<font color="dab9ea">My last Aunt passed away this weekend and the funeral is tomorrow... I sent an email to all my profs letting them know I would be to class on Monday, but Tuesday is the funeral and it's out of town so I won't be to any of the classes. I sent a link to the obituary as proof (my mom is listed in the survivors)... and all of them have been great except my french prof, who says she doesn't think it will be excused but she will have to check with the Foreign Lang. advisor.

I definately don't want to get messed up and will totally make up the work and turn it in via email before class, this is my last couple of classes before graduation in Aug - but at the same time, my immediate family consisted of only 4 people, my mom, grandmother, aunt and myself... and now my aunt is gone, there's no way I'm missing the funeral of someone I was that close to. </font>

i don't think aunts and uncles are considered "immediate family". :(

<font color="dab9ea">She was a part of ours because the rest of our family has already died. Seriously there are only 3 of us left now. :(</font>

it's always the goddamned french, isn't it

a guy in my high school missed a final because his dad died and got an automatic zero. totes gay.

I wasn't able to reschedule a final when my grandmother passed away.

wow that sucks. i was always able to take them earlier, and sometimes even later, but my school is more laid back i guess....the language departments are always full of bitches though an i've heard of jury duty not being an excused absence here.

I wasn't able to reschedule a final when my grandmother passed away.

same thing happened to my girlfriend when her grandfather died. and this was someone she lived with most of her life, not some out-of-town relative kind of thing.

oh.. the reschedule wasn't for the funeral. it was that he died either the night before or two nights before the exam. can't remember which was the case.

<font color="dab9ea">She was a part of ours because the rest of our family has already died. Seriously there are only 3 of us left now. :(</font>

i totally understand, but by a lot of standards, your immediate family are your parents and any siblings. grandparents are usually in<o>cluded in that, but i've had classes where the professors were total dicks about it. :(

That's really dumb.

But I guess I can't really relate, I skip all the time and I haven't yet had a prof that gave two shits one way or the others.

Maybe it's a North/South thing because all my experiences in college up here in New England have been a lot more laid back. Like I'll tell a prof I'm not going to be in class on whatever day and they're like "Oh...ok, cool, thanks for the heads up, whatevs."

Also everybody walks into class 10 and 15 minutes late and they still get credit for attendance.

i don't think aunts and uncles are considered "immediate family".

exactly.

French prof. is a bitch, but she's right.

you guys went to shitty schools.

obscured01 tell us what your gpa is

funerals are overrated

deeming is a pretty cool word

I would fail you just for sending me a link to the obituary.

I don't think any school will take that as an excuse. Not even middle or high school so don't feel so bad.

I don't think any school will take that as an excuse. Not even middle or high school so don't feel so bad.
no, they do. in most colleges its at the discretion of the professor, and in my high school and plenty of others people were excused for funerals. but then again an excused absence was just that they got to make up the work and didn't get counted for truancy i think.

Ok so what'd you do to get that special treatment that I didn't do

Ok so what'd you do to get that special treatment that I didn't do
:think: attended a different school?.....

There's an obvious joke I could put here but I won't.

Just kidding kristin. I have nothing against you or anyone but I just like to be weird sometimes

either way funerals are generally seen as excusable absences. 'sall i'm sayin
and yeah you're kinda weird but you'll fit in here no problem

We get 3 days off and then after that the prof takes points off unless it's excused. It's school policy.

This thread title made me think that her death was an unexcused absence

which is cool

when I die, I want my obituary to say I given and unexcused absence and am currently MIA






I need to write this down

if you had gone and seen all ur teachers instead of writing them an email ud probably be in the clear

who me?

maybe the sun will shiiiine today
the clouds will blow away
maybe i wont feel so afraid
i will try to understand
either way

good song man

bummer, Sarah. Do you have any work due on Tuesday in the French class? If not, then who freaking cares if it's "excused" or "unexcused" ? As long as you haven't missed too many classes and don't have a test that day, it really shouldn't be a big deal.

i rescheduled a final because i told him my grandma died in illinois but really it was because i was going to see the pumpkins at the UC