

But, at what point do you leave? An evil professor could always wait for 59 minutes before poking his head into the empty classroom and counting everyone as absent. If a class was an hour long, and the professor didn't show up for 55 minutes, it would be common sense to leave by that point. So how long do you wait before the professor should no longer be able to show up and not give the daily "attendance credit" for absent students? Graduating 26 of students, El Paso Community College alumni go on to earn a starting salary of 22,000. Popular majors include Liberal Arts and Humanities, Business, and Criminal Justice and Safety Studies. Professors are much more likely to bump a high D grade to a low C if they see that you have been to every lecture (at least in my experience). The El Paso Community College acceptance rate is 100. And it can be a good idea to attend as many classes as possible to show that you are putting forth effort. Some classes will fail you after a certain number of absences and others will calculate 5% of your final grade from the percentage of lectures you attended. Is there any evidence that this was once an actual rule put in place by a university, or academic governing body? Was this ever anything more than a "rule" put it in place by impatient students?

The PhD part seems silly, but after hearing some version of this "rule", or "myth", so many times, I wonder if it has some backing.

Some of my classmates have said that the 15 minute rule is only for professors without PhD's, and that you must wait at least 20 (and up to 30) minutes for professors that do have PhD's. I've heard that you should wait 15 minutes for a professor who is late to a class, before leaving.
