To the Editor:
In response to the April 17 article “Busy schedules, boring lectures drive students to skip classes”: As a student commuting to school in London many years ago, I was dependent on train service. When there was a train strike, I rode my bike more than 20 miles each way through rough traffic until I ran into a fellow villager whose dad was giving her a car ride to her college — he worked nearby — and could squeeze in one more. I couldn’t think of missing classes: It was close to finals, there were no make-ups and I was on scholarship. With all that, I felt I had a responsibility to get there. The strike went on long enough that the rails went rusty.
Peter Richardson
Professor of Engineering and Physiology
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