missing lectures

lateasever

i personally never go to lectures. whats the point? bit of cramming in april and your guaranteed to pass. no problem. unless your an idiot. and i mean that aswell

im spending my time having fun. cos this is the time. you ll be working all your freakin life.

some people dont get that.

anyways i dont have much time for those worry heads that think missing a lecture makes the sky fall. have fun scribbling those notes. ill be in the bar. and trust me, ill still do better than ya.

Mr.Nice Guy

I've missed loads of lectures and I'm pretty worried about that fact.You though don't seem worried at all so your post has cheered me up a bit!

rainbow kirby

I miss a lot of lectures too... Either I'm just feeling lazy or I sleep late for early lectures.
I find some just horribly boring or the lecturers are just plain bad.
However, it's not a good idea to miss too many (no matter what the original poster says and I found this out the hard way last year ), and if you do miss them make sure you get the notes...

ApeXaviour

Mind if I ask what course you do and what year you're in lateasever?

joe.

1st year arts maynooth my guess

ApeXaviour

lol.. It'd have to be.
I'll be honest, I miss a lot of lectures as well. But it takes a lot of study to keep up with them (I'm 3rd year physics btw). Lectures don't do much for me personally as I can never follow the lecturer's train of thought. I've found can only really learn on an independent basis. As far as only cramming near the end of term is concerned, (I can only speak for sci/eng like subjects) it only works in 1st year. After that you're completely screwed if try it.

OfflerCrocGod

I go to every single lecture, for four years in a row.

Red Alert

Yeah i usually end up going in even when i'm severely hung over!

Chinafoot

lateasever wrote:

i personally never go to lectures. whats the point? bit of cramming in april and your guaranteed to pass. no problem. unless your an idiot. and i mean that aswell

im spending my time having fun. cos this is the time. you ll be working all your freakin life.

some people dont get that.

anyways i dont have much time for those worry heads that think missing a lecture makes the sky fall. have fun scribbling those notes. ill be in the bar. and trust me, ill still do better than ya.

sorry but that whole post really made me laugh. you may not go to lectures but im pretty sure you get the notes off somebody else.....may aswell be at the lecture instead of expecting someone else to do the work. how else would you do better than the rest of us?? natural genius yea?

well im quite content to actually go to my classes (obviously miss one or two here and there....it does take me the guts of 2 hours to get to college afterall!) and do well. but whatever floats your boat.

blondie83

I'm missing one right now I woke up too late this morning and didn't make it in in time. I miss loads but I really don't like it cos I always feel like I'm going to miss something important by not being there. Also, depending on the format of the lecture you might actually have a chance of taking something in in them!

Sangre

I have 11 lectures a week and I still miss a load
Was much better last year, ah well.

monster_fighter

GO TO YOUR LEACTURES' - seriously, it makes a huge difference when it comes to knowing what to study at the end of the year.

I also found out the hard way.

Stabshauptmann

I may get my glasses fixed cos Im seeing trolls everywhere....
"Ill do better than all of yeah cos Im too cool for school".

Seriously though, I hate continuous assessment, the pressure might be smaller but its continuous, find myself goin to too many lectures

tribulus

Im in at 9 every day and takes me a good hour and a half to get to college
so as a result i miss quite a few lectures.

I think if you're struggling at a subject you really should make as many lecs as possible even if it's boring for you, otherwise you're in trouble when the exams come around.

i found that out at xmas by failing maths :mad:

orangerooster

I missed a whole load of lectures in the run up to christmas even though I only have twelve a week.I felt like **** cause I didnt have a clue now I go to lectures and feel as if passing is an attainable goal that and I've discovered I get to to do almost as much of the fun stuff I did while missing lectures anyway.

Mr.Nice Guy

blondie83 wrote:

I'm missing one right now I woke up too late this morning and didn't make it in in time. I miss loads but I really don't like it cos I always feel like I'm going to miss something important by not being there. Also, depending on the format of the lecture you might actually have a chance of taking something in in them!

