please say there isn't really someone this stupid

[smileyeagle1021]

I just got a mass email sent out to be by one of my professors.
It reads simply,
Reminder, your final is on Wednesday at 9:10am in the regular room. You are required to take the final.

OK, I can understand telling us the time (sense it's not the standard meeting time) and the location (some tests are being held in different classrooms)... but who needed to be told that the test is required I'm sorry, if you're a college student and you don't know that you have to take your final then I think you'll get the grade you deserve.

[trunks2k]

Probably because in some classes, if you have a certain grade going into the final, you don't have to take it. I've had a couple classes wherein, if you did well enough on the assignments, quizzes etc, you could opt out of the final.

[marty]

Same as trunks. I had one class where the final wasn't cumulative and one test grade would be dropped, so one really didn't have to take it.

[JoitheArtist]

There are people that stupid in college. I have met them. At college, paying $25,000/year to continue to remain stupid.

[ShinyGreenApple]

There are people that stupid in college. I have met them. At college, paying $25,000/year to continue to remain stupid.

I had an IM conversation with someone the other day, who wasted no time in telling me how busy they were, because they go to college six days a week. I asked what their major was.

"What? . . . I don't understand. What's a major? I don't know what that is."

Seriously, how can you attend college and not know what a major is?

[Chanlin]

Seriously, how can you attend college and not know what a major is?

One would hope this individual was lying about going to college. But then, as sad as I am to admit it, they probably aren't lying.

[smileyeagle1021]

Probably because in some classes, if you have a certain grade going into the final, you don't have to take it. I've had a couple classes wherein, if you did well enough on the assignments, quizzes etc, you could opt out of the final.

Same as trunks. I had one class where the final wasn't cumulative and one test grade would be dropped, so one really didn't have to take it.

I've had classes like that too... but it says on the sylabus handed out at the beginning of class "one standard test will be dropped from your grade. No cumulative exams, such as the midterm or final, may be dropped. Attendence for all tests is mandatory"

I'm sorry, I thought that was plain enough english that anyone who can't read their syllabus will get what they deserve.

[JoitheArtist]

I thought that was plain enough english that anyone who can't read their syllabus will get what they deserve.

Are you serious? Expecting people to #1, read, #2, comprehend, and #3, take responsibility?

Pardon me for a moment.



Oh man, I needed that kind of a laugh today...

[Kiwi]

Seriously, how can you attend college and not know what a major is?

the only thing I can think of is they actually meant high school

I went to R******* College, for my high school in NZ its the same thing.

University is something completely different

or maybe they are in the general education portion of their degree (thank god I missed that by 2 years at my uni) and havent yet picked a major?

God I hope so, I couldn't believe the attitudes of some of my fellow classmates at uni, no one is forcing you to get a degree so why are you pissing and moaning about having class and tutorials 4 times a week.....you made the choice to come here, your PAYING to come here you should at least try to get something out of it!

every single one of my classes had a compulsory exam.... sigh

[trunks2k]

I've had classes like that too... but it says on the sylabus handed out at the beginning of class "one standard test will be dropped from your grade. No cumulative exams, such as the midterm or final, may be dropped. Attendence for all tests is mandatory"

BUt honestly, how many students pay attention to the syllabus? I don't think I had a single class throughout all of college that actually abided by syllabus.

[Shangri-laschild]

Because some students are in fact that stupid. Or they figure that they have a good enough excuse. I had one such call the other day...

Him: Uh...so I have a final today...only...I can't go to it. I'm on house arrest and am only cleared to go to class on Mon, Wed, and Friday and since the final is today (a Tuesday) I can't make it. What should I do?

I skipped the "you're a dumb ass and should have taken care of this earlier" and just transferred him to his teacher.

[Kogarashi]

Only time I've ever missed a final, it was because my e-mail host died the night before the teacher sent out the reminder e-mail, which explained a last-minute time and location change, and my e-mail host didn't recover until the day of the exam's original scheduling. After I'd left for campus around noonish to go to the room where the syllabus listed the final being. No sign on the door or anything, so I waited outside, along with a small handful of other students from my class (about three) who also hadn't gotten the last-minute e-mail. When I got home, I finally got the e-mail, stating that the test had been that morning halfway across campus from where I had been waiting.

Thankfully, after e-mailing the professor, he allowed me to take the final with the other section of the class, which would be two days later. I'm glad he did. The class was World History, a subject I really loathe, and I wouldn't have wanted to retake the entire semester's worth of study for one non-cumulative exam. Especially since this particular professor was awesome, and I didn't know if he'd be teaching it again the following semester.

[TOLady]

Wishing you the best of luck on your finals!

*sends brain cells en masse if that helps any*

28 Minutes to Tequila!

[Imogene]

One of my classes for Game Design was a "basic computer use" course.
No, seriously.
I found out the first day of the class, there'd be a test, and if you got more than 90% on it, you could opt out of the class. Well, okay, says I, thinking that the video game design students would likely beat the hell out of said test.
I take the test, turn it in, and go on to start the work for the day.
Next class period, I get told I'm the ONLY one who got above a 90 on it.

And, from then on, any class we got that test out test, I was the only one who passed it.

[Chromatix]

If you think that's bad - and I agree BTW - then you should have seen a C++ programming course I took once. This was back in 1997/8, when the Internet was stil a novelty to most people, and certainly to me.

The class soon settled down to a pattern: the teacher would explain something, then ask a question about it; there would be stunned silence for about ten seconds; I would then turn around from my web-surfing (on the stupidly heavily locked-down Windows workstations, which didn't even have the right video drivers) and give the correct answer.

I later found out that the course had, on average, a 1% pass rate. I got a Distinction, having been told that I should have a go at achieving a perfect score on the final exams. There was perhaps one other student in the class who had a good chance of passing.

This isn't an indictment of the teacher, BTW. He wasn't terrible. The other students simply didn't have the required enthusiasm for the inner workings of a computer to do well on a programming course.