Friday and Saturday could best be described for many Ohio State students with two words: road trip.
Some students packed up and headed out to New Orleans for tonight's National Championship Game Friday evening, and others left as early as Thursday. But classes will still be held today and professors are not required to excuse absences.
Tom Myers, a junior in human nutrition, said he and his roommate, Zach Macqueen, would travel to New Orleans Friday night.
Myers said he did not have time to speak with his professors about the missed Monday classes because the decision to drive to the game was "out of the blue." Yet Myers said he does not believe he will have any problems with academics.
"My professors will be pretty cool about it," Myers said. "I went last year and all my professors were fine. I had no problems."
Other students said their professors were willing to excuse students attending the game. According to the Department of Athletics' document titled "Class Attendance and BCS Game," the choice to excuse students and allow for make-up is up to each individual instructor.
Courtney Malinowski, a senior in biology, said she would leave Saturday night to New Orleans to watch the game. As a member of Block O, she managed to travel to both the Michigan and Purdue games.
Malinowski, who is taking a 19 credit course load, said she has two in-class assignments and participation points she will miss today that she will not be able to make up.
Yet Malinowski said she was most concerned about the two labs she would miss for her organic chemistry and biology classes on Tuesday. Both her instructors would allow her to make-up the missed labs.
"My teachers were really understanding about it," she said. "It would be great if the university canceled classes for that day. But I understand it's a short quarter."
She said the decision to attend the game is just another decision each student must make.
"It was important to me (to attend the game) because it's my last year."
Ingrid Rivera can be reached at rivera.153@osu.edu.
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