Comments on: Finding Out When Class Has Been Cancelled

By: honestly

honestly — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 00:57:35 +0000

were they GOOD brownies?

By: D

Fri, 25 Sep 2009 19:41:06 +0000

Been there, done that… it’s a minor inconvenience, but still aggravating. Especially in bad weather. Last semester the teacher for one of our classes put a little blurb on the class “oncourse” site (in the ONE posting spot that wouldn’t send out a mass email automatically) saying she couldn’t make it. She had sent out mass emails with assignment stuff before, and since she lived over an hour away she knew well ahead of time. We all sat in class for fifteen minutes before someone managed to find it. I would have taken a note on the door as opposed to that (well she couldn’t put up a note if she couldn’t get to campus, but you know what I mean).

By: RainbowPaint

RainbowPaint — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 15:57:52 +0000

Ha. I read this two days ago, then yesterday that exact thing happened. Ironic.

By: Tails_155

Tails_155 — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 19:08:35 +0000

this especially applies to early morning classes

By: An Admin

An Admin — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 22:25:13 +0000

Apparently our professors are less considerate than yours were. Ours never announce their sick days ahead of time.

By: becca

becca — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 10:42:35 +0000

good one…. i hate this more than anyone will ever know!!!

By: Rose

Rose — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 07:06:52 +0000

>_< I got the whole "Note on the door" thing ALL THE TIME back in college.. it sucked but it was only a 15 minute drive so it wasn’t as bad as it could have been..

By: MK

MK — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 22:10:33 +0000

At least a professor came to tell you. More than once I’ve waited 15 minutes before a grad student came to tell us that our prof wouldn’t be coming that day. My favorite was when the prof’s wife came to proctor the exam because our prof was hung over. At least she brought brownies.

By: IPG

IPG — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 20:01:21 +0000

Long, long time ago and apparently in a parallel universe, where most teachers had the foresight to announce cancelled classes the week before.

Anyway, can’t see how on the grand scheme of things it is relevant whether a college student loses a few minutes because he went for a class that was cancelled. I cannot imagine anybody with a lower opportunity cost of time.

By: bootothat

bootothat — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 18:27:32 +0000

This is akin to a chart stating “where I found my keys” and give a few options and have “the last place I looked” as one of them, with 100%.

By: mizzdee

mizzdee — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 02:25:46 +0000

amen. i had to walk 4 flights of stairs with a bag full of books, and down a way-too-long hallway, before seeing the bright yellow computer paper of cancellation. If there were a dog randomly standing there, I would’ve kicked it. =)

By: MLD

MLD — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 00:27:03 +0000

never been in college?

By: IPG

IPG — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 23:06:10 +0000

Can’t find the funny, is it hidden behind the big green bar?

By: ano

ano — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 20:24:21 +0000

5-15 minutes after i ment

By: ano

ano — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 20:23:30 +0000

In my school we get this note 5-15 AFTER the lesson should have started…

By: An Admin

An Admin — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 17:42:58 +0000

Yes, adding cancellations to the phone message would be good. At the moment, on our campus at least, we’re not that organized – things aren’t centrally coordinated well enough for that.

On the other hand, we’re using online coordination programs for individual classes now, so if the teacher is on the ball, he or she can send mass e-mails to the students letting them know that class is canceled, and the ones in my department, at least, are very good about doing that.

By: Theresa

Theresa — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 17:35:09 +0000

I get this. I hate when this happens.

By: Hackett

Hackett — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 16:50:24 +0000

I had to laugh at this from the perspective that when you’re in college, a “sign” on the door normally means something unrelated to class being canceled. I’m glad to see a lot of other people weren’t thinking in these perverted ways LOL.

I can see how this would be annoying… some people do commute long distances. They should atleast have an email system. It isn’t hard to send out a mass email.

By: Kadie

Kadie — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 15:21:01 +0000

You know, I never expected the professor to call every student personally, but it would be nice if the cancellation was actually added to the cancellation hotline. That always bugs the hell out of me. All it ever says is “The campus is open.”

By: Billy

Billy — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 12:54:58 +0000

Secretariat (March 30, 1970 – October 4, 1989) was an American thoroughbred racehorse. Secretariat won the 1973 Triple Crown, becoming the first Triple Crown winner in 25 years, and set still-standing track records in two of the three races in the Series, the Kentucky Derby (1:59 2/5), and the Belmont Stakes (2:24). Like the famous Man o’ War, Secretariat was a large chestnut colt and was given the same nickname, “Big Red.” – Wikipedia (sorry, I couldn’t resist)

By: yasoup

yasoup — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 12:14:34 +0000

Epic win. A little tired, but funny.

