pm
First time I overslept in college will always live with me.
I woke up around 8:30, my class started at 8:30 and it was off campus. I had to forego a shower and rushed to the building as fast as possible. Bus wasn’t running so I had to walk the whole way. By the time I arrived, class was half over and I was hot and exhausted. All I wanted was to return to my dorm and take a long shower.
Then 9/11 happened. Yeah.
doubledown
The first time i took a bar exam i fell asleep for 30 minutes during the second half of the MBE (the multiple choice part). this after going back to my hotel room to take a nap in between the two parts of the multiple choice.
Tenn
@Kevin: Well, time runs slower the closer to the speed of light you move.
Amanda
I skipped the exam review day, as it was a simple gen ed course. The professor SAID it was the exam review day.
I showed up on the day of the test, no one in sight. I never got a full answer as to why the test had been given on the review day.
begbert2
I did that once, the ‘find out the final was rescheduled buy showing up’ thing. I didn’t care much though, since I was going to fail it anyway: it was a philosophy class and the teacher hated me, so *anything* I said or wrote was marked marked wrong. There’s still a small part of me that suspects he sent out a rescheduling email to everyone but me.
My first year roommate and I were both in ROTC, which meant having to get up before the crack of dawn several times a week for Physical Training (PT). I’m still not certain how I managed to get through four semesters of ROTC without a bunch of absences and tardies for PT sessions. I mean, 6am, college students, and physical activity just don’t mix.
One day my roommate and I both neglected to set our alarm clocks (which was related to an argument the previous evening about my alarm clock being too loud). My roommate utters “Fuck!” quite loudly, which woke me up, then I spend a few moments glancing back and forth between clocks to confirm that I’m not imagining things and proclaim “Oh, shit!” Both of us in unison then proclaim “We’re late for PT!” I think we then both determined that PT would be over before we could get our gym clothes on and head to the rec center, so we just put on normal street clothes and went for breakfast.
I can’t remember what the exact punishment was, but I’m certain it involved lots of pushups and angry people shouting at us.
nekobawt
“lots of pushups and angry people shouting” is how i imagine military basic training to be.
Beanzoboy
I can attest to that. Throw in some mountain climbers, about a billion sit ups, pushups for days, running more in one morning’s PT regimen than you have for the first ~18 years of your life, and a whole bunch of pissed off military training instructors who love nothing more than exercise their vocal cords into your ears. Oddly enough, those were the best two months of my life. It sucks worse than hell while you’re there, but afterwards you wish you could go back. Unless you’re Finance. Those guys don’t do any work. Psh.
Happened the exact same way for me, too (minus the boyfriend-sleeping-next-to-me part). My roommate gets back from class at 10am… “Don’t you have class?”
As long as you still understood the subject matter and did your assignments, you should survive.
Doctor_Who
I did fine. All the useful stuff in Comp Sci happens in computer labs, not lecture halls.
Kevin
I have a 1pm comp sci class this quarter that I just don’t try to go to most days, because the parking lot (which I think comes in around 5000 spaces) fills up at 12:30 and you literally cannot park at the school after that. 12:29, you’re ok, 12:31, you’re SOL and might as well go home.
Kevin
When I was estimating the number of parking spots by averaging the parking space density over the total area of the lots, I forgot to include the parking structure. There should be at least 7000 spaces including the parking structure.
Caladbolg
Comp Sci? Lab? What is this manner of sorcery?
Mind you, the amount of CS degrees LSU gives out is no where near record breaking.
Deathjavu
Well, the problem for me isn’t so much learning the material as it is doing and turning in the assignments…among other things, our professors are old, stubborn, and still learning the concept of “we could put up all the assignments and schedules online.” And then I still have to wake up to turn stuff in, because some of my professors won’t take assignments before the in-class due date.
Having the stuff online is great not just for people who skip class (me), but also highly convenient for anyone who didn’t get the assignment written down, lost it, etc. Quicker and more reliable than having to ask someone in the class, which also requires you to still have friends in your classes. And obviously they already have digital copies of any handouts, so it’s not asking them to do…much of anything, really.
It’s actually kind of mind boggling how behind my uni is with online integration…my high school had ~90% or better of the teachers with everything available online- schedules, timely grades, assignments, sometimes even notes. And that was 6 YEARS AGO. 6. YEARS. Meanwhile my university has TWO professors in my goddamn department that can manage this *amaaaaazing feat*. Two out of TWELVE.
StClair
Professors tend to have been at their jobs (and ossified there, along with their habits) for much longer than most public school teachers.
Nyxness
It’s worse when you have trouble finding motivation to go to class, but you go to a small liberal arts college where all your professors actually know you and notice when you’re not there. Like, the only real reason for me to go to Calculus class is to turn in homework and take exams; other than that I learn on my own from the textbook… but the prof would definitely notice if I skipped too much.
Discussion (240) - “Alarm”
Tunaro
And then Zombie Dorothy murdered everybody.
Jen Aside
I expect she filled her pants first.