I had a lecture at 10 this morning and I was in bed when you made this post!
Exams are a long way away,right?Right?

besty

yea, dont worry, exams are ages away. (someone back this up to make me feel ok that i dont have a clue about nearly alll my subjects.)

Jonny Arson

I've missed my last five lectures over the last three days! Bring on the Autumn exams!

joe.

your all screwed

Mr.Nice Guy

joe. wrote:

your all screwed

Yep.

besty

i wouldnt say we are all screwed. if you study smart, you will be fine.

Mr.Nice Guy

besty wrote:

i wouldnt say we are all screwed. if you study smart, you will be fine.

I had two lectures and two tutorials today.I missed them all as I was asleep so I hope you're right!

pbsuxok1znja4r

Zane from MTV2 wrote:

I've missed my last five lectures over the last three days! Bring on the Autumn exams!

Well I missed 12 lectures last week. I went to a grand total of 3 lectures for the whole week. On wednesday the only reason I even came in was to play football! See you in august!

Jonny Arson

scouser.tommy wrote:

Well I missed 12 lectures last week. I went to a grand total of 3 lectures for the whole week. On wednesday the only reason I even came in was to play football! See you in august!

Bizarrely I have attended my first 5 lectures so far this week but I haven't learned a thing from those 5 lectures so I still will be putting exams into the August section of my diary!

Long live not doing a frickin' thing!!

Seifer

Through an unfortunate set of events (involving drink) I missed all my lectures yesterday (6) and my first 3 today. Only attending my mandatory computer practical at 2:00pm.
I was lazy before christmas but I thought the xmas exams would scare me straight but since I did alright, Ive gotten even lazier!

theCzar

i'd say i miss 10 or less a year, and i have 11/week (13 exams, i'm in 4th Elec Eng).

I hope you all fail.

This in no small part due to my living 15 mins cycle away, and that i live at home so i get rudely awoken if i try and sleep in.

For me, and i would guess for Eng in general, it makes things much easier come easter if you've attended all the lectures, I tend to absorb more than i think...

Mr.Nice Guy

I missed my 10.00 lecture today and I came in late for my 3 o'clock tutorial.
Still,I had plenty of time to get myself a snazzy new haircut so look out ladies!I might need to study alot but I'll not be studying on Valentine's.

Jonny Arson

Mr.Nice Guy wrote:

I missed my 10.00 lecture today and I came in late for my 3 o'clock tutorial.
Still,I had plenty of time to get myself a snazzy new haircut so look out ladies!I might need to study alot but I'll not be studying on Valentine's.

So how many ladies do you intend to shag on Valentines?

Mr.Nice Guy

Zane from MTV2 wrote:

So how many ladies do you intend to shag on Valentines?

Mr Nice Guy would settle for a Miss Nice Girl as long as she had plenty of money.

Jonny Arson

Ok lets stick to the thread. Just out of interest, what on average is the lecture attendance for you guys lectures in your respective subjects?

Now I attend roughly about 80% of my lectures, sometimes I can go 3 weeks without missing one then I can a have a week where I'll miss about half, so on and so forth. It just hit me today how woeful lecture attendance in my subjects. I'm a first year Arts student and I've noticed that on average the lecture attendance in two of my subjects are half full. There are lots of people who only maybe attend one lecture every two weeks. Some people also maybe only attend a tutorial every four weeks or so.

I think this is very worrying because the way things are going there is definitely a huge failure rate in first year Arts. Maybe the problem is that lectures are not useful and studying in your own time is more vital? Is going to lectures really the be all and end all as it is made out to be?

Mr.Nice Guy

Zane from MTV2 wrote:

Ok lets stick to the thread. Just out of interest, what on average is the lecture attendance for you guys lectures in your respective subjects?

Lately there's been a very low turnout for lectures.Today I would say the highest lecture attendance would have been about 66% which is pretty shocking.

Slash/ED

Zane from MTV2 wrote:

Is going to lectures really the be all and end all as it is made out to be?

