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Excuses. Excuses.


On the front page of the AdjunctNation.com site, there is a feature called The Daily Excuse. AdjunctNation.com Family members can log in and leave their best student excuses. Those excuses rotate on the front page. I thought it might be fund to post a longer list of the excuses that have been submitted. The names beside the excuses are of the individual who submitted the excuse.  Enjoy the list, and to submit your own student excuses, click here to log in to your account, and then add your classic to the list. You may submit as many as you like, but only the best of the best get chosen. If yours does, it will rotate along with the rest of the daily excuses submitted.

I didn’t turn in my paper because my flash drive went through the washing machine. Hannah Sigur

I can’t read cursive. Carrie Finn

I cannot take the final exam on that date 4 months from now. My grandmother’s funeral will be on that day. Jim Harnish

I didn’t know that the final draft of my essay was supposed to be typed. Deborah Cunningham

I had a car accident and had to wait for the

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2 Comments for “Excuses. Excuses.”

  1. apparently a lot of the humor is very entertaining, thank

  2. Many of these are funny, and many are obviously made-up excuses.

    However, unexpected and unwelcome events do happen. College instructors need to develop a good b.s. detector, and they need to have compassion.

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