Do you attend lectures?

[Richie]

I woke up today, lecture at 10 and said to myself is there really any point in going in? I understand you may 'pick up on things' but personally I find it a million times easier to revise alone, so why not use the time wisely and revise notes that are easily accessible online? I'll attend labs as they're marked but lectures are pointless, especially if you have a useless lecturer, well for me anyway. I just feel im wasting my time sat there like a zombie trying to engange when I could be doing far more benificial things.

Do/Did you attend all your lectures at uni?


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[Kyle]

I look at lecture notes available to me first and weigh up my options. Some lecturers use very sparse slides with a few quotes or images so it's essential to go in to get the most out of them, others (worse ones) cram as much as they can on each slide and read through them and it's beneficial but not so essential. Generally I'll print and annotate to add my own thoughts alongside useful additions lecturer has. Yeah I attend most of my lecturers but when I'm feeling rough I know which ones I can afford to miss. People seem to think that because they're not compulsory they're worth missing... Those are the people that don't do very well.

I have 1 at 10 too and I showered at 7 n got back into bed playing poker so productive woo


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[Richie]

I look at lecture notes available to me first and weigh up my options. Some lecturers use very sparse slides with a few quotes or images so it's essential to go in to get the most out of them, others (worse ones) cram as much as they can on each slide and read through them and it's beneficial but not so essential. Generally I'll print and annotate to add my own thoughts alongside useful additions lecturer has. Yeah I attend most of my lecturers but when I'm feeling rough I know which ones I can afford to miss. People seem to think that because they're not compulsory they're worth missing... Those are the people that don't do very well.

I have 1 at 10 too and I showered at 7 n got back into bed playing poker so productive woo


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I don't think it's ideal to miss them but if you aren't taking anything in, at all, surely it's better to revise at home. I get distracted way to easy with people around me and find it hard to sit and listen to someone go on and on about complete malarkey.

I guess it depends how easily one can adapt, I'll still try attend but for now I'd rather catch up on what has been already lectured rather than not have a clue when exams creep up & cram everything in.


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[Chippiewill]

Depends on a variety of factors, including:

- Is the lecturer any good
- Is the lecture content easy to understand
- Is the lecture being recorded (I prefer watching recorded lectures as I can play them back at 2x speed)

So last term I basically went to no lectures and this term I've gone to all but a couple.

[Zak]

I missed a lot of lectures at university and just read the lecture slides after the lecture. I had to drive an hour there and back though .. and when it was just for one lesson it was pretty pointless. Group work was just annoying.

[scottish]

I missed a lot of lectures at university and just read the lecture slides after the lecture. I had to drive an hour there and back though .. and when it was just for one lesson it was pretty pointless. Group work was just annoying.

Same-ish, I was about 30 minute commute and it was just like what's the point driving for 1 hour - 1 hour 30 depending on traffic for a 60 minute lecture when I can just read the notes.

[Inseriousity.]

I went to most of mine during 1st and 2nd year. During 3rd year though, I just had similar feeling as you (I also had an hour commute). No point going in, slides already there. It didn't help that one of my lecturers had the most boring voice I've ever heard in my life. Sent me right off to sleep. Despite that, I think generally you do learn more when you're actually there and powerpoint slides are supposed to be vague and not have all the information on. I also think it helps with critical thinking if someone else explains something in an easier way. You can start connecting the dots and construct arguments better (which helps for essays) in a much more clearer way than if you reading notes alone. There's also the danger you misunderstand something and your essay goes off on a tangent as a result which gets you marked down.

[Alkaz]

I try to go to the majority of mine, last year they all started at 10:30 which is fabulous for me because I have to use HS1 to travel into London and before 9:30 in the morning it costs a small fortune, even with a rail card so the later lecture time means I can travel off-peak. However this year they all start at 10:00 so I had to travel at peak time and my ticket cost £35 which as a student is extremely expensive. So after the first lecture I thought wow that was **** I went to the second one and it was equally as bad so I now only attend lectures during off peak times.

