How often do you/did you skip lectures at college?

KieranKennedy

I have been improving, but I used to miss more than I actually attended. A lot of my friends are far worse, routinely skipping a couple of days at a time. How often do you skip lectures?

bobcar61

KieranKennedy wrote: »

I have been improving, but I used to miss more than I actually attended. A lot of my friends are far worse, routinely skipping a couple of days at a time. How often do you skip lectures?

I'm meant to be in one right now,think I will go to the next one at 12 though and might skip my 4pm lecture!

gamblitis

Meh about 3 days off a week.If i get some sort of epiphany i might go in all week.

Suppose that explains 4 years done so far for 2 of my course!:-/

Kya1976

I usually made it in to college to 2 lectures a week out of 5:o

javaboy

Paging Degsy to After Hours. That's Degsy to After Hours please.

Sútalún

Not very many at all.
I was supposed to go to a lot more this year but hasn't really happened.
I have good weeks and bad ones..
I sound like a frickin addict!!

At the start of the year I was'nt missing nay lectures but now with house hunting and being sick lately I've missed a few. Starting tomorrow though I'm going to try attending all my lectures including photography which atm is a joke of a module.

Mimikyu

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Caoimhín

I skipped/missed very few lectures. I was however, outrageously drunk at a few.

CyrildoSquirrel

College??!

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Seriously though, I'm sure it'll all work out...

jester77

Skipping lectures during a recession :eek:

Heisenberg.

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Dave!

I rarely miss lectures. But as a coincidence, today just so happens to be a day that I decided not to go into college at all And I feel guilty about it!

I miss tutorials and seminars fairly often though

gamblitis

javaboy wrote: »

Paging Degsy to After Hours. That's Degsy to After Hours please.

Good God! We're in for it now!

Dudess

Undergrad: apart from the early morning ones (moreso on Mondays, Tuesdays and Fridays), I was pretty darn diligent.

Postgrad: very rarely skipped lectures.

Wagon

All time time which was bad seeing as how we had continuous assessment. Ddi well enough in the actual exams so i got away with it

Mimikyu

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whatawaster

I went whole semesters in college without going to a lecture. I'd have forgotten it all by exam time anyway so i decided to just learn everything then.

Caoimhín

Caoimhín wrote: »

I skipped/missed very few lectures. I was however, outrageously drunk at a few.

Ah yes, the good old drunk off your tits argueing why Death Race is a better film than Citizen Cane at 9.30 on a Monday morning.

titan18

I missed about 1 so far since September

KieranKennedy

-Phuqer- wrote: »

The morning ones are horrible. I could go to work at 9 and be grand but it's just pointless going to college at that time. Can't concentrate at all and just fall asleep.

I had a nine o clock lecture every thursday last semester. On one such days (after a night in town) the lecturer spent the last 20 minutes testing us on what we had just covered in the lecture. I was surprised to find out that I basically couldn't answer any of the questions, and it was then that I realised that it is possible to miss a lecture even when you are in the room that it is happening in. A valueble lesson, because now when I wake up and feel a bit tired I remind myself that I am better off not getting up, because I won't remember anything that happens anyway. I also apply this reasoning when I have a headache, when its raining, when I start reading a book before I get up, when I feel like watching top gear.....

jimbling

When I was in 3rd year in college (Computer Science in UCC) I went to 9 lectures for the entire year. I got a 2h1. :rolleyes:

Edgedinblue

i used to be really good at going to college last year, hardly missed a day. this year on the other hand im lucky if i go in once a week!

fluffysierra

When I was in CIT, I rarely missed lectures. Over 3 yrs I'd say 90% attendance. In a university now and I'd say I've dropped to about 75% but that's one of the highest in the class. Many a lecture last year I was the only person from my course in a lecture :eek:

thelordofcheese

Deleted User wrote: »

Ah yes, the good old drunk off your tits argueing why Death Race is a better film than Citizen Cane at 9.30 on a Monday morning.

But death race IS a better film than citizen cane!

thelordofcheese

thelordofcheese wrote: »

But death race IS a better film than citizen cane!

I know that but no one else agreed with me. Went so far as to have people questioning why I was there as I "obviously know nothing about cinema and would be better suited working in Mcdonalds". Oh how their faces fell when I informed them that of all us including the lecturer I was the only one there ever hired to write for actual film studios.

Mimikyu

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giddybootz

Ha ha oh lordy i basically never went to classes in college...i would say it would average out at maybe 2 a week??!! i did occasionally have a good week! usually the first week of term while i would promise myself i would be good 'this semester'!!!

however my mates and i did manage to make it into the college bar/canteen everyday (most of us lived with our folks so had to pretend we were off to college) to doss about!!

still managed to get an honours degree!!

PaulieBoy

The quicker full time fees are brought back the better!
You place a very low value on that which is free.
I did four years part-time, one day and two nights a week.
Never missed one lecture. I am in my second year on another course ( two nights a week), not missed one lecture yet.
But then I pay through the nose in hard cash for the right, so I do value it.

piby

In first year I'd say I skipped 80-90% of my lectures to do more productive things such as watch 'Quantum Leap' (Insert any other generic 80's series here) or play Football Manager 06! Add that to the many, many hangovers and well you can see my point. I've been steadily improving over the last couple of years to the point that now in my 4th and final year I'm going to 80-90% of my lectures

Sherifu

1st year, skipped a fair bit.(20-30%) Covering old ground. Less and less in the following years.

giddybootz

PaulieBoy wrote: »

The quicker full time fees are brought back the better!
You place a very low value on that which is free.
But then I pay through the nose in hard cash for the right, so I do value it.

i also paid....i was just baaaad! i do find that PT students are much better at going to classes. my OH was terrible for skipping classes until he started doing his degree part time....now he never misses classes.

