Most students have the experience of skipping class due to various kinds of excuses. No matter what the excuse is, almost everyone agree that skipping class is not a proper behavior for the college students, so that it will lead to some serious consequences. In my view, every coin has two sides, and we shall not just focus on one side. Speaking to the behavior of skipping class, objectively, there are two kinds of consequences of it.
Students who choose to skip class may have something more important to do, so that they may success in other field. For example, an engineering major student may be more interested in politics compared to his major. He likes reading books about political science and doing researches instead of having engineering classes. Then he develops his ability of analyzing policies. He felt so good for himself. Day by day, year by year, he learns so much about what he really loved. By the end of the bachelor’s, he may choose to attend the post-graduate school’s entrance examination of the political science major. And there’s a great possibility that he could pass it. After systematical learning, he may finally become a very famous expert of political science. It seems that he gain a lot for skipping class and learn what he really likes.
On the other hand, skipping class may also lead to some serious results. The direct one is that students would fail the subject in the final exam because of skipping class. If one student skipping class frequently for playing computer games, he may waste a lot of time and find him learnt nothing in his college. Then four years passed, he can just get an ordinary job or maybe worse, there is even no job for him. Then there is no doubt that he has little chance to be excellent. His future just be fixed and he could only be a mediocre person all his life.
From what I have listed above, there is one thing I would like to emphasis, skipping class would not just