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[AusPAX 2013] - Margaret River, WA - Oct/Nov 2013
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I had work tonight. Do. Not. Want.
Yep I'll be there.
I could made it worse, but I never get much from actually going to lectures so I didn't bother signing up for them. When I get can all of the lecture notes online, or use iLecture to listen to a recording, I honestly don't see the point in going in to campus 4 days a week just so I can attend every lecture.
Also young lecturers are boring and strict while old lecturers and interesting and helpful!
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the lectures are generally pretty helpful in literature because you need to talk that shit out, it's not like engineering where you can get everything you need to know from a textbook
but i can never pay attention to lectures so i only get so much out of them
You are kidding yourself if you think engineers just read books and that's it.
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my little brother's doing it and i swear every second assignment is 'build a bridge with the following hilarious constraints'
like it has to be made of papier-mache and support the weight of an adult male gorilla
Also one of my tuts is with the lecturer for that uni anyway, and he's this really cool, funny, old guy who surprised me last semester by being more fun than most of the young tutors I had for my other classes.
As someone who spent eight years at uni to get four years' worth of accreditation, I would suggest going to the lectures as much as possible. You'll build a better rapport with the lecturer, first of all. Even if you only ask the occasional question they'll be more likely to help you out outside of class times if you're a familiar face. Secondly, and on a related note, your presence makes giving the lectures that much more pleasant for them. If you're a teacher with a class of forty people on paper, but only six or seven of them ever turn up... well, even if you know they're probably watching online, it's hard not to find that dispiriting. Every extra body in a seat will make the lecturer that much happier and that much more engaged. Thirdly, I found I absorbed more information from lectures I attended in person. The absence of a pause button and social pressure not to look at my phone or wander off and do something else forced me to pay much closer attention.
If the commute is a pain, you can at least try to make the journey worth your while. Spend time at uni before and after that day's lecture, hanging out with friends or just studying in the library. I mean, you've got to study anyway, right? Might as well do it in an environment with more resources and fewer distractions.
I know you've got to prioritise, and it isn't always worthwhile to get to every single lecture. That's why online recordings are such a boon, and we're lucky to be one of the first generations to have them. But they're there as a back-up for live lecture attendance, not a replacement, and I would advise not using them as such.
And Butler is dead on, when you are committing the time/effort (and that looming bill) to uni you should make it count. I did some podcast viewing due to subject clashes, and while that was a godsend, I did suffer a bit in the subject I put less priority into.
What got me through Uni was I just treated it like a job. I turned up at 7 every morning and I was there until at least 4 every day Monday to Friday unless I had classes late in the evening.
It was great because I had a routine and it also meant I could be free most week nights and weekends to either work or get on the piss
Once you start doing shit like not attending lectures because you'll do it from home, you have to be bloody disciplined to actually do the work.
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My course also stresses a good relationship with our tutors, rather than our lecturers. In fact, the only reason I have lectures right now is because these are the first year units that I have to take for my bastard of a custom course (hooray RPL) that are shared with people from a dozen other degrees. I'm likely to never have any class with that lecturer again. For the most part the tutors that I have for those units are the ones I will be wanting to seek the help of, rather than the lecturer. The rest of my units- the degree-specific ones- just don't have lectures. We're also talking about 1 hour lectures, compared to 3-4 hour tutorials or labs, so I still have a lot of contact with my tutors during those classes.
I mean, don't get me wrong, I totally understand what Niall and everyone else is trying to point out, but I've done the going-to-every lecture thing before and I just didn't find it as rewarding as I would've liked, and now that I am faced with the choice of being on campus 4 days a week, or 2 days a week (one day for just 2 hours), I find the latter to be a far better use of my time and money. I usually try to fit lectures into my timetables if I'm going to be on campus that day anyway, but this semester it just hasn't turned out that way.
My mum cut the tip of her finger off and now we're hanging out in the emergency room.
Beat that!
What happened? Do you require Internet hugs?
The most contact hours (of lectures) I think was 22 hours of contact hours. Plus we were there most if the day anyway doing our assignments. (our record I believe was 15 assignments in a week!)
Final year I I think I was doing fifty hours weeks plus another thirty working a job.
And I was a lazy student.
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That was quite something, I thought.
That is a very different situation to my degree, but I'd still recommend going to lectures when you can make it worth your while. If some of your learning involves reading and research - things you don't need access to your PC for - maybe block one day a week for doing that on campus and go to that day's lecture while you're there. Making one lecture a week is still better than making zero.
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it is completely absurd
they should make us work heaps harder
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They try to make our degree like that sometimes, but it's usually just during crunch time or group project periods.
But even when I'm not going in to do project work every day I'll come home from classes and just do uni work til midnight, get up at 6 and repeat.
Satans..... hints..... I'm a mo bro!
Satans..... hints..... I'm a mo bro!
Wow, I wish I could just tell you to sleep more but I know a lot of courses don't really make that an option. I could not cope with that workload, personally. Butler needs his sleepy-time.
Satans..... hints..... I'm a mo bro!
If I sleep too little or too much then the trouble starts. I should note that I'm not working 100% of the day, but a lot of it during the crunch time weeks. I also put in a lot more effort than most of the students doing my degree. I want a good mark and a good folio at the end of it.
I just can't stay awake, I try really hard but they dim the lights and I'm gone.