PaulieBoy

PaulieBoy wrote: »

The quicker full time fees are brought back the better!
You place a very low value on that which is free.
I did four years part-time, one day and two nights a week.
Never missed one lecture. I am in my second year on another course ( two nights a week), not missed one lecture yet.
But then I pay through the nose in hard cash for the right, so I do value it.

There's a big difference between going to 2 lectures at night and 1 during the day and the 9.30-4.30 day that I have 5 days a week. We get two half days a week but when you include the various assingments that we have I end up doing nearly 40 hours a week some weeks.

sunnyside

PaulieBoy wrote: »

The quicker full time fees are brought back the better!
You place a very low value on that which is free.
I did four years part-time, one day and two nights a week.
Never missed one lecture. I am in my second year on another course ( two nights a week), not missed one lecture yet.
But then I pay through the nose in hard cash for the right, so I do value it.

I agree. The fe1 law lectures at Griffith college are all video recorded and are available to watch online via the college website. I think it's the way of the future.....watching lectures on the laptop in bed.

Deleted User wrote: »

but when you include the various assingments that we have I end up doing nearly 40 hours a week some weeks.

That's the best way to do really well in college, treat it exactly as you would a full time job. Not that I ever took that advice myself, I'm not very disciplined.

griffdaddy

1st and 2nd year skipped about 20-30% i'd say, then 3rd year i went on Erasmus to Holland, and tried the same malarkey, didn't work there at all. If you missed more than 3 classes you could fail the class by default, unless you had a proper excuse. That changed my habit and now that i'm back in UCD i miss 1 or 2 at most a week. Only one more semester though, then i'm on the hallowed dole!!!

stovelid

Quite a few, I had a part-time job and a demanding social schedule back then.

petethebrick

Probably missed about 60/70 % over my four years doing computer science. There were some modules I never attended. You could just print off all the lecture notes to study every May. Regret it now though as I just missed out on a 2.1 ( I got 60% and it was 62% then). If I had done just the minimum I could have gotten it.
Went back to do a masters last year and attended probably 95%+ . We learn from our mistakes I suppose. Ended up with a 1.1 so it goes to show that maybe attendance does pay off.

zach morris

hmm, definitely too much considering what I do while I'm missing classes. Which is absolutely nothing by the way.

rain on

First year: 100% attendance
Second year: I'd say about 90%
Final year: About 90%

MA: 100% attendance (if you can't make it to three classes a week you might as well not bother)

MBS: required 80% attendance, I think I just about scraped that.

Strangely enough my results peaked around the MA point.

BnA

I went to about half my lectures in first year and from then on went to less and less as the years went on. In 4th year, during the entire year, I went to about 5. In first year I was just a lazy a55 staying in bed, but by 4th year it was a decision I made. I would get out of bed and go to college, but I would go to the library or computer labs and work on projects essays etc. or study for exams. The notes for most courses were printed up at the start of the year and could be bought. I didn't see the value in spending a few hours a day listening to someone else read them for me.

I did go to a few tutorials though, especially coming close to exams when they would be covering past papers.

ReacherCreature

Simply have to go to lectures and tutorials!
I'll feel terribly guilty if I don't. :rolleyes:

Holsten

First year I barely went in and barely passed, improved since then, go in most days now.

Sea Sharp

Usually make it in for the evenings. 9AM lectures. pfft, GTFO.

prendy

first year i did okayish, maybe 60%. never fridays.
3rd year was ok aswell as we had a lot of projects and stuff that required class attendence.
2nd and final year was an abso pi55 take maybe 10-15%, didnt see the point in attending a class when the notes were available on-line to study when exams rolled around. still got my 2.1 though!

i enjoyed college and dont regret a thing.

elmolesto

I skipped college alltogether.

offaly1

Skipped Lectures all too often when was in college!!!! God how i was so bold!:D

McGrath5

Missed a lot of 3rd year to improve my skills on pro evolution soccer 6, was worth it

pakblue

1st year - I missed lectures, labs and tutorials left right and center and was out almost every night. I was more concerned with trying to make my way into the uni 1st soccer team and keeping my fitness up. Had a few repeats as a result of never being in and when I got into 2nd year a lot of people were shocked that I managed to do so.

2nd year - Made more of an effort I rarely missed labs and tutorials but still missed a lot of lectures. I would skip most of Monday and Tuesday and then I wouldn’t be in on a Friday. If I did go to lectures were the lecturer didn’t use moodle (ie were I needed to take notes) I would just sit around and look at the opposite sex :cool: but I wasn’t out as much about once a week and every few weeks I would go out twice. Did enough to have no repeats.

3rd year - This was my timetable for the 1st semester and I made all most every lecture and lab expect for the 9am on Monday and Tuesday and CS351 when ever that was on. I was out every Thursday night and I would turn up an hour late for my lab on Friday then sign the attendance sheet and mess around on youtube, thank god we got no marks for the labs for that module. 2nd semester I meant to be on a placement but I have yet to find a place to employee me don’t think my low grades are helping me what so ever.

4th year - ? Should make more of an effort but I have no labs and only about 10 hours a week.

Ostrom

KieranKennedy wrote: »

I have been improving, but I used to miss more than I actually attended. A lot of my friends are far worse, routinely skipping a couple of days at a time. How often do you skip lectures?

None, apart from one or two when I broke my leg; I loved my subject.

Now stop wasting my tax money you bum.

Sephiroth_dude

I was'nt too from september to december,but from january to may I did skip a good few and got real lazy,thats probbly why I failed the course

deleriumtremens

Shhhhh!!! Shut the f'uck up everyone! If Brian Cowen happens to go on boards and reads all your posts he'l bring back the fees!!