A normal day in the life of Sindy
In some logic defying zones of the world such as Anna University affiliated colleges, marks are awarded for your esteemed presence in class. You could sleep through the 7 hrs for all your teachers care. Your form must be present, this is all they ask. Sometimes 1 mark can make such a difference to your life. 1 Mark can save you from the throes of 'the marked ' students(arreared lot). It can save you a semester's worth of peace and promise. Your peers will not sneer at you, your parents will not speak to you with a disgusted air, your profs will not pick on you and so on.Attendance is worth 5 marks. Easiest thing in the world. Just sit through every class every working day and you get 5 marks. HHmmph..you think!
Here's an account of how far one could go for getting marked present in those conspicuous yellow books.

7.04AM The subject rolls over, digs out a harrased alarm clock from under layers of pillows, sheets and books. Her eyes widen,graceful brows raise slowly...
7.08AM Subject remains immobilized, owing to the torrent of incoherent emotions and the crashing of cymbals within her form..
7.10AM Subject resigns to the fact that her college bus would've pulled off by now. She'll have to bunk the day again. She swears, gives a venomous look at the now trembling clock and goes right back to sleep...
7.20AM [Nokia Tune]
Subject wakes up with a start. Subject's bus mate on the phone, reminds subject about her acrid attendance. Tells off subject, urges her to get to college somehow and hangs up.
7.40 AM Subject has managed to step out of the house, a veritable accomplishment in under 10 minutes, in one piece. Now we wonder, how exactly will she get to college. Available Options are:
a. Metropolitan Bus
b. Call Taxi

A laughable situation. Easily a. is the right answer on account of the charges. But the subject as we know by now, is one of those rationally challenged kinds. Subject goes to the bus terminus, where she is told that the next bus to SriPerumbudur leaves in 20min.
7.50:Miss future decision maker, decides that 20 minutes will cost her dearly. So she takes the first cab and reaches destination a few minutes after her friend on the bus.
9.10AM:Ecstatic at her achievement she tries to ignore the five grand that she had to dish out to the cabbie. Attends her first class, is unable to concentrate owing to 500 rupee notes swishing around in her mind's eye.
10.00 AM Subject is enters her second hour class. Is greeted with applause and a standing ovation. They have apparently 'heard'.
10.45 Subject gets up to grab a bite at the canteen.. Is pushed down by fellows.."Sit down.. Sit down!"

[ the remaining 2 hrs have to be bunked. Its imperative. Subject does not wish to explain the context and gives complete rights to the readers to deduce their own conclusions]

1.15 PM: Subject is certain nothing can go wrong for the rest of the day. And why not. The rest of the afternoon is about to be spent in an air conditioned lab with comfy chairs. Its only compiler lab. Just kut-kaapi-paste..
2.00 PM Subject has managed to get both assigned programs output verified. And why not. The other batch has brilliant coders. And such humanitarian souls. They never bother to lock their ids.
2.05 PM Still cannot believe her good luck.
2.06 PM: "SINDUJA, please come here.", thunders the egomaniacal sub- assistant lecturer cum lab guide.
2.45PM: Subject has tried to explain that the code was her own. "The source cannot be found", she says. "Its wholly possible that everyone else copied my code." Laughable as this sounds, she has a point. Afore mentioned egocentric lect thumps her desk. She commends herself on her accomplishment. Her 5th victim this week( one every day). Refuses to mark subject as present for the rest of the afternoon.

Moral of the story: If you want to bunk, decide the previous night. If it can't be helped, accept your fate and stay at home where you will be safe from crazy fares and lunatic lects. Attendance is not worth one month's allowance.