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 who sent me an email for a rest stop bathroom letting me know they would miss the exam. Somehow, the door lock broke and they were trapped. They sent me pics throughout the ordeal, including with the state trooper who kept them company while the county maintenance people were working.”
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 “I had a student miss a midterm exam because his mom told him to babysit his sisters.”
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 “This is not my story, but from one of my colleagues. He had a student take an exam early because the FBI was looking for him. Sure enough, on the day of the exam, two guys in suits showed up and asked him where the student was.”
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 “I had a student who was sentenced to spend X number of days in jail. Because she was a student, they allowed her to ‘spread out’ her sentence over numerous months. She missed an exam because she ‘had to be in jail.’”
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 girl told me that she missed my exam because her mother died. I offered condolences and requested documentation. An obituary would do. Two days later I came to campus and found a note slipped under my office door. It was a pencil-written letter in girly cursive written on a page torn out of a spiral notebook stating that the girl's mother had died. It was signed “xxxx’s father.”
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 tjevans from Pixabay There is what I, myself, have found to be an extremely common one over the years, one that tells you, “Hey, your stuff isn’t as important to me as that other guy’s!”:
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