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four lectures and four seminars. I went to about nine seminars in my three years as they were generally pretty awkward and no one really said anything but I was good at going to lectures. They were a bit of a social event. Didn't miss many.

The combo of the lecturer going "these lecture notes are avaliable online" and general first year "well this year doesn't count towards anything" apathy contributed to that.

and to resit it in third year just to get a pass.

At the time I seemed to be quite proud of this but it sickens me now. I only had four compulsary hours a week and I couldn't even make it to them. I showed my face at the start of each first term and when I discovered that they couldn't give a fuck I just didn't go. As lectures weren't compulsary, I didn't go to one after first year.

despite having at least four 9am starts every week, in my 1st, 2nd and final years. Life Sciences at Manchester Uni bloody love early starts!

but that is because they aren't always that relevant to me and they aren't the primary way for me to learn stuff.

but that's only because I just had to scrape 40% and none of it counted towards my final mark.

Second and third years I went to pretty much all of them.

I came out with a a good mark. Coincide? I think so!

only missed a couple on second and third year, probably only got about 65% attendance in boring first year

then again, i did history.
1st year: 8-12 hours a week
2nd year: 6-8 hours a week
3rd year: 2-6 hours a week (that includes seminars and 1-to-1 contact time too)

I did once get a letter from the Uni telling me that if I missed any more seminars then they'd deduct marks from me.

most of them were at 9 oclock. it is difficult, dont judge me.

I'M SUCH A FUCKING REBEL, YEAH?

whether or not i was in any state to absorb any information was another matter.

hated college. load of toss

i missed loads, for various reasons. eye tests, doctros, illness, not giving a fuck. however, i never deliberately missed any really, by just not going until 2nd year's elective forensic class. i was given the exam paper (they do they same one every year) and i just didn't go. multiple choice WITH the answers.

9am to 4pm, mon - fri (not wed) for 4 years.

luckily it was just a dream.

I even went to the 9am one after we'd stayed up to watch the 2004 US elections. Then I felt sick and had to eat a yoghurt, which didn't actually help.
I am a cool guy.

which I think is my best going to lessons ratio since 2004.

* didn't go to university

i still manage to miss some of them. couldn't really count, but i go to most of them like. the only ones i've missed so far this term though have been for audit modules so it doesn't count.

Especailly one lecure which was on 5pm on a Friday, yeah good luck with that.

None due to not being arsed though. I had about five contact hours a week top-whack and my LEA paid my fees so not going would have been a tad git-like.

There is one chap there by the name of "Big Mike", so called because he is absolutely huge.

He went to uni sometime ago. Once, with a post match pint, he was telling us all about his tales of being at uni - basically he was an alcoholic, and even ended up homeless and stayed out all night an slept in the bogs at uni. He worked out how much work he did at uni for us. He estimated in 3 years he did 23 hours worth of work. He got a 2:2.

admittedly, i was doing an arts degree, so, y'know yourself, but..

when i went to college i used to hate people who attended every SINGLE lecture with a vicious, burning passion that still shocks me with its intensity, even right now when college is a fairly distant memory. it's not lack of intelligence, i'm quite bright, i wouldn't say it's laziness either, it could have been more a simmering disechantment with the idea of educational achievement and all that, idk..
it's hard to explain really. just the sight of people obsessed with academic achievement to the point where the concept of missing a lecture seems like taboo to them was enough to turn my stomach and probably made me attend lectures even less. i also had a simmering resentment of people in general, so you know, that could be a factor - who knows? people are dicks i general, students even more so. to be honest, there's no conventional job that appeals to me anyway, so i guess the motivation wasn't there, but even if it was, i'd imagine i'd still feel similar about attending lectures in general.

oh yeah, i have notoriously bad concentration as well, so when i did go to lectures it was pretty pointless. it's so bad it's probably a medical condition, my concentration. so that was definitely a factor.

but in conclusion, over-achiever brainiac lecture-attending squares are dicks, man, cos i said so

mix of lectures and seminars

I went to most, apart from a few 9am monday morning ones, because quite frankly who in their right mind would go to those! And there was one lecturer who was pretty rubbish so i stopped going to those and just made my own notes from books instead.

as it must be years since you've been to Uni.

