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My mother was diagnosed with cancer in my final semester. I couldn't concentrate to study or do my projects. I asked three professors for extra time to comple
by mleonhard 11y ago
My mother was diagnosed with cancer in my final semester. I couldn't concentrate to study or do my projects. I asked three professors for extra time to complete projects or take exams. Two agreed immediately. One refused until I broke down crying in his office. I always thought he was an asshole. If the data in this joke paper is real and family members are 50x more likely to die before exams, that means that for every student with a real family death, there are 50 students lying about it. So I guess my prof was just jaded from so many students lying to him.
- metasean 11y agoIt's bad enough that my mother requires a death certificate within a certain amount of time. [1] That said, I had a freak accident in grad school and had a professor who expected me to call into his class from pre-op! (i.e. There are some actual asshole professors!) [1] Edited to add: She implemented this after the same student for the third time claimed a grandmother had died right before an exam!