By: Ink Dragon

Ink Dragon — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 11:28:57 +0000

Here’s a worse one for you. No announcement, No note on the door, door is unlocked and lights are on. Class is half filled and no teacher, we(me and a few brave souls) go to check to see if they are in their office and just didn’t realize the time. Teacher’s office is in another building with a note is taped to their locked office door, all of their classes are canceled for the week. x.=.x They went on vacation…

By: xechosx

xechosx — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 05:59:29 +0000

In the snow usually with my luck, so 25 minutes becomes an hour.

By: whitney

whitney — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 04:58:53 +0000

I’m in graduate school at a small school (Troy University) and my teacher will call if class is canceled. It’s rare, but it happens. When I was undergraduate though, the note on the door was the standard notification method…

By: Jade

Jade — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 03:33:30 +0000

Calls happen if there’s a campus-wide reason for canceling classes if your school has an alert system.

By: MLD

MLD — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 02:54:10 +0000

“the secretariat”

you ask a racehorse? :p (sorry, couldn’t resist)

By: Gert

Gert — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 02:41:54 +0000

Had this happen all to often. Only at our school they don’t bother hanging up post-its on the door so we know they are sick. We have to wait 15 and the ask the secretariat if they are ill. It’s especially pleasant when you have 2 hours of class at 8.15 am to figure they are ill.

By: SGK

SGK — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 00:15:13 +0000

Who calls?
Otherwise this is hilarious.
Although you are missing “Email at 3am when I have already stopped checking it for the night”

By: moi

moi — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 00:07:34 +0000

yeah same here, just a note flapping in the wind…and a 25 minute commute back to the house…with mixed emotions, lol

By: MLD

MLD — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 22:56:29 +0000

My commute’s only 15 minutes, but I take the bus so I could be stuck waiting for an hour, or two, after this. And it happens >.<

Actually… happened last term, my German prof was sick. tg that was only an hour wait, but ugh…

By: jeff

jeff — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 20:41:28 +0000

I hate when that happens!!

By: Mao

Mao — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 20:21:23 +0000

Mine usually happens when I get into the classroom and it’s written in a marker that doesn’t quite work on the dry erase board.

Or when another prof comes in and tells you “your prof is stuck in France, go home.”

By: Literal

Literal — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 19:32:20 +0000

My university has a system through the registrar’s office whereby I send an email to the whole class triggered by a single email — the problem with this system is that it uses “official, school-generated” email addresses and not the actual addresses students use.
Phone calls to huge lecture classes are impossible, and it can be difficult at times to find someone to post a note on short notice (although instructors do try). Which is why we have a 10-minute policy on our campus.
Thus, I propose an addition to the chart “after you’ve sat in class for 10 minutes waiting for the professor/instructor to show up.”

By: clevs

clevs — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 19:11:47 +0000

my favorite is when you go into the class and there is a big powerpoint slide on the board that says “class is canceled.” as for the email. it usually comes atleast 3-4 minutes before class starts, not that you have the ability to check it by then

By: faunablues

faunablues — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 19:11:35 +0000

I’m in college, and the idea of getting a call seems… unlikely. On the other hand, the way things normally go is that there is only a note on the door; no e-mail, no announcement at the previous lecture.

Another way I know professors are just students who never wanted to leave school :/

By: Ant

Ant — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 18:30:55 +0000

Hmmm…. Try by email half an hour into the (lecturer-less) lecture

By: An Admin

An Admin — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 18:21:06 +0000

I assumed it represented the chances of those methods of informing the students of the cancellation being used.

If you knew what the system we have to use to look up student contact information was like, you’d understand why phone calls to individual students will NEVER happen at my school…

By: Erica

Erica — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 18:19:39 +0000

I love it when this happen, especially since I spend hours commuting to school.

By: Alex

Alex — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 18:17:56 +0000

Anyone that’s been to college will immediately get the joke regardless of the y-axis.

By: faunablues

faunablues — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 18:10:24 +0000

So all four things happened, and they only figured it out at the end? Um…

Maybe if the y-axis was probability of occurrence.