Professor No Shows for his Review Session

It was dickish and unprofessional of your prof to not show up, but unless he's required to hold a review session before the final there is no reason that you shouldn't have to take it. I mean if he had never planned a review at all would you be saying that you shouldn't have to take the final because you didn't have a review session?

On what grounds shouldnt you have to take the test? Because the professor missed a review session? You sound like the guy who has been missing class all semester, isnt prepared for the final, and is now looking for a way to get out of it. Of course, you'll come back on and say, "I went to class everyday and blah blah blah." If you had been in class everyday you probably wouldnt be relying on a last minute study session to save your ass.

There are two professors that teach the course. One professor, who is the main guy, had his review session for his class last friday and their final was last saturday. Usually whatever the main professor does, the other professor (mine) also does. The classes scores are combined so my class is really getting the shaft. Basically, it is my last final and I do not want to take it and would rather just have my present grade.

Out of the 45 times the class meets, I probably missed 5, mostly because I already knew the stuff that we would be covering for that lecture. You're right I am trying to find a way to get out of this final because I am satisfied with my current grade (B) and think the final can only hurt my grade. The class is completely worthless because I am a business major and I have talked to numerous people that have taken the class and not one has said they have used it for a practical use.

Why would you go to a review class? 90% of the things he reviews you probably already know.

You could have better utilized your time reviewing the areas you aren't 100% on yet...ON YOUR OWN. Hopefully after wasting 20 minutes of your time you studied for the additional 1 hour and 40 minutes and are ahead anyways.

Just run, baby. Just run.

No show professor wrote:

The class is completely worthless because I am a business major and I have talked to numerous people that have taken the class and not one has said they have used it for a practical use.

Wow, very surprising. Statistics is used extensively in finance, marketing, operations management, even "management" one way or another. It's a foundation course.

Your naive outlook doesn't bode well for your future "business" career. Unless you're going to sell cars or something, it can't hurt to have a solid grounding in stats..

No show professor wrote:

The class is completely worthless because I am a business major and I have talked to numerous people that have taken the class and not one has said they have used it for a practical use.

You don't think that you are going to be using statistics in the business world? The people you talked to must have used their business degrees to get a job in the fast food industry.

I interned with an insurance agency last summer and I can say for a fact, none of the work they did had anything to do with statistics. The underwriters for the carriers use stats, but the agents themselves do not. I want to be an agent, not an underwriter.

I'm in the fitness industry and even I use statistics.

Alan

and i'm sure you'll get real far when you don't have at least a working knowledge of what the underwriters do.

Harry Kooter wrote:

It was dickish and unprofessional of your prof to not show up...

Really? What if there was some sort of emergency that prevented the professor from attending?

Yeah I have a fairly good understanding of the subject I just do not want to take the final. So I am looking for the easy way out, when it comes to my last final, big surprise. Would anyone want to take the final if the following happened: You can not help your grade only hurt it by taking the final, your professor was from some country in Asia and you can barely understand him, you could never go to the other professors class because you had another class at the same time that took attendence, the other professors class has greatly outperformed my class so the curve sucks, it is your last final before summer starts? So, I am trying to use the review session to justify not taking the final. One of the people I talked to in the department told me to email him, so that if I get a bad grade on my final I will "have something legit to b**** about."

If an emergency came up I would probably would have called someone in the department, so that person could walk down two flights of stairs and tell the class not to wait.

Haha you have a B in stats... and are worried about the final? Idiot.

No show professor wrote:

If an emergency came up I would probably would have called someone in the department, so that person could walk down two flights of stairs and tell the class not to wait.

Really? How about if you had a heart attack? A serious car accident?

Life is all about how you handle challenges and un-fair situation that you can't do anything about.

Do you bitch and complain and get mad or do you make the best of a bad situation and stay positive?

You will have many situations like this in your career in the business world.

You are being subjected to one right now. How do you want to handle it. What ever you decide to do may start a trend that carries over into future situations.

Come on now. Go bury your head in the book and your notes for a couple of hours. Do your best on the test and whatever the results you know you tried your best and didn't let a bad situation ruin your outlook or grade.

You have to be careful and learn to pick your fights. This doesn't seem like one that is worth fighting as there is not much likelihood of a positive outcome as a result.

Can I have your name please. I want to make sure not to hire you in the future. You have shown me that you are looking for the easy way out of doing some work. Work that you've known about for some time now. And you are trying to use someone else as a scape goat by trying to get them into trouble with the Department Admin in order to try and save yourself from doing what work you've known is coming.

In my office we often have changes in timelines, changes in plans and unexpected situations. Its the nature of the business world. Its fast paced and changing. Doesn't seem like you are very good dealing with that type of situation.

So save us both some time and let me have your name.