I'm not usually one to use this space to gripe, but I just finished running writing group workshops in 102, where each student is supposed to come in having read and commented on the other papers in their group.

Why, then, was 20% of the class missing?

Oh dear student, it may in fact be that you don't care about whether or not you've gotten that feedback. And it may be that you don't even need it (which I doubt). It may even be that you are not confident in your own commenting abilities.

But you are short-shrifting classmates who spent the time necessary to comment on your writing, and completely disrespecting them by not giving them what they had prepared for you.

I hope that you noticed (or heard when I announced in class) that not coming prepared for a workshop activity earns a letter grade penalty on your paper. Because I will apply it. Oh yes.