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

KieranKennedy · 04-02-2009 12:52PM #1

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 · 04-02-2009 12:54PM

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 · 04-02-2009 12:55PM

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 · 04-02-2009 12:56PM

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

javaboy · 04-02-2009 12:57PM

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

Sútalún · 04-02-2009 12:57PM

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!!

04-02-2009 01:03PM

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 · 04-02-2009 01:14PM

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Caoimhín · 04-02-2009 01:19PM

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

CyrildoSquirrel · 04-02-2009 01:20PM

College??!

:D:D:D

:D:D:D

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

jester77 · 04-02-2009 01:23PM

Skipping lectures during a recession :eek:

04-02-2009 01:24PM

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Dave! · 04-02-2009 01:24PM

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 · 04-02-2009 01:26PM

javaboy wrote: »

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

Good God! We're in for it now!

Dudess · 04-02-2009 01:26PM

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

Postgrad: very rarely skipped lectures.

Wagon · 04-02-2009 01:27PM

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 · 04-02-2009 01:29PM

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whatawaster · 04-02-2009 01:33PM

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.

04-02-2009 01:33PM

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 · 04-02-2009 01:38PM

I missed about 1 so far since September

KieranKennedy · 04-02-2009 01:38PM

-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 · 04-02-2009 01:39PM

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 · 04-02-2009 01:43PM

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 · 04-02-2009 01:44PM

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 · 04-02-2009 01:44PM

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!

04-02-2009 01:49PM

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 · 04-02-2009 01:51PM

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giddybootz · 04-02-2009 01:57PM

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 · 04-02-2009 02:01PM

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 · 04-02-2009 02:01PM

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 · 04-02-2009 02:02PM

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

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

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