Columnist's final words share insight into skillfully skipping class
Jeremy Reed
Issue date: 4/29/10 Section: Features
Sometimes the stresses and pressures of class seem overbearing. Sometimes situations arise that make class seem formidable.
On the other hand sometimes you just need to take a break and sometimes you may find yourself in the bitter compromise of missing one class to work on a project for another, more important or tougher class.
Whatever the circumstances, it is certain that sometimes, you just have to skip class.
For me, skipping class is just necessary sometimes. I have to take what I call a J-day. Now if your name doesn't start with J it's okay, you can take a (insert first initial) day, it's all the same.
The various reasons I'll use to justify a good J-day include but are not limited to hangovers, rain, fatigue, snow, earthquakes in foreign countries (you never know how far these things could spread), and reruns of awesome shows that I want to watch.
It's important that you skip only the classes that are of minor importance and you may want play a skip day days weeks ahead.
Remember this is chess, not checkers.
Skipping class without any backlash requires a certain skill: That skill is lying.
Lying is key to skipping class because despite the fact that you pay thousands of dollars every year to attend class, some teachers still penalize you for missing, as if wasting your own money isn't punishment enough.
But not just any lie will work. Most instructors have heard it all and so you must at the very least plant the seed of doubt. And you do that with detail.
First of all, using the death-in-the-family-card is wrong and shameless. But it works. However, I prefer to use more practical lies that require a complex story line. That's when I dig into the "lie-brary."
The "lie-brary" is a database of lies that I have stored in my head. The lie-brary is filled with dozens of back-stories and situations that sound true because they are-sort of.
One time a friend of mine happened to get food poisoning. The next week I was overwhelmed and needed a J-day.
On the other hand sometimes you just need to take a break and sometimes you may find yourself in the bitter compromise of missing one class to work on a project for another, more important or tougher class.
Whatever the circumstances, it is certain that sometimes, you just have to skip class.
For me, skipping class is just necessary sometimes. I have to take what I call a J-day. Now if your name doesn't start with J it's okay, you can take a (insert first initial) day, it's all the same.
The various reasons I'll use to justify a good J-day include but are not limited to hangovers, rain, fatigue, snow, earthquakes in foreign countries (you never know how far these things could spread), and reruns of awesome shows that I want to watch.
It's important that you skip only the classes that are of minor importance and you may want play a skip day days weeks ahead.
Remember this is chess, not checkers.
Skipping class without any backlash requires a certain skill: That skill is lying.
Lying is key to skipping class because despite the fact that you pay thousands of dollars every year to attend class, some teachers still penalize you for missing, as if wasting your own money isn't punishment enough.
But not just any lie will work. Most instructors have heard it all and so you must at the very least plant the seed of doubt. And you do that with detail.
First of all, using the death-in-the-family-card is wrong and shameless. But it works. However, I prefer to use more practical lies that require a complex story line. That's when I dig into the "lie-brary."
The "lie-brary" is a database of lies that I have stored in my head. The lie-brary is filled with dozens of back-stories and situations that sound true because they are-sort of.
One time a friend of mine happened to get food poisoning. The next week I was overwhelmed and needed a J-day.
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