subject: Education In College: Important Matter Of Attendance. [print this page] Young people, after having entered the university, mistakenly suppose local teachers to be different from those from schools, to be normal guys; and some students think that it is quite easy to arrange with them about some of your problems. But your expectations can fail. Teachers in colleges are usually totally different from your expectations and from school teachers. Together they make special type of teachers with their own features. And they can even dislike you for some reasons. One of the most important is attendance of classes.
Attendance.
If you live in a campus (or even if at home) it is most likely, that you nevertheless will have to miss classes. The independent life can demand from you, for example, to take some inquiries, or you will have to go home urgently, or you can feel bad, or just sleep your classes away.
You must show consideration for attendance of classes. You should realize very accurately, how many and which classes you can miss so that there occurred no problems. And you have to realize precisely, how many classes you have already missed!
You should know that you can have excellent knowledge of all the information taught at classes that you have missed, but nevertheless because you were absent there, you can be not admitted to passing your exams without giving even a possibility to show your knowledge!
You should know that it is possible to receive a lot of problems and even to be sent down from, for example, a maths faculty because of truant of such "unnecessary" classes as physical education and history!
Also, you should know that is very easy to be sent down because of a practical work on, e.g. programming even if you program better, than the teacher. If you have not handed works on your practicum, you will fail. Or if your programs were written in languages that were not included in educational process.
Do not look for extra problems! Its better to live without any worries about your education.
