Professors Are Sharing The Wildest Excuses Students Have Ever Told Them, Now “My Dog Ate My Homework” Doesn’t Sound That Bad
August 22, 2025
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“I had a student, whom we’ll call Sally. After only attending one week of my class, Sally stopped showing up. When I followed up via email, Sally said she was in the hospital with ovarian cancer. She then divulged that her mother died last year on her birthday — also from ovarian cancer — so she also gets really depressed around ‘this time of year.’ It was…