Finding Out When Class Has Been Cancelled
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So all four things happened, and they only figured it out at the end? Um…
Maybe if the y-axis was probability of occurrence.
Anyone that’s been to college will immediately get the joke regardless of the y-axis.
I’m in college, and the idea of getting a call seems… unlikely. On the other hand, the way things normally go is that there is only a note on the door; no e-mail, no announcement at the previous lecture.
Another way I know professors are just students who never wanted to leave school :/
My university has a system through the registrar’s office whereby I send an email to the whole class triggered by a single email — the problem with this system is that it uses “official, school-generated” email addresses and not the actual addresses students use.
Phone calls to huge lecture classes are impossible, and it can be difficult at times to find someone to post a note on short notice (although instructors do try). Which is why we have a 10-minute policy on our campus.
Thus, I propose an addition to the chart “after you’ve sat in class for 10 minutes waiting for the professor/instructor to show up.”
yeah same here, just a note flapping in the wind…and a 25 minute commute back to the house…with mixed emotions, lol
In the snow usually with my luck, so 25 minutes becomes an hour.
The only class-cancelling call I ever observed was during a bad snowstorm, when in the middle of class my professor answered a call from the administration, saying classes were cancelled RIGHT THEN. So everyone on campus got out at the same time in the middle of a period, and of course a massive snowball fight ensued.
Best day ever.
amen. i had to walk 4 flights of stairs with a bag full of books, and down a way-too-long hallway, before seeing the bright yellow computer paper of cancellation. If there were a dog randomly standing there, I would’ve kicked it. =)
In my school we get this note 5-15 AFTER the lesson should have started…
5-15 minutes after i ment
I love it when this happen, especially since I spend hours commuting to school.
My commute’s only 15 minutes, but I take the bus so I could be stuck waiting for an hour, or two, after this. And it happens >.<
Actually… happened last term, my German prof was sick. tg that was only an hour wait, but ugh…
I assumed it represented the chances of those methods of informing the students of the cancellation being used.
If you knew what the system we have to use to look up student contact information was like, you’d understand why phone calls to individual students will NEVER happen at my school…
You know, I never expected the professor to call every student personally, but it would be nice if the cancellation was actually added to the cancellation hotline. That always bugs the hell out of me. All it ever says is “The campus is open.”
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Yes, adding cancellations to the phone message would be good. At the moment, on our campus at least, we’re not that organized – things aren’t centrally coordinated well enough for that.
On the other hand, we’re using online coordination programs for individual classes now, so if the teacher is on the ball, he or she can send mass e-mails to the students letting them know that class is canceled, and the ones in my department, at least, are very good about doing that.
Hmmm…. Try by email half an hour into the (lecturer-less) lecture
my favorite is when you go into the class and there is a big powerpoint slide on the board that says “class is canceled.” as for the email. it usually comes atleast 3-4 minutes before class starts, not that you have the ability to check it by then
My favorite: when the teacher is late and the entire class decides that class has been cancelled, then stampedes away down a back hall so as not to be caught by the teacher who you know really is coming to class. Unless of course you have some poopy two-shoes in your class who insist on staying and tattling on the rest of you.
Mine usually happens when I get into the classroom and it’s written in a marker that doesn’t quite work on the dry erase board.
Or when another prof comes in and tells you “your prof is stuck in France, go home.”
At least a professor came to tell you. More than once I’ve waited 15 minutes before a grad student came to tell us that our prof wouldn’t be coming that day. My favorite was when the prof’s wife came to proctor the exam because our prof was hung over. At least she brought brownies.
I hate when that happens!!
Who calls?
Otherwise this is hilarious.
Although you are missing “Email at 3am when I have already stopped checking it for the night”
Calls happen if there’s a campus-wide reason for canceling classes if your school has an alert system.
I’m in graduate school at a small school (Troy University) and my teacher will call if class is canceled. It’s rare, but it happens. When I was undergraduate though, the note on the door was the standard notification method…
Had this happen all to often. Only at our school they don’t bother hanging up post-its on the door so we know they are sick. We have to wait 15 and the ask the secretariat if they are ill. It’s especially pleasant when you have 2 hours of class at 8.15 am to figure they are ill.
“the secretariat”
you ask a racehorse? :p (sorry, couldn’t resist)
Secretariat (March 30, 1970 – October 4, 1989) was an American thoroughbred racehorse. Secretariat won the 1973 Triple Crown, becoming the first Triple Crown winner in 25 years, and set still-standing track records in two of the three races in the Series, the Kentucky Derby (1:59 2/5), and the Belmont Stakes (2:24). Like the famous Man o’ War, Secretariat was a large chestnut colt and was given the same nickname, “Big Red.” – Wikipedia (sorry, I couldn’t resist)
You forgot the “dicking around campus waiting for class to be cancelled”.
Here’s a worse one for you. No announcement, No note on the door, door is unlocked and lights are on. Class is half filled and no teacher, we(me and a few brave souls) go to check to see if they are in their office and just didn’t realize the time. Teacher’s office is in another building with a note is taped to their locked office door, all of their classes are canceled for the week. x.=.x They went on vacation…
Epic win. A little tired, but funny.
I had to laugh at this from the perspective that when you’re in college, a “sign” on the door normally means something unrelated to class being canceled. I’m glad to see a lot of other people weren’t thinking in these perverted ways LOL.
I can see how this would be annoying… some people do commute long distances. They should atleast have an email system. It isn’t hard to send out a mass email.
I get this. I hate when this happens.
Can’t find the funny, is it hidden behind the big green bar?
never been in college?
Long, long time ago and apparently in a parallel universe, where most teachers had the foresight to announce cancelled classes the week before.
Anyway, can’t see how on the grand scheme of things it is relevant whether a college student loses a few minutes because he went for a class that was cancelled. I cannot imagine anybody with a lower opportunity cost of time.
Apparently our professors are less considerate than yours were. Ours never announce their sick days ahead of time.
This is akin to a chart stating “where I found my keys” and give a few options and have “the last place I looked” as one of them, with 100%.
>_< I got the whole "Note on the door" thing ALL THE TIME back in college.. it sucked but it was only a 15 minute drive so it wasn’t as bad as it could have been..
good one…. i hate this more than anyone will ever know!!!
this especially applies to early morning classes
Ha. I read this two days ago, then yesterday that exact thing happened. Ironic.
Been there, done that… it’s a minor inconvenience, but still aggravating. Especially in bad weather. Last semester the teacher for one of our classes put a little blurb on the class “oncourse” site (in the ONE posting spot that wouldn’t send out a mass email automatically) saying she couldn’t make it. She had sent out mass emails with assignment stuff before, and since she lived over an hour away she knew well ahead of time. We all sat in class for fifteen minutes before someone managed to find it. I would have taken a note on the door as opposed to that (well she couldn’t put up a note if she couldn’t get to campus, but you know what I mean).