Re: Lies you have told that made you feel really guilty...
yea, the #1 cause of senior death is "grandchild starting freshman year at college" it seems...
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The grandmother dying is one of the oldest college lies. I got the short end of that lie my second year of college. Another student used it earlier in the semester and it turned out to be false. The kid was local and the professor couldn't find the obituary in the paper. D'OH! My grandma died two days before the final and he was an ass about it because of the other kid.
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that sucks that you got the short end of it.
I don't know how common it is across the nation, but most TAs/profs I've known just take a businesslike approach to it and say "that's fine, you can miss class, no worries - plz bring me a copy of the obit / funeral notice when you come back" and treat it like a dr's note kind of thing.
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