Attendance and study outside of class

Today it is raining very hard. I understand that it may be difficult for some of you to come to class today. However, this morning I was surprised to find that no one (not even one person) wrote anything on his or her blog over the past week; the only new posts were those made during class last week.

There are two things that I would like to say about studying outside of class and about attendance. First, I hope that everyone understands that I do not consider merely coming to class once a week and doing a little bit of study during class time to be sufficient. You should be studying at least a couple of hours outside of class each week in addition to your study in class. Second, attendance in class has been poor. Even those of you who come to class are often coming late and/or watching YouTube or doing other things that are unrelated to this class during class time. I am afraid that the combination of poor attendance and failure to study outside of class will cause some of you to fail this class.

I understand that today is somewhat special because of the bad weather but, overall, I think most of you need to study much harder in this class. Please understand that your blogs must reflect regular study if you wish to get credit for this class and particularly if you want to get a good grade.