On NUIG and attendence

Attendance is much more lax here than at Madison. Both have decent sized classes, though here they don't get much over a couple hundred at biggest. But all it takes is big enough classes that the professor doesn't know you by name and notice if you come or not for people to feel comfortable ditching. So attendance in big classes is bad. And even more so than at Madison. I think this is because attendance in general is very casual; I hear people all the time ask friends if they made it to any classes the week before. The WEEK before. And more often than not they'll admit "no, I only hit two or three." From the WEEK. I go to every class, but then, I like to do well too. In my botany class, there are about 100 of us total (99 last I heard). On Mondays we get about 60 people, since most are filtering in from their weekends away. On Tuesday we get about 70 (roughly), and on Thursday we are lucky if we get over 30. Last Thursday, after Halloween, there were 15 of us. Out of 100. So attendance is casual.