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.