I was supposed to take an exam at 8:30 am in the morning today, but my phone which was fully charged and plugged in decided to completely die over night, how? I have no idea.
I woke up at around 10:00 am and noticed how bright my room was, I quickly tried looking at my phone to see the time and noticed it was off. Yep, I have missed a nursing exam! I felt sick to my stomach and started panicking.
The very thing I immediately did was explain my situation honestly to my instructor and what happened. Our Syllabus policy states that we are able to make up an exam with a VALID excuse before the test, but I of course decided to be honest, and well, guess what? I was denied my exam and got a big fat 0.
So I pretty much lost a letter grade.
Anyway, I know the instructors will tell you to be honest all the time, but in situations like mine, you should lie.
She even encouraged me drop out of nursing school, even though I got A's on my last two exams. I can still make a B if I worked hard, but I can't believe she would encourage that.
Oversleeping because your phone broke thus being unable to test is the same as not being able to take the test due to the car breaking. My point is that we all should judge less.
And MY point was that the OP should change his profile picture.
Oversleeping because your phone broke thus being unable to test is the same as not being able to take the test due to the car breaking. My point is that we all should judge less.
The difference here being that an additional alarm clock doesn't require a loan as a car would.
I'm usually up by 5 am. I think my body would be crazy confused by me sleeping later than 10 am. I'm not sure if I'm even capable of it anymore.
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Maybe if the OP was able to get ahold of his professor before he got to class she would've been more forgiving. But since he didn't/couldn't call his school, it looks worse. I will definitely be investing in a separate alarm clock when I get into a nursing program. You can't depend on your phone for everything & this is a great example.
I agree that the OP should change his picture. I'm pretty sure I could enter the picture into google picture search & find more info on him. With his given screen name & strong opinion to lie, his school & future employers won't be so happy. Which can prevent him from getting a job. This is not Facebook.
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Your logic makes no sense. You have insurance for your car & home. What insurance is there for your phone. Plus I'm sure his teacher was upset because no contact was made until he got to school. If you were running late, would you just wait until you got to work to say something or try to get ahold of your boss?
Your logic makes no sense. You have insurance for your car & home. What insurance is there for your phone. Plus I'm sure his teacher was upset because no contact was made until he got to school. If you were running late, would you just wait until you got to work to say something or try to get ahold of your boss?
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You realize you're the only one taking that stance. I never said it would, but at least you could get a rental/help with your home. Plus those two are valid excuses. Who would have another house/car? You can have a back up & back up alarm. OP just needs to realize telling the truth is a good thing but there is a difference between the truth & validity.
Whether I think the excuse is valid doesn't matter. What matters is whether your instructor thought that it was a valid excuse, and clearly she did not. I'd guess that's because you're not the first student to use the Alarm excuse...in fact, I'm sure the instructor has heard it so often that she's become quite jaded.
And to be honest, I don't see how arguing it with the instructor or lodging an appeal would do anything for you. The fact is that you were not at the test at the appointed time, and you've used an excuse that--while it may be true in your case--has been used and abused so often that it no longer carries any weight. It ranks right up there with, "the dog ate my homework."
I'm sorry...it may not seem fair, but it is what happened.
Hopefully you can make up enough ground in the rest of the course to pass the class. And definitely invest in a backup alarm system.
Yeah, you should have just lied by stating you were up most of the night vomiting after eating something new or some old sandwich-something. Therefore you slept in. What I would have done was contact the lead instructor via email and then returned to school the next day.
You have to be creative and also realize you are only human. People make mistakes, things happen for unexplained reasons. Trying to rationalize them to others makes it only seem like you are trying to prove your incense as if you were guilty to begin with. Always keep the "cure" is sometimes worse than the disease. In this case trying to tell the truth, do the right thing, did not benefit you.
I have a feeling it was partially because how easy it is to blame technology. Its like the dog ate my homework excuse. Even if it does happen (which it did to me once), who is really going to believe you?
I had a friend who slept in on clinical, lied and said his car didn't start because it wast too cold. Ended up getting a ride from someone else. I come to find the whole situation was a very nicely crafted lie to excuse himself for sleeping in. To this day they don't know.
Specializes in M/S, LTC, Corrections, PDN & drug rehab.
Yes people make mistakes but lying to a teacher or employer I would not recommend. In that case they didn't find out, but if they did I bet that person would be in even bigger trouble than if they just told the truth in the first place.
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And MY point was that the OP should change his profile picture.