Welcome to the Land of Ridiculous

Ok, so I've been trying my hardest to plan a week trip to see Kate. Despite the entire summer off, Kate doesn't have any PTO during the summer, so I've been attempting alternate arrangements. One of the most plausible alternate arrangements is for me to go during school spring break.

Well, unfortunately, the college doesn't coordinate spring break with the school system. Idiots. So I figure hey, I've had this one professor, I'm certain she will accomadate me. And the other class is only a once a weeker, so that shouldn't be a problem.

Wrong. This lame professor seems to think that, despite the fact I'm spending a wealth of money to pay her and the college to educate me, that she needs to further encourage me to attend class by implementing riduculous attendance policies. She's giving us one "free" day off. but she won't accept our homework if we're out. But it gets BETTER. If we miss more than one (i.e. TWO or more) classes, we begin losing a letter grade EVERY TIME we miss a class (so say I go to see Kate for a week, then get the Typhoid fever and miss another class, I can then get NO HIGHER than a B regardless of my classwork).

Does this strike anyone else as ridiculous, or is it just me? And I know the chances of me getting sick and missing a class other than the one I'd need for my sanity vacation, but this strigent of an attendance policy drives me mad. I NEVER MISS CLASS. I think I'm entitled to some leniency, sheesh. I paid the college twice what an undergraduate pays to get into this undergraduate class, SO I THINK SOMEONE OWES ME AN EXTRA DAY OFF JUST IN CASE I NEED IT.