Overview: The Best (Really Worst) College Student Excuses of All Time — Introduction to the Article Series
College professors from around the country have offered the most outrageous excuses their students have given for missing a class, a test, or an assignment deadline. In this series of articles, we explore excuses that range from sad to fantastical to yes, some that are inspiring.
This is the introductory article to a series of articles exploring the “best” — well, read that as the worst — excuses offered by college students for missing classes, tests, paper due dates, etc. The basis of the articles has been “crowdsourced,” as college professors from around the country responded to an invitation on social media to share their most memorable excuses offered by their students over the course of their teaching careers. The article series has been compiled and authored by Dr. David C. Wyld, himself a business professor with over thirty years of classroom experience. While prior to this project, he might have thought that he had seen it all, the feedback Dr. Wyld got from hundreds of professors for this series of articles shows just how unlucky, how creative, and yes, sometimes just how…