Which turned out to be handy because I managed to miss one of my exams (long story), and I was allowed to go in to second year and just do the exam the year after because I had been to everything and done everything on time.

In second year, I went to most things as I really enjoyed all my subjects. Although the Wednesday 9am lecture and class back to back in the lecturer's office because there were so few of us on German history 1500-1872 suffered a lot.

In third year something in me broke. A combination of being a rugby captain and something awful happening in the gap between 2nd and 3rd years meant I turned into an absolute disaster. For one course I didn't hand in a single essay. I wrote my dissertation in a day. For another, in which the lecturer hated me, I once turned up caked in blood having come stright from hospital having broken my nose the day/night before. The only reason was able to sit my exams was that my tutor loved me and he sorted out all the mess I created. For the course where the lecturer hated me, I got a brilliant grade (some how), and I went up to gloat about it at graduation and she nearly cried telling me how unfair it was that I got a higher grade than people who actually tried. That woke me up a bit.

and i missed one 1 hour lecture in the first week (due to a time table issue) and then one through illness (i was actually ill for once)....one through hangover.....two (of the same lecture) because they're shite...seriously in this lecture we had to come up with different words for people who are fat. and i missed one seminar because my sub-group did none of the work so i just thought i'd leave them in the shit instead of covering for them all the time

I was told to go and let a list of teachers know I was going to be in there class. Which, of course, I didn't do and so for 3 months I went to register or whatever that morning bit was called and then I went and spent the rest of the day down the snooker club, as no-one was expecting me.

That was until I dropped out of sixth form, of course

...people who didn't go to any lectures and did very little work and still ended up with a first. Universities are after all places where intelligence and utilisation of IQ should be rewarded. And if people can do this off their own back then fair play... I'm not a fan of the argument that "this isn't fair"... it's just life ennit.

There is something rather galling about people who bin off lectures because they can't be fucked though. It's just a colossal waste of resource. And it's also rather annoying to see people whose parents are paying for them to attend these lectures and seminars but in their arrogance they're just like "fuck it, I'm at university so I can do whatever I want". Something about that attitude just gets on my nerves.

I went to every lecture barring when I was ill. And on one occasion where I slept through my alarm for a 9am because I was too drunk. I felt bad about that. The main reason why I went to every one was because I found my course INTERESTING and I wanted to learn things. I didn't care whether they'd be on an exam or whatever, I just love learning things. And I'd paid to learn these things and I was interested in them so... I went to them. Makes perfect sense to me...

One thing I learnt at university also was how cripplingly easy it is to get a 2:1 in an 'Arts' subject. Seriously you really REALLY have to be adept at failing to get a 2:2...

I WISH my job started at 9am.

however, due to the nature of my postgrad course we actually have to turn up to every lecture, and they make us sign in. It's amazing how easy it is to turn up to 9am lectures once you get used to it. Even if we didn't have the sign-in sheets I wouldn't miss any, partly because I'd be screwed if I did and partly because it's become such a social thing.

almost no seminars.

People stealing my work would not be cool

inconvenient ones. monday mornings, friday aternoons etc

lots of course mates though, so it was a support network and we all passed on the info to whoever wasn't at that particular one.

lesson: make friends from your course.

BUT! This was when i treated education as a means to an end, not something i enjoyed. It's better to have an appetite for learning, rather than just doing enough to get by.

...second year about 80 per cent...
...third year...probably 75-80 per cent...

I dunno, sometimes I just genuinely couldn't be bothered, knowing I'd not done the reading so the seminar would be useless, or knowing I had done the reading, so the lecture would be pretty useless. Plus the ol' "slides are up online" thing, for a really dull and useless lecture...

