*whoops*

so i'm going to be 100% honest here.

so far we've gone through about 12 weeks of uni. and it's terrible i know, but for my 3rd yr politics unit (which is pretty much "the big unit" which most students complete in their final semester - i.e. it's a 50 credit unit which has a research paper worth 50% of the unit grade), participation in tutorials is weighted as 20%. this can be considered to be exceptionally high, considering that most other units only have 10% participation. now in order to actually participate, one would have to actually ATTEND the class right?

as i've discovered, i've "somehow" managed to miss roughly 5 of these tutorials. independently, 5 isn't such a bad number. but... in my case, that's 5 of 9 tutorials i've missed. quite embarrassing really. but what made things even more embarrassing is the fact that when i walked into class today, and passed my tutor in the hallway, he looked at me and said "hi, pheebs"... and then, he gave me this look. and immediately i thought "oh no, he totally noticed that i haven't been here for the last like 4 classes". so a few minutes later, to cement my speculation about his unfortunate knowledge (of my wagging), just after class started, he walked over to me and handed me my marked research proposal - which i then found out from a friend, the same research proposal that everyone had gotten back 3 weeks ago in class.

*slaps forehead*

i guess the lessons in all of this, are:

(1) don't wag;
(2) don't wag classes in which your tutor knows you (by name);
(3) if you're going to wag, wag smart - i.e. sporadically;
(4) don't wag classes when they hand stuff back - that's way too obvious; and
(5) it'd probably be better to not wag at all

as they say, a lesson may be learned too late, but it's better than never having learned the lesson at all! and you know what? i've got 2 semesters after this to prove it!

:)