Hundred$ of Reasons Not to Skip Class

re: Hundred$ of Reasons Not to Skip Class

Jamie @ Surviving College Life — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 19:23:05 GMT

This is such a good point--I always tried to remember this when I was tempted to just sleep through class. I also noticed that it is much more of a headache trying to figure stuff out at home on my own--going to lecture saved me study time, too. (And time is $ right?)

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mike — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 01:56:00 GMT

Wow! $300 bucks a class at Princeton. That's crazy.

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Aaron — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 06:10:13 GMT

Apparently you skipped your economics classes. Tuition is a sunk cost. Since you have to pay it whether you go to class or not, its not actually costing you money to skip class. Paying the tuition gives you the option to go to class. The real cost of skipping the class is the information you get from the class. If you have something to do that is more valuable to you than the information you can gain from the class, it is a better decision to skip class, regardless of how much tuition was. Its like if you pay $10 or $1 million to go see a movie, but it sucks, its a bad decision to sit through it to the end no matter what you paid.

re: Hundred$ of Reasons Not to Skip Class

Russ — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 10:51:12 GMT

Woah!

I'm just glad that over in Australia the costs for university are not that high... still at those rates I must have lost thousands of dollars!

Good work in putting in the effort to work out those figures.

re: Hundred$ of Reasons Not to Skip Class

John — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 02:53:22 GMT

Most American colleges are not that high, either. The writer is using famous (expensive) universities to make his/her point.

Still, when I first entered college in 1985, I started skipping Calculus about one week in. The instructor was just reviewing the algebra I already knew. I'd skip a day here, then a couple days. Eventually, I skipped a whole week. When I got back to class, I was totally lost! After that, I was too embarrassed to go back. Also, the class was at 0800, which might have had something to do with it!

I did this for two semesters and multiple classes. I dreaded eventually having to tell my parents, who were paying for school, what was going on. They tried to fix my laziness over the next 6yrs or so, but I could never really find a major I liked. Eventually, I entered truck driving school and did that for 9yrs. After that, I joined the US Army for four years (scored 99 on the ASVAB, so I'm not intellectually stupid!) as an intel analyst (98K20 for those who know about such things). Now, going to school, I ace every class. I find that it really takes a minimum of work to pass, and really, not much more to do well. I have a better understanding of what I didn't get when I was a kid.

Really, I wish I'd have gone to work in the real world for a few years to get an idea of what "real life" is like. Don't be like me: Even if you think school is just a waste of time and an interruption of your social maturation, humor an old(er) man and go to that class! Finish that degree! After that, do whatever you want. Really, how hard is it? ;-)

re: Hundred$ of Reasons Not to Skip Class

Cristian — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 17:58:50 GMT

Or you could have easily bought a fake diploma, but I have to admire your determination. Congratulations and try not to skip important parts of your life.