I don't think anyone has ever tried to make it out to be the be all and end all tbf.

m1ke

I'd say if you're not getting to about 80pc of your lectures, your grades will start to suffer, and if you don't go to any you're definitely going to miss something important sooner or later. But some people like an excuse to fall back on incase they fail.

mind_problems

i always go to lecturers really because when the lecturer is grading your exams at the end of the year he can look back over your attendence and if you are a couple of points below passing and he sees you have shown a good interest in his class throughout the year then he will problady push up your points those extra few....true?

tribulus

In 1st science(common entry) maths is compulsory so thats all 400 or so 1st years. Yet at any given lecture, particularly the two 9am ones you'd be lucky to count more than 100-150 people there. :eek:

uberwolf

tribulus wrote:

In 1st science(common entry) maths is compulsory so thats all 400 or so 1st years. Yet at any given lecture, particularly the two 9am ones you'd be lucky to count more than 100-150 people there. :eek:

hehe those were the days

Mr.Nice Guy

mind_problems wrote:

i always go to lecturers really because when the lecturer is grading your exams at the end of the year he can look back over your attendence and if you are a couple of points below passing and he sees you have shown a good interest in his class throughout the year then he will problady push up your points those extra few....true?

How would the lecturer know you had turned up if you are in with around 400 other people?

rainbow kirby

tribulus wrote:

In 1st science(common entry) maths is compulsory so thats all 400 or so 1st years. Yet at any given lecture, particularly the two 9am ones you'd be lucky to count more than 100-150 people there. :eek:

Isn't there 3 classes though? (2 pass classes and 1 honours, which only has about 70 people in it?)

tribulus

yeah ther's a higher class but i'd say it's only about 50 in it and the two pass classes were merged together prob cus attendance is so sh1t!!!

The only lectures wherre attendance is taken is chemistry so the whole thing about lecturers seeing we took an interest in their topics doesn't apply really dunno whether thats good or bad

rainbow kirby

I can see why they do it with chem though, 3 9am's a week? Nobody's gonna go otherwise.

Brerrabbit

feckin chemistry, though in fairness to the department I think they do take into account your attendance; I got 40% in first year chemistry and as I sucked scrotum at chemistry (didn't do it in the leaving, only did it as a prequisite for my next years study) I think they must have taken into account that I had attended (almost) every lecture, every tutorial (and supplementary tutorial) and every practical. Looking back I really, really hate chemistry.

Going to your lectures makes a BIG difference. In first and second year of Science, when I went to %95 of lectures I was a pretty good student (except for chemistry obviously ) but in third (and later fourth year) I really just lost interest or something; started missing almost whole weeks at a time , come the finals last year I got a 2.2 (as opposed to the 1sts and 2.1s I had been consistently getting in 1st and 2 year)

stay in school kids

hada

1st arts in nuig can be a joke some of the time. soc & pol was down for a 9am start on every friday morning before christmas. Now that was pure class to see one third of the O'Flaherty theatre filled with sleeping/drunk students still wearing their shirts from the night before. But that was only what I saw from the 3 times i actually attended

Jonny Arson

hada wrote:

1st arts in nuig can be a joke some of the time. soc & pol was down for a 9am start on every friday morning before christmas. Now that was pure class to see one third of the O'Flaherty theatre filled with sleeping/drunk students still wearing their shirts from the night before. But that was only what I saw from the 3 times i actually attended

Well thats pretty much the case in my Sociology lectures especially on the Friday mornings. On average on Fridays about a third show up and on one day about 100 of 500 or so Sociology showed up in theatre L and many of them left before the lecture was over. Oooooh there is going to such a massive failure rate cometh May!

rainbow kirby

1st Arts exams are there to weed out the weak. There's a HUGE failure rate. Probably half your class are going to be back in August. Exactly the ones who spent the year on the beer.

Jonny Arson

Is it me or is it just me or is an average of 25-30% of people showing up for lectures in one of my subjects quite worrying? Does anyone know if this is widespread or is it normal in Arts in UCD?