JessWitt
With triplets?
GoldStarz
No, with dodecatuplets!
Badeyes
Why I read that as ‘Someone Capulet’ is beyond me but my next thought was “Wow won’t that make the Montagues jealous”
Tucker
The highest of brows.
maarvarq
Dodo Capulet, Juliet’s little sister (which would make her about 11…)
Daibhid C
Wasn’t she a Doctor Who companion?
xKiv
Who will not have been, eventually?
GoldStarz
No, just the the school staff, her classmates, Walky, and Sierra. She isn’t THAT bloodthirsty, GOD.
Maveric1984
She wouldn’t kill Walky. Not after getting to taste that caramel.
Tunaro
I don’t know, caramel brains sounds oddly delicious.
xKiv
It will only be a small killing.
Valerie
Just a little death.
La Petit Mort
I see what you did there. *nudge nudge*
Ivan
What’s with the bomb Gravatar?
Idon'tcarenomore
Shock does that.
Mr. Random
The first time I slept in.
KingMabel
…and realized that I had an exam that day
Just Cheeto Dust
I slept in multiple times before I fucked up that bad.
And replace “exam” with “finals.”
Maveric1984
That’s nothing. I showed up for class one day, only to discover that the exam I thought was scheduled for that day, was actually given on the day before.
…as evidenced between this story and the one below, I had a hard time in college. Just know that it has a happy ending, and I did get my degree in the end. It just took a lot longer than the typical 4 years.
Alyssa
I actually did that *twice* with two different exams.
First one I found out because the teacher emailed me after the exam should have been, second because I got there and no one was there.
Both were finals.
I was thankfully allowed to make up both.
Kevin
On the day of the final for the hardest class I ever took, I got to class and realized I had forgotten my formula sheet. I made the twelve minute bike ride back to my apartment in four minutes, something that by all means should have been physically impossible.
It ended up working out, the teacher was late so I didn’t miss any of the exam.
Yet-One-More-Idiot
I knew a boy in my class who was so tired from having spent all night studying for the exam the following morning, that he passed out about 20 minutes into the exam. The teacher did not bother to wake him up until a couple of minutes from the end (it was a 2-and-a-half hour exam), and informed him that he had slept through almost the entire exam.
Some teachers can be real doo-doo heads.
prime_pm
First time I overslept in college will always live with me.
I woke up around 8:30, my class started at 8:30 and it was off campus. I had to forego a shower and rushed to the building as fast as possible. Bus wasn’t running so I had to walk the whole way. By the time I arrived, class was half over and I was hot and exhausted. All I wanted was to return to my dorm and take a long shower.
Then 9/11 happened. Yeah.
doubledown
The first time i took a bar exam i fell asleep for 30 minutes during the second half of the MBE (the multiple choice part). this after going back to my hotel room to take a nap in between the two parts of the multiple choice.
Tenn
@Kevin: Well, time runs slower the closer to the speed of light you move.
Amanda
I skipped the exam review day, as it was a simple gen ed course. The professor SAID it was the exam review day.
I showed up on the day of the test, no one in sight. I never got a full answer as to why the test had been given on the review day.
begbert2
I did that once, the ‘find out the final was rescheduled buy showing up’ thing. I didn’t care much though, since I was going to fail it anyway: it was a philosophy class and the teacher hated me, so *anything* I said or wrote was marked marked wrong. There’s still a small part of me that suspects he sent out a rescheduling email to everyone but me.
Ivan
meh – I crammed 4 years into 7 myself.
What’s with the big boom Gravatar?
Tawdry Quirks
My first year roommate and I were both in ROTC, which meant having to get up before the crack of dawn several times a week for Physical Training (PT). I’m still not certain how I managed to get through four semesters of ROTC without a bunch of absences and tardies for PT sessions. I mean, 6am, college students, and physical activity just don’t mix.
One day my roommate and I both neglected to set our alarm clocks (which was related to an argument the previous evening about my alarm clock being too loud). My roommate utters “Fuck!” quite loudly, which woke me up, then I spend a few moments glancing back and forth between clocks to confirm that I’m not imagining things and proclaim “Oh, shit!” Both of us in unison then proclaim “We’re late for PT!” I think we then both determined that PT would be over before we could get our gym clothes on and head to the rec center, so we just put on normal street clothes and went for breakfast.
I can’t remember what the exact punishment was, but I’m certain it involved lots of pushups and angry people shouting at us.
nekobawt
“lots of pushups and angry people shouting” is how i imagine military basic training to be.
Beanzoboy
I can attest to that. Throw in some mountain climbers, about a billion sit ups, pushups for days, running more in one morning’s PT regimen than you have for the first ~18 years of your life, and a whole bunch of pissed off military training instructors who love nothing more than exercise their vocal cords into your ears. Oddly enough, those were the best two months of my life. It sucks worse than hell while you’re there, but afterwards you wish you could go back. Unless you’re Finance. Those guys don’t do any work. Psh.
