I’m at at 3.8 cumulative GPA and 13 hours for the semester. I’ll finish it with 10 hours, 4 classes, with all +A’s.
One 3 hour class I don’t want to attend anymore for personal reasons.
Please don’t ask why.
I don’t care if I get the F…I’d prefer it.
I just need to know what happens if I don’t go anymore. It meets twice a week, and there’s 4 more classes left until the semester is over.
I read up all about the R2T4 calculation for students that quit attending or withdraw past the withdrawal drop date, so I’m doing the math on if I’ve passed the 60% limit for my Title IV funds to be 100% earned, so that way I don’t have to pay back any of my aid.
I hope that’s the case. Has anyone just quit going to 1 class right at the end of the semester?
If I get an F, while all my other classes are, again, +A’s, my GPA still stays about 3.5, so I don’t care to worry about staying in a class when the stuff that’s happening is going on in it.
This class has no final. The professor stated the last exam was our final. There were only two exams this semester. I just can’t see why my classmates want to waste time in the remaining four class days over the next two weeks to just sit and listen about chapters they’ve stated they don’t even read. I love the class and have learned so much and have so much to be interested in and use for my life…I just have far better things to prep and study for with my time than sit and nod my head.
The professor doesn’t even call on me anymore when I have something to add to the discussion or answer a question. I asked why and my professor said, “because I have to get the other students to pay attention and care by calling out names of others who don’t seem focused.”
I’m getting an F in my favorite class by choice, because I’m sick of being silenced.
Speaking as faculty, what to do the last couple classes (especially in ones without a final exam or project or somesuch) is always a problem. I often use it to provide a chance for students to see some of the fun stuff—things that might not be central course content, but that course content leads to. So there’s that.
Well, and the chance to introduce extra credit options to those who stick it out. Just sayin’.
Unless you are being physically threatened or emotionally bullied in this class (in which case you need to speak to a Dean ASAP) there is no reason to stop going to class.
Doesn’t matter that it won’t impact your GPA, impact your funding, or change the course of your life in any way. You are in college to get an education, and if there’s a chance that by sitting in class you will hear a new insight, gain better understanding, or even just benefit from watching the professor try to explain a concept to another student… then you should attend class until the end of the semester.
Learning comes in all different ways. You’re going to spend the rest of your life working, putting dinner on the table, doing the laundry, and filing your taxes. This is your chance to absorb knowledge in a university setting. Don’t give that up.
“The professor doesn’t even call on me anymore when I have something to add to the discussion or answer a question. I asked why and my professor said, “because I have to get the other students to pay attention and care by calling out names of others who don’t seem focused.””
Entitled, much?
Your professor is just doing his/her job! If you have been dominating discussion this semester, the others haven’t needed to speak up, and/or have been coasting on your work. that kind of thing drives us college-level instructors absolutely crazy. Sit back. Give the professor a chance to draw the others out. Pay attention to the techniques he/she is using. Pay attention to the classmates who do speak up. Listen to what they have to say. Consider the possibility that you have been complicit in silencing them. Now that they do speak, some of them may have something interesting to say.
And if it turns out to be a total bust because no one talks, oh well. But your fanny should be in a seat in that classroom at every class meeting until the semester ends.
If the work is completed, final in, and you just have 4 classes left, what is the big deal? Is attendance required? If not, teacher probably won’t miss you. If attendance is required, is missing 4 classes really going to drop you from an A to an F?
When you get a job, you’ll find you have to go to all kinds of meeting and events where you won’t be called on, won’t want to be there, think it is pointless. I went to such a meeting EVERY week in one job. Same meeting, same people, same discussion. Yes, we got things scheduled and done, but at a snail’s pace. It was my job to be there, so I was there.
I don’t see this situation as one in which you should stop going to class. If you are trying to protest something, the professor either won’t see it or will utterly disagree with you.
Here’s what you are really losing out on. Learning how to take care of business. You are willing to risk your gpa and your financial aid because you think you should be in charge of this classroom. You are not in charge of it, the prof is and if you don’t like the way it is run that’s too bad. You get through college by following the general mode of a student and that is to attend class. Forget about the other students and what they are or are not doing. You will have classes you don’t like, profs that might be terrible or don’t like you and the skill to develop now since you are new, is how to get what you need out of it and move on. Get the credits, the grade etc and put it behind you… Your one person temper tantrum is at risk of the things that really matter and that is getting the degree and keeping your aid.
I see that you are a low income student and you might not have role models to show the way but everything matters. Once you lose that aid, you are going to find you have little means to get it back.People come her who were good students and let their grades slide away for one reason or other all the time. What if you have to fail a class again next term because you don’t like how the class is run? That is not an effective or wise mode of operation.
I’m not too sure you would get an F, but since you don’t know either and not 100 pct how things work, why risk your whole college career for this petty immature reason? Good luck.
Could you speak more to the ways I could lose aid, please. That’s my only concern. If I walk from the remainder of time in this class, and the professor decides to rightly fail me, my GPA would still be well above the SAP requirements for aid. I worked in the FAO and some of my classmate little friends were failing all their classes.
Also, I calculated the Return of Title IV Funds. I’ve passed the 60% earned point in the semester, so as to not have to repay a portion of aid, because if over 60%, taken by the number of days active in class divided by total days of payment period, results in no aid having to be returned.
My school advises professors to send them the grade roster with a FW for a student who “unofficially withdraws” by ceasing attendance. My transcript grade would simply be (for this semester):
+A
+A
+A
+A
F
Which is better to me than sticking around in a class where I’d like to bring in my little friend!
