To answer the first question: you are paying for the credits, which then provide an education through utilization of trained professionals–that is, your professors. While a proper education is the ultimate goal, you are not directly paying for it.</p>
<p>Finding the course material to be useless is a personal problem and is not a reflection of the quality of the school, nor the professor’s teaching abilities. Why would you choose to take a class in a subject for which you have no interest? You have no way of knowing what information will be relevant at any time of your life. Your professors have dedicated a large amount of their lives to their respective fields, so I’m sure you can take something from attending their class. I could have aced both of my Music Theory II exams without taking the course, but that’s not to say I didn’t learn anything useful or relevant to anything in the world. Believe it or not, all knowledge is eclectic.</p>
<p>I try to avoid it. But if I’m feeling sick or if I can barely get out of bed (my medication occasionally causes dizziness if I don’t get a full night’s sleep after taking it and I know better than to drive or walk to class while I’m like that), I’m not going to learn anything by going anyway.</p>
<p>I have had some classes with punitive attendance policies, though. One of my classes would lower your grade a full letter grade for each unexcused absence beyond the third, and another would dock your grade by 3% for each unexcused absence (it was an 8:35 am class, too)</p>
<p>Just realized I forgot to answer OP in my previous post. ^_^</p>
<p>The only class I have skipped thus far is Humanities 110 lecture, which all freshmen are required to take (plus a discussion group); and I only skipped it when I was up until all hours finishing an assignment due the next day or when I felt like I was dying upon waking up at 7:30am (lecture at 9am, but I would normally wake up early and go over the readings, shower and get breakfast).</p>