Nyxness
Happened the exact same way for me, too (minus the boyfriend-sleeping-next-to-me part). My roommate gets back from class at 10am… “Don’t you have class?”
Yotomoe
I’m gonna need a transparancy of that Panel 3 Sierra, Willis.
Kevin
She looks the same in the other two panels. Are you numberist? o_O
Glynvel
No, panel three she is clearly bracing herself for unholy amounts of panic being released.
Ivan
He’s into the Cyclops look.
paradoxius
Is this sufficient, or would you like me to get rid of the junk at the edges?
http://i.imgur.com/q5qEf3U.png
Super Duper
But if that’s true, then shouldn’t the Dalek Eye stalk come out of her head now?
MM
That’s the next panel.
Shogouki
Please state the nature of your medical emergency.
ninja_jesus
A clear statement of your symptoms will help us provide the medical practitioner appropriate to your individual needs.
Maveric1984
Janeway has been acting out her fantasies on the holo deck again, but this time she got… stuck…
Plasma Mongoose
Thanks for that, now I will be hearing Dotty speaking with SF Debris’ Evil Janeway voice.
Plasma Mongoose
Just as long as it wasn’t as class you enjoy, you can make it up later.
Yotomoe
I think it’s Gender Studies. Which might be one of Dorothy’s favorite classes.
Plasma Mongoose
That would be a shame, we haven’t seen any decent DoAverse Leslie for quite some time now.
KingMabel
Maybe she’s having nightmares about babies being thrown out of windows…
Plasma Mongoose
Or babies forming in her tummy, which is worse for obvious reasons.
Bill
For some reason I interpreted “DoAverse Leslie” as “doable Leslie”. It’s clear to see where my mind’s happy place is.
Liz
Nah, pretty sure Gender Studies is after lunch.
That Damn Rat
Pretty sure it’s math…. as Sal’s coming with them and I don’t think she’s in gender studies.
Cybersnark
Either way, it’s the class Joyce is in, and which Dotty and Walky will come running into while out of breath and disheveled. . .
Tenn
*dramatic Joycemunk*
timemonkey
If it’s math maybe someone will fake notes for her so the teacher won’t notice she was absent?
shietka
It’s Intro to Logic: http://www.dumbingofage.com/2012/comic/book-3/01-if-the-shoes-split/logic/
Bill
And with parent’s weekend over, it is indeed Monday. Well played, shietka.
StClair
You don’t understand. This absence is going to show up on her permanent record.
JAD
A different reaction to Amber’s “ALL SHALL BURN”
Doctor_Who
Missing video games is far more important in college than missing class.
Deathjavu
Oh no. Once you realize the world doesn’t end from missing one class, it’s all downhill from there.
Betty Anne
I can back THAT one up, unfortunately. :/
Doctor_Who
Same here. Once I discovered that classes of 400 don’t take attendance, waking promptly at 7:30 wasn’t a priority.
Plasma Mongoose
As long as you still understood the subject matter and did your assignments, you should survive.
Doctor_Who
I did fine. All the useful stuff in Comp Sci happens in computer labs, not lecture halls.
Kevin
I have a 1pm comp sci class this quarter that I just don’t try to go to most days, because the parking lot (which I think comes in around 5000 spaces) fills up at 12:30 and you literally cannot park at the school after that. 12:29, you’re ok, 12:31, you’re SOL and might as well go home.
Kevin
When I was estimating the number of parking spots by averaging the parking space density over the total area of the lots, I forgot to include the parking structure. There should be at least 7000 spaces including the parking structure.
Caladbolg
Comp Sci? Lab? What is this manner of sorcery?
Mind you, the amount of CS degrees LSU gives out is no where near record breaking.
Deathjavu
Well, the problem for me isn’t so much learning the material as it is doing and turning in the assignments…among other things, our professors are old, stubborn, and still learning the concept of “we could put up all the assignments and schedules online.” And then I still have to wake up to turn stuff in, because some of my professors won’t take assignments before the in-class due date.
Having the stuff online is great not just for people who skip class (me), but also highly convenient for anyone who didn’t get the assignment written down, lost it, etc. Quicker and more reliable than having to ask someone in the class, which also requires you to still have friends in your classes. And obviously they already have digital copies of any handouts, so it’s not asking them to do…much of anything, really.
It’s actually kind of mind boggling how behind my uni is with online integration…my high school had ~90% or better of the teachers with everything available online- schedules, timely grades, assignments, sometimes even notes. And that was 6 YEARS AGO. 6. YEARS. Meanwhile my university has TWO professors in my goddamn department that can manage this *amaaaaazing feat*. Two out of TWELVE.
StClair
Professors tend to have been at their jobs (and ossified there, along with their habits) for much longer than most public school teachers.
Nyxness
It’s worse when you have trouble finding motivation to go to class, but you go to a small liberal arts college where all your professors actually know you and notice when you’re not there. Like, the only real reason for me to go to Calculus class is to turn in homework and take exams; other than that I learn on my own from the textbook… but the prof would definitely notice if I skipped too much.