Guest Post by VIRAJ KAFLE

It is a common sight to see professors today wandering through the corridors of our premier universities with a look of quiet desperation, but they should instead be offering prayers of thanks to the students who never show up. We have reached a peak of administrative efficiency where the traditional classroom, built to house a modest forty souls, is now legally mandated to accommodate sixty or even eighty. This logistical miracle, where two bodies are expected to occupy the space of one, is only possible because of the profound civic duty exercised by the truant. By choosing the comfort of their beds over the cramped benches of the lecture hall, these absent students prevent a literal stampede. They are the only thing standing between a smooth seminar and a public health crisis.

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