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THE HANDBOOK OF COLLEGE STUDENT EXCUSES
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    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.


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The College Student Excuse of the Day for November 11th

7/26/2021

 
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“Last summer, an active duty student enrolled in my course while deployed ‘over there.’ His work was hit and miss in terms of punctuality; He let me know up front he probably should not have enrolled while deployed. He messaged me one week that he hadn’t been able to do his work because he had to be ‘outside the wire’ (military terminology for attacking the enemy) with no communication. He finished the course with an extension: very respectful and hard-working when he could. His internet connection was in a tent/mess hall the whole time, so not exactly an ideal environment.”


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The College Student Excuse of the Day for October 27th

7/25/2021

 
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“I had a student whose 20+ goats got out of their pen. Someone a few miles away called the sheriff when she saw a tribe of goats wandering down her dirt road. She sent me this beautiful picture of when they found the goats on a tree lined road in the country. It took hours to round them up and get them home.”


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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The College Student Excuse of the Day for October 26th

7/25/2021

 
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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."



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The College Student Excuse of the Day for October 11th

7/23/2021

 
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“One semester when I was teaching deviance I told students in that class to come up with the most outlandish excuses they could and I'd announce the "ridiculous excuse winner" at the end of the semester. Only one student gave a non-normative excuse that entire semester and it was, ‘Aliens kidnapped me to teach them out to hunt during the opening week of deer season.’”


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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The College Student Excuse of the Day for October 8th

7/23/2021

 
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“My first year teaching I had a student miss the first test telling me her mom had died. The second test came along and I got a phone message saying she had been in a car accident. For the third test, she came to my office to say her husband had just been diagnosed with cancer and she couldn't concentrate. I don't ask for documentation and tend to take people at their word, but I called bullshit. I have never felt like less of a human being than when I found out it was all true....”  


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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The College Student Excuse of the Day for September 19th

7/19/2021

 
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“I passed by my student on the way to class and he told me he was getting coffee and then coming to class. He asked me if I wanted one, and I said no thanks. Class started and I didn’t see him. 20 minutes into class another student’s phone rings and he answered it. He told me it was for me. It was the student who I passed on the way to class. He told me after he bought coffee, he went home to get his backpack. (He had his backpack on when I passed him). Then he said when he got home, his dog destroyed everything in his apartment and he had to clean up. Once he finished cleaning up, he left to head back to campus to join the class. Unfortunately, he stepped in a giant puddle and his clothes got soaked, so he had to turn back to change. (It was over a hundred degrees that day and not a cloud in the sky). Once he got back he realized, by the time he would dry up, it would be too late to go to class. So he asked me to mark him as if he attended, because if none of that happened he would have come to class. I was floored with this excuse. I was silent, rolled my eyes, and hung up the phone. True story!”


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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