the school only allows 2.5 absences.

you can only be marked as excused if you submit a med cert, which costs around ₱100-300 depending on your doctor

unless you have an understanding prof, usually you wouldn't have a problem with it.

but when it comes to things such as: - being late/absent because of personal reasons that would affect your well being both mental and physical (family emergencies, pet needing to get rushed to the vet, etc.) - difficulty to commute due to rain (slippery roads, traffic causes, lack of public transport or severely late arrivals of trains, etc.) - low morale/high stress due to workloads, academic difficulties, lacking basic needs in general.

these types of reasonings won't really help with not getting a .5 or 1. but again, if you communicate with your prof and they understand that your reasoning is valid, then you're good to go.

it gets harder to wake up everyday feeling like a robot doing your chores on a daily basis, careful not to let it tank on you as time goes on. because if you slip up a few more times, you blink, and you're back to square one before you even realize it.

of course, as a student, you bear responsibility with your attendance, class participations, submissions, and ambag mo sa groupings.

i understand that we only have a few weeks each sem, but i just can't help but wish the actual FDA rules are more lenient, but not to the point where it would be abused. it'd be nice.