I feel like a complete baby here but I've missed a lot of uni recently due to illness and I emailed my tutor to explain it and assure him that once I'm well again my attendance will improve considerably, and I just got a reply pretty much ignoring my email and just quite sarcastically saying that my grades will probably improve if I stop skiving (didn't say skiving but he implied it). I don't know how other people would react to this but I felt a mixture of embarrassment that he thinks I'm just slacking off and anger, which made me cry - I'm not good dealing with criticism like this! Anyone have similar experiences or advice?