| Column: Attending class could pay off |
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| Written by Erin Harty - Argonaut | ||||||
| Monday, 30 November 2009 | ||||||
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As the semester winds down and it gets closer to finals, classes seem
to have fewer and fewer students. Students who once came to class
diligently begin to skip one, then two classes, fail to turn in
assignments on time or don’t bother at all. This is not the time of
year to extend the weekends and not put an effort into your education.
If anything, it is time to be vigilant — taking in every bit of
instruction opportunity available. Heart surgeons don’t have the luxury
of skipping out of the last hour of a transplant, and mail carriers
don’t just decide not to deliver mail to the right side of the street,
so why should students — when school is really their job — feel it is
okay to only make a half-hearted attempt at the end of the semester?
This lack of interest in preparing for exams and learning the material leads one to believe that students are paying for an education they either don’t want or don’t think they have to work for. This isn’t elementary school, there are no gold stars for attendance and no one is going to let you be line leader because you turned in all your assignments, but going to class and actually doing the work will pay off. Just because a particular class does not have a cumulative final, or attendance is not taken, does not mean what is presented to students the last few weeks of class is of no value. Take this example: a person is falsely accused of murder and they hire an attorney. This attorney passed all their classes and obviously passed the bar exam, but toward the end of every semester slept late and didn’t go to class. This attorney can prove their client is innocent with one simple piece of evidence — a piece of evidence they glance over because the day they discussed this exact kind of case in the evidence law class, the last two weeks of school, they decided not to go. Oops, their client is now facing a life sentence. Okay, this may be going over the top, but it makes the point — while it may not seem like it at the time, every little bit of knowledge learned in the classroom could come in handy one day. Don’t throw money at the university and then not take advantage of what that buys. Absorb all the information given to you and become a better student, and maybe even find a real job one day because of it.
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