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Originally posted by IowaHawkeye
you really haven't gone to this one class much all semester so you have no lecture notes. and you haven't really kept up on your reading as well as you should have...
do you email the professor for mercy 
do you say screw it and do your studying at the bar?
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Speaking from the professor standpoint - if you haven't been to class, AND, the instructor knows you haven't been to class - there isn't much point in asking for mercy. I wouldn't give it, unless I knew the student had been attending, and participating in class.
If it's one of the "lecture mill" 200+ students, you might be OK.
See, attendance is one of the "intangibles" that professors can use for "borderline" grades.
And by the way, it's better to ask for mercy face to face, not in an anonymous email...