For my MA we didn't really have lectures but attendance for that would have been around 90, I guess.

i went to about 10-20 hours per week. sometimes i would not go for a few weeks at a time.

i've missed two
one because i had an appointment to check out my maybe broken (actually just badly bruised) ribs
one because the tutor moved the seminar an hour forward and i didn't read the email because i'd work an evening shift the night before

because if you missed one you'll be playing catch up all year.

For history and my two masters I only turned up to to lectures I found interesting and tutorials

During my latter years at school my attendence was 37%. When i went to college to do my GCSE's i attended three maths lessons and two english lessons during the year. 100% attendence for Sociology, at least that was vaguely interesting, not to mention really easy. Somehow managed to pass all the subjects i took, it's true when they say they're far too easy. In further education i noticed you can't really get away with missing most lessons if you want to pass your course, so i left. Big winner.

It was 1996 wasn't it? I never knew you were THAT OLD.

it doesn't help that i have a language class at 9am every day and 2 hours on a wednesday afternoon when sports stuff happens.
that's my excuse anyway.

in five years of university.

And at the end of that I got two 2:2s.

lots of missed lectures

1st Degree (BEng, 20+ hrs pw): Didn't miss that much, but did go to the wrong one for my very 1st lecture. The course code was also the room number for the 2nd years' lecture in the same subject. I was sh!tting it, thinking, OMG, he keeps talking about 'stuff we did last year' with regard to Hydraulics formulae, and I've done none of that stuff. :-D

I missed a few Wednesday morning 9am lectures because the Football League highligts showws on late on Tuesday night, but generally I was a dilligent sod who did his best. Result: just a pass

2nd Degree (BA, ~5 hrs pw): Worked 3 weekdays a week, and managed to keep on top of things. Result: 2:1

Oasis' @ Maine Rd: Yes. I went to the saturday one, thanks. Before my time @ uni.

I found it was a bit like missing an episode of Lost: near impossible to work out what's going on thereafter, so not much point in persevering.

You ncould have gone and 'studied' Meeja Studiez at Thames Valley - Only two hours of lectures/tutorials per year and then you get a sweet job as an executive* at Channel 4 as soon as you graduate.

*Actual job may vary. 99% chance that you will end up manning the till at Borders.

undergrad I was pretty poor, I even shocked myself in the 2nd year by not going to one particular module once in the whole year.
masters I felt more aware of how much the whole thing cost and wanted to get my moneys worth

I don't know how many I've missed, but not loads. A few due to migraines, some due to deadlines and alcohol related pain. One of my housemates was terrible for it though.

I would have attended fuck all and spent three years vaguely wondering if it was the epic alcohol consumption ruining my body and mind.
As it was I got to ruin a job by doing that, which i feel bad enough about. And now I get to take my degree seriously because I've already done all that getting alcohol poisoning stuff.

I do an OU degree - I have three lectures this year!* Somehow I think I might manage to attend all of them.

*In my defense I work for several hours every evening plus 1 day per weekend typically, on top of full time work.

Really wasn't in the mindset for a degree by the start of second year, and missed almost every lecture and seminar in my final year. I wasn't proud of it at the time, and I regret it more and more every day. I realise now I should have dropped out and given myself some time to sort my head out instead of pretending I gave a damn - because I liked the idea of doing a degree, but the actual studying aspect didn't suit me right. In a few years, when I hopefully have a bit of spare cash, I'm going to re-take my course either at the OU or through distance learning at another institution and really commit myself to it.

Missed a couple physics lectures 2nd year to go look at houses to lease. Missed quite a few biochem lectures last year because it was recorded and in the January/February/March snows of Michigan I cba walking to it for 9 in the morning (bad excuse I know). This year I've taken to skipping my prokaryotic cell physio course, mainly because he reads the lectures verbatim but I'm trying to kick that habit of skipping.

but then I skipped the first year BECