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It's one of those classes that gives out meaningless homework assignments week after week, forcing students to churn out mediocre work because of the time constraints. The lectures don't even discuss how to do the assignments and it's pretty much double work having to attend class, read the book, when I could just be reading the book and doing the assignments.

If there's no attendance policy, would you stay home or attend class? I feel like it's almost self-sabotaging to oblige myself to an arbitrary rule just for optics. There's too much implicit/explicit cost that I'm compromising by going to that class. Gas for the commute, waking up 2 hours early, feeling like shit for the rest of the morning. Is it really worth it when the class teaches me nothing? I'm sitting down for 2 hours usually thinking, "man none of this stuff is on the test or hw assignments, what's the point learning this from you?"

In situations like that, I often skipped class. Still got my degree so it worked out

I can't imagine living 40 minutes from campus and signing up for an 8am

MrResetti posted...

I can't imagine living 40 minutes from campus and signing up for an 8am

It sucks which is why I'm so conflicted. If the teacher says there's no attendance policy, do you think I would be testing the professor's boundaries by staying home? Maybe they don't really mean what they say and there's an unspoken attendance policy that's more implicit. I hate to not attend class for 4 months thinking I'm getting an A, only to have it marked down at the end for some petty passive aggression that was built up by my teacher.

Well, senior year I was pretty much done and just needed one more geography course to finish my minor. I took basically the entry level course and skipped all the time because it didn't have an attendance policy and the professor sucked. Unfortunately the exams had stupid questions that related to whatever he was talking about in class. It tanked my GPA.

So idk, go to class. Might as well get your money's worth.

I leave an hour before class and have for years now.

Almost always had 8am classes.

My masters program doesn't start until 9am, love that.

MrResetti posted...

Well, senior year I was pretty much done and just needed one more geography course to finish my minor. I took basically the entry level course and skipped all the time because it didn't have an attendance policy and the professor sucked. Unfortunately the exams had stupid questions that related to whatever he was talking about in class. It tanked my GPA.

So idk, go to class. Might as well get your money's worth.

Thanks, your perspective on this matter is strangely convincing me to attend class. Waking up at 5 am to attend an 8 am class is brutal. Do you have any pointers for me? I'm getting anxious thinking about this actually.

In my final year of my undergraduate degree I only went in for exams.

You're an adult now.

The school already has your money for the semester.

It's all up to you if you want to put in effort or not.