I have a college course that is very abstractly graded (it’s a seminar) and the syllabus just says it’s pass/fail, and attendance is expected. Last week I completely forgot about this class since it’s late on the afternoon and I don’t usually have anything else on those days. I had also left the previous class before that early because I had finished my work, everyone else was working the whole time and there was nothing left for me to do.
I also forgot to send a message to my professor about this until today, a whole week after that class (only meets once a week). He hasn’t responded to my message yet and it is Sunday but that’s definitely not helping.
I’m freaking out because I’m worried that since this is only a class that meets once a week for barely any time that no-showing one class would be enough to trigger that nebulous “pass/fail” thing and I won’t graduate. I have to graduate this spring I don’t know what I’ll do if I don’t, I need a job and I can’t just retake this or take this over the summer over this mistake I need to graduate in time. It’s the middle of the night and having no details on whether this is as big a deal as I’m making it is really not helping.
I’m naturally a very anxious person so maybe I’m just blowing this up but I really can’t tell with my professor. For all I know we really can’t miss any classes since they’re only 55 minutes per week and there’s no actual assignments to grade, so maybe it’s purely off attendance.
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Your syllabus for the class should outline the attendance policy deeper and how many you can miss etc
Deep breath. If you don’t make a habit of it, most classes allow 2-3 misses. In the syllabus, there should be a section called attendance policy. I highly doubt a professor would fail you for a single missed class, especially since it ultimately probably doesn’t matter if you were sick or just forgot, you’d still miss a class. Life happens, punishing students for missing a single class is unfair.