I swear college was way more lenient than high school. That's not necessarily a bad thing - high school prepares you, but they also make it sound like they're the lenient ones and your college professors will literally stab you for being late.
"THEY'RE NOT GOING TO ACCEPT ANY EXCUSES IN COLLEGE! YOU NEED CONSTANT DEDICATION!"
My professor: "I'm writing this email to all of you to let you know that my wife and I got a new kitten and I'm taking the week off to play with him. So class is cancelled and I'm probably going to cancel the exam as well and give you all an A because I don't give a fuck. Here's 9000 pictures of my kitten."
I had a professor warn us on the first day of class that we should check our email before classes in the winter since she likes to go skiing, so you never know when classes will be canceled.
Most of mine were chill as hell. It was the grad students teaching classes that were hardasses because they were either still really passionate about their field or had something to prove.
Depends on what you went to college for. I was a liberal arts major. I'd imagine STEM isn't as lenient.
Gonna depend a lot on what you study, the first semesters in a lot of STEM fields have daily or weekly proof of work requirements. I thought it was much harder than high school, but I also decided to study something mathematical despite being bad at math, so idk.
Yeah this wasn't my experience. Grading systems were automated, professors were generally robots, and the work was very difficult. I once had a TA though that didn't care as long as you got your work in by the end of the semester, but that wasn't the norm. I also got lucky with one of my TAs but that was like winning the lotto, especially in STEM.
Yup, I hated the fear they instilled. But nope, HS in the states basically threatened CPS if you miss more than a few days. They get their funding based on who is present. Hence why they took roll every day. Student stays home sick? That’s less money for the school.
In college, professors don’t give a shit if you show up or now. They’re getting paid regardless and the school already took your tuition. I’m sure any university would be happy to take anyone’s money and they not show up.
There's attendance verification checks for federal financial aid purposes now for higher ed. Some things are applied differently school to school, but it is something they are supposed to be doing.
As someone who works in Higher Ed financial? Fuck no, because federal aid pulls itself if students don’t meet their minimum threshold, and people don’t understand the concept of the fact that they’re paying for a seat in the classroom not on a per-session basis.
If a student doesn’t earn their awards, we don’t get to keep them. They go back. Yes this includes private scholarships too.
In college it was ok if I got to class 5 minutes late because I was getting cheerios and milk at the cafeteria and then I ate it at my desk and literally no one cared. I asked!
We had a university prof who told us when the essay was due and you had a week after that without penalty to hand it in. Youd be surprised how effective that was as getting it in without deductions
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u/compassrosette Aug 10 '26
6 hour before it was due.