The Best Excuse of the Day
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Professor David C. Wyld (dwyld@selu.edu), the author of The Handbook of College Student Excuses, serves as the Merritt Professor of Strategic Management at Southeastern Louisiana University in Hammond, Louisiana. He is a management consultant, researcher/writer, publisher, executive educator, and experienced expert witness. Archives
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 “I will say I once had a student apologize for being late to class. He waited until after he turned in his midterm to tell me he'd been in a car accident and was trying to find a doctor's appointment for after my class. I begged him to please email me after he'd been to urgent care. He did *not* look okay.”
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 “One of the strangest excuses I ever heard for not turning in that week's work (after they were a stellar straight-A student all semester, mind you) was that they'd severed their feet - technically their toes, I guess. The strangest part of the excuse was it was for real. They had had to get their feet surgically put back together after a ladder had broken and came down, the rungs mangling their feet at the arches. My poor student had been in the hospital and unconscious the entire week, so hadn't had a chance to even tell me they'd be late. When they finally woke up, the first thing they told their spouse was to contact me to say their work would be late that week. I told them to take two weeks, at least! Their adviser called me to say they had a doctor’s note if I needed it as proof and I said not to worry about it, I believed them."
Want to read the “best” excuses that students have actually used on their college professors, from the professors themselves? Buy the ebook, The Handbook of College Student Excuses, today from Smashwords (https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1073655) or on Amazon (https://amzn.to/3rM5IXZ).
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 Image by Free-Photos from Pixabay “Had a student miss class because he hit a deer on the way to campus. Missed the next class because he needed to get a rental car, having totaled his by hitting the deer, and had to find someone to rent it for him because he was under 25. Missed the third class because he hit a deer in the rental. All documented. All true. Told him he should buy an orange car moving forward.”
Want to read the “best” excuses that students have actually used on their college professors, from the professors themselves? Buy the ebook, The Handbook of College Student Excuses, today from Smashwords (https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1073655) or on Amazon (https://amzn.to/3rM5IXZ).
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 Image by eroyka from Pixabay “I had a student get on Zoom last spring while he was getting his hand stitched up (from nearly severing a finger) in the doctor’s office.”
Want to read the “best” excuses that students have actually used on their college professors, from the professors themselves? Buy the ebook, The Handbook of College Student Excuses, today from Smashwords (https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1073655) or on Amazon (https://amzn.to/3rM5IXZ).
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 Image by smarko from Pixabay “Had a student miss class because he hit a deer on the way to campus. Missed the next class because he needed to get a rental car, having totaled his by hitting the deer, and had to find someone to rent it for him because he was under 25. Missed the third class because he hit a deer in the rental. All documented. All true. Told him he should buy an orange car moving forward.”
Want to read the “best” excuses that students have actually used on their college professors, from the professors themselves? Buy the ebook, The Handbook of College Student Excuses, today from Smashwords (https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1073655) or on Amazon (https://amzn.to/3rM5IXZ).
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 Image by Pexels from Pixabay “I had one student who was skateboarding to get a coffee, crashed, and ended up with a concussion. They ended the email with ‘and I never got the coffee.’”
Want to read the “best” excuses that students have actually used on their college professors, from the professors themselves? Buy the ebook, The Handbook of College Student Excuses, today from Smashwords (https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1073655) or on Amazon (https://amzn.to/3rM5IXZ). |
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