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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Lions for Lambs
dragonslayer_ — 14 years ago(June 08, 2011 04:59 AM)
Where I went to college, the profs didn't care if you attended class or not. If you did all the assignments and passed all the tests, they just computed your grade. There were people taking the exams that I never saw in class. It's well known that Einstein regularly played hooky and got the notes from his friend Marcel Grossman.
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chicago85 — 14 years ago(July 10, 2011 04:30 PM)
There are people who make a living at taking class notes and selling them as a profession. That's why I used to get resumes with mispelled words from college graduates. When you get resumes with grammatical errors you know the person is a waste of time. The academic bar is lowered to accomodate these low end achievers.
That's also why public colleges have as many as half of recent high school graduates taking remedial courses in basic skills like reading, writing and math.
What work they do is copied and pasted from the internet. These are not Einsteins.
This is also why graduate school is full of foreign students instead of Americans because they hump their backs to learn. They can't rely on relatives and family contacts to hand them a pud. -
eh442 — 14 years ago(August 08, 2011 02:06 PM)
It depends on the professor and the style of the class (if it's a lecture, or more discussion/participation based) I've had classed where the prof posted the notes online themselves and only cared if you showed up to the exam. And I've had professors who have said if you miss 2 classes, don't bother coming back.
A lot of classes I had included attendance as 10% of your grade. Even if you aced every exam and every paper, if you didn't show up, you couldn't possibly get more than a B. Which is what the character was offered. -
coolaree — 14 years ago(November 17, 2011 12:02 AM)
Im gonna have to agree.
Yes they talked about compulsory attendance to 80 percent of lectures and tutorials etc. (or a fail mark would be given), but that was never, ever enforced or even mentioned in my case or seemingly anyone elses.
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pnvanderhooft — 13 years ago(April 22, 2012 11:02 PM)
Liberal Arts colleges with seminar style classes would have professors that would care if you missed lots of classes. At Pitzer (my college and the exterior location for filming this movie, note Brandt Clock Tower and Mead Hall) all of my professors have attendance as a key component of class, usually worth half of the grade. You only get two unexcused absences per semester and then your grade is lowered.
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grumpyoldguy1 — 11 years ago(August 30, 2014 08:31 PM)
In my first four years of college here in Michigan, I did indeed have professors who would not only factor in attendance (toward your grade) but punctuality as well. These were usually the instructors who were so lame they knew attendance would suffer drastically if they didn't do this. It's as though they were afraid it would reflect badly on them with the university. Maybe it would have, but it was BS.
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Kent_Kainer — 11 years ago(February 26, 2015 04:39 PM)
The attendance was just a symptom and the prof, whos found one of the rare students that has potential in his view, wanted to know the cause and encourage him.
I think if the students reasons were sth like that he attends debating society elsewhere then the prof probably wouldnt have cared much for his attendance either. But since the fire was out he wanted to spark it again.
It wasnt about attendance.
Just as this movie wasnt about war.
Lincoln Lee: I lost a partner.
Peter Bishop: I lost a universe!