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What people are telling you in the comments is that your perspective is not universal. I've personally only ever skipped one class in my time in undergrad (as a
by lynndotpy 1y ago
What people are telling you in the comments is that your perspective is not universal. I've personally only ever skipped one class in my time in undergrad (as an American at an American university), and not for a party. I'm not a special case or anything, those classes are very expensive!
- hollandheese 1y agoYou are much closer to a special case than you think. Average attendance in my and my colleagues Math 101 classes is around 30% by mid semester.
- jncfhnb 1y agoi would guess math 101 to be the least attended class across the board though
- pessimizer 1y agoIsn't it basically a remedial class, or rather a class for people who did the minimum of HS math? I would expect it to be filled with more partiers than studiers, and also that plenty of the people in it would already know a lot of the material that's covered (so why not ditch?)
- hollandheese 1y ago>plenty of the people in it would already know a lot of the material that's covered (so why not ditch?) Their test scores show that they don't already know a lot of the material that's covered. >Isn't it basically a remedial class, or rather a class for people who did the minimum of HS math? It's College Algebra (or the non-trig part of Precalculus).
- jncfhnb 1y agoI’d have to imagine that very few people in that class want to take it or have any intention of doing more math than the minimum requirement.
- rahimnathwani 1y agoDoes College Algebra at your school cover something beyond what's typically included in HS 'Algebra 2'?
- hollandheese 1y agoLike I said, it's the typical HS Precalculus class. So, it's the level above Algebra 2.
- jncfhnb 1y agoIn 2012 I took my first course in undergrad. The teacher asked everyone to introduce themselves and say something they liked to do. Every single student, except myself, said they like to party. That was shocking to me. Most students weren’t skipping classes though. Their writing skills were also abysmal. Frankly if they were that bad by college they didn’t seem likely to improve in my opinion.