How do professors feel about students who skip lectures?

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<p>Very nice post undecided - it’s very comprehensive and takes into account all of the intricate details of college. :)</p>

<p>Here’s an enlightening post:<a href=“http://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/life/workplay_balance_at_mit/advice_youve_heard_before_and.shtml[/url]”>http://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/life/workplay_balance_at_mit/advice_youve_heard_before_and.shtml&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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Red flag #1. I overslept the second Fluid dynamics test in Unified. By 45 minutes. With only 15 minutes left in the test, I staggered into 33-225, my heart still racing from the shock. Professor Drela gave me the full hour to take it.

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I overslept the second exam in 8.033 (Relativity) by 45 minutes. Again, the professor gave me the full allotted time. “I was in college once, too,” he said. Now I don’t want to give the wrong impression. Compassion isn’t a prerequisite to becoming a professor at this school. It’d be a big mistake to confuse luck with law, and assume that I deserved anything but an F on both those two tests. But all that aside it was the jolt I needed I think, and in a way it wrenched me from the nightmare in which I’d been a living character and I took a look around. This was the second time I’d overslept something very important. Something I set 2 alarms for. Also, the exam was at 2pm.

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