Truancy Guide

One criterion to judge whether a course is good: after finishing the course, can you add more to your resume.

By this standard, almost all courses at domestic universities are **; taking such courses is an extreme waste of your life. (Domestic tuition is so low compared to Western universities that it’s like charity, and promotions/salary increases are based mainly on research rather than teaching — if I were a teacher, I wouldn’t teach well either)

To show respect for your life, please do the following:

1. Skip classes until your teacher warns you (for example, “If you skip again you’ll fail this course”)

2. You must submit all assignments, otherwise you will definitely fail

3. Whenever possible choose senior teachers; new teachers don’t know the ropes and take attendance every class

4. Before skipping class check whether the classroom looks underfilled; if the absence is too obvious even senior teachers will take attendance

5. For electives like film appreciation, if the class falls on the day before a major holiday, firmly skip it; teachers noticing absences will take attendance, they will give extra points to those who show up but won’t deduct points from those who don’t

6. For several well-known easy courses, I won’t say which ones — those who know, know — these almost always take attendance every class and are hard to skip. Bring a laptop and write code in class until the teacher warns you; after a warning you can’t be so obvious, so secretly read your book. I did this — my grade was a bit low, but I didn’t fail; just memorize the key points before the exam

7. Skip various meetings. I skipped squad meetings several times — nothing happened (work meetings at least count as paid time; these meetings are worth nothing)

8. Don’t read XX university study materials

9. Pay high respect to those teachers who turn a blind eye to skipping class — they are the real heroes

10. I wish those who teach the four well-known easy courses can find work they enjoy in the future, rather than a job that makes money by wasting students’ time and polluting their minds.