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...dread personal confrontation, take a deep breath and relax—the Registrar’s office has your back. To drop a course you need not actually tell your professor his or her lectures just aren’t worth your time—simply plead/bargain/bribe a signature out of your freshman/sophomore/concentration advisor and drop your form off to your Resident Dean/FDO/Registrar’s Office...
Flyby’s reason to drop: The 3.2 hour/week estimated workload is a gross underestimate for the average student...
Flyby’s reason to drop: This wasn’t your fault, poor Reader. The syllabus originally only listed two 4-6 page papers under coursework. But now (gasp!) Professor Jeyifo takes attendance, requires weekly web postings, and gives biweekly quizzes. It’s time to "Do the Right Thing" and drop this course. More ideas after the jump...
Flyby’s reason to drop: The first midterm is Tuesday. It is not humanly possible to watch 13.5 hours of lecture videos consecutively. Maybe you should have taken this class more seriously...
Flyby’s reason to drop: Sure it got rave Q reviews, it might even be “the closest to an ‘intellectual journey’ that one may find” at Harvard (Q-response), but if given the choice between sleep and another Kloppenberg reading, you choose sleep, then give this course the boot...