To skip, or not to skip?

Column
Pietro Alfano


Your alarm goes off and immediately you have a rush of positive emotion, you leap from your warm comfortable bed and rush to get to class out of pure excitement.

Now it is possible that not everyone has these feelings when they wake up in the morning. So what else could possibly be going through your mind? Well maybe you are thinking, it’s just a lecture day or we aren’t going to be doing anything important maybe I should just skip class; it is college.

Were just going to hit the brakes on that idea from the get go. Even if it is college and we are all supposed to be adults and be able to make our own decisions, there is one that is made for us. Aurora University has a very strict attendance policy. This may get under some peoples skin but let’s take into consideration the benefits of this policy.  

First, you are not cutting yourself short of being able to absorb any useful information that your professor is willing to instill on you that day. Second, you don’t have to worry about missing an exam that could dramatically affect your grade. Lastly, college is not cheap and if you’re going to pay that much for school why not go to class?

However, everyone has their own opinion on the importance of going to class. Since we do not get Veterans Day, Casmir Pulaski Day, or remember the Alamo day off school some might think they deserve a few personal days.  Regardless, 3 missed classes and there’s no going back, your grades about to go down.  So don’t be a sad Spartan, be cool and show up to school!