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 had a student once tell me she couldn’t show up for our exam because her son’s birthday party had gotten out of hand and she was still hung over.”
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 “One of my legitimately awesome students emailed me at the end of the semester to say she wasn't sure she'd get her work in on time. The day before, she had been in a hurry to get her kids to daycare before she had to be at work and left her laptop with all her final term papers and projects on it in a taxi cab. I gave her an extension, but she was a superstar and still got her work completed on time (and accidentally sent me one of her finals for another class as well, so I know she was working hard!).”
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 192635 from Pixabay “In the middle of a class one of my students’ toddlers ran into the room naked and my student just slammed the computer shut and didn’t come back. Later they emailed me and said ‘I’m sorry for missing the remainder of class, I was too embarrassed to log back in after everyone saw my son’s private parts.’ I cackled and assured them it was okay.” 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 Raphaël Jeanneret from Pixabay “I had a student submit a handwritten note to excuse 2 weeks' worth of absences. The note was in pencil, had several mis-spellings, and looked like a 7-year-old wrote it, but this student claimed it was from his doctor. The wacky thing was he was also attending my husband's class during that time and of course, he tried to pull it on him as well - so a ‘two fer!’” 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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 “I had a student once tell me she couldn’t show up for our exam because her son’s birthday party had gotten out of hand and she was still hung over.” 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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