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15 Things That Should Be Excused Absences

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Every class has a different attendance policy, but one thing that seems to be a common thread is the trouble it is presenting an "excused" reason to be absent.  If you're not going for a med school interview or in the hospital, than you're basically out of luck.Sometimes we all need a scholastic break. These reasons should all be acceptable, from time to time.1. Even though you set three alarms at seven minute intervals on your trusty iPhone not a single one of them went off. 
2. Okay, maybe they all went off, but even in your sleeping stupor you managed to successfully snooze each one to death. You can't be held responsible for things you don't remember, just like your 21st birthday or that night on Bourbon.   
3. You have no clean clothes. Like, you've had the same XL swap shirt on the past three days of class and you've just been wearing a sweatshirt hoping that no one notices or can smell you. 
4. It's Monday.  
5. The weather is amazing and sitting in that 11 a.m. class in the jail cell with no windows is crushing your soul.  If you can't skip, at least have class outside. Getting some Vitamin D would make scanning lines of ancient poetry bearable.      
6. If you do go to class, you will throw up in said class, because of the 24 hour stomach virus that is so popular on Friday mornings.
7. You genuinely have a stomach virus and, no, maybe you don't need your left leg amputated, but you shouldn't have to abide to an insane zero absence policy when you feel that bad and should be in bed surrounded by tissues, Nightquil and Netflix.    
8. It's Tuesday.
9. You actually managed to wake up early after a spontaneous night of squaring, do your Spanish homework and make coffee! You're awesome. You step out the door ready to fight for your right to park and notice your car is no where to be found.
10. You honestly need a you day. I don't care if it sounds dramatic or cheesy. Sometimes you just need a day to hit the refresh button and classes aren't helpful to that process.
11. It's Wednesday.
12. You got your heart broken. Where's the excuse to not mindlessly sit through a psych class on "different types of love in developing youths" for that?
13. Your mom surprises you with a visit and wants you to show her around daytime square. Salads and shopping with the woman who gave you life should clearly be a free pass to skip on a chem lab.
14. It's Thursday. Plus, you looked in the mirror. Some days there's just not enough time in the world to tame the mane and scrape last night's mascara away and still make your 8 a.m.
15. Yeah, Friday classes shouldn't be offered.

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