[Alysha]

I had a 9am today, I got showered and everything, but I went back to sleep when I was supposed to leave, so no... Not really ;)

[dbgtz]

I attend where either it's a) monitored, b) crucial to attend or c) is in a cluster of lectures. It takes me ~30 minutes to walk so I don't tend to go in for single lectures.

[FlyingJesus]

I don't have any at the moment but when I do I go to them all because it's a subject that interests me and I like to learn

[velvet]

don't attend uni or anything but will regularly go to lectures about science for fun lol

[AgnesIO]

Yes because I am not paying nine-*******-grand a year to not attend lectures ;l

[welshcake]

Nah, I didn't go in today. I'm a lazy bobba.

[Phil]

When I'm at my house I stay in for college I'm only a four minute walk to college so getting there is never a problem. I haven't missed a single lecture this year except for my day at class rep training I'm such a swat :(

[AgnesIO]

Nah, I didn't go in today. I'm a lazy bobba.

I sense the issue here :L

[Zelda]

not very often no i'm too lazy to go in mornings so far this term there's been 50 lectures and ive been to about 8-10 of them? so that kinda says how bad it is unfortunately i just get furter and further behiind in my work thanks to it but i kinda find the lectures pointless to go to for me anyway cause like 2 of my 4 lecturers write way too fast for me to copy down so i just end up sitting there having to write most of the notes up after the lecture anyway and a furhter one of them writes so illegibly that you can't actually read anything he writes down on the board so it just feels utterly pointless to even go when you could spend that time doing something productive

[Kyle]

not very often no i'm too lazy to go in mornings so far this term there's been 50 lectures and ive been to about 8-10 of them? so that kinda says how bad it is unfortunately i just get furter and further behiind in my work thanks to it but i kinda find the lectures pointless to go to for me anyway cause like 2 of my 4 lecturers write way too fast for me to copy down so i just end up sitting there having to write most of the notes up after the lecture anyway and a furhter one of them writes so illegibly that you can't actually read anything he writes down on the board so it just feels utterly pointless to even go when you could spend that time doing something productive
doing something productive like mining amirite

[Absently]

i try to goto most of them. there'll be some i'll miss because i'm just so exhausted lately and idk what's wrong with me. i find by going to them i understand them better as i like to take down examples and stuff to help me. last semester i a had a monday 9am lecture with a chinese lad whose english wasn't really great and i found it very hard to concentrate as i just couldnt understand him properly so i stopped going to those (the ones i did goto had like max of 40 people out of 270 or something) most of my days are 9am starts so it's awful rly, espec as i've to get up at 7am to drop my bf off at work :'(

[-:Undertaker:-]

I go to them all, and besides we have a register for most.

If I didn't attend them I would be back home 24/7 lmao. Worst three years of my life.

[Inseriousity.]

Nearly there Dan, you can do it.

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[Kardan]

First year - yes.
Second year - mostly.
Third year - hardly.
Fourth year - always.

My first three years for my maths degree didn't monitor attendance, so it was all down to whether it was worth travelling for 40 mins, whether the lecturers were any good etc.

This year attendance is monitored and it's commented on in references - so yeah.

[iBlueBox]

Been into 0 this year so far, prefer to read notes online.

[-:Undertaker:-]

Nearly there Dan, you can do it.

lmao me and two other housemates who hate it keep setting milestones, taking it bit by bit. I've printed off a calendar and put up on the wall just to count down the days as though i'm in a prison. Not long now like, but the fact it's so close is stressing me out JUST END ALREADY. :P I'm not even going to the wannabe American-styled graduation either. I hated the whole experience, and I put minimal effort into it. Plus, do I want to have to return for another day after I have already left? I could not do that.

[j0rd]

not as many as I probably should
I have 4 hours on a tuesday and I haven't been to a single one since october

[UnrealGoffEmo]

Not as have done Uni O.P - but how can you learn or even revise alone, if you don't go to lectures to find out the finer points and the missing bits! Sounds quite pathetic if you ask me - how can you complete a degree etc through a book alone etc - if so wy study at Uni at all - just use the book Lol

[Alysha]

Because you're paying for the degree, to further job prospects. You can't write on a CV, 'Yes, I read this book, now I'm an expert in this field.'

[Kyle]

Degrees aren't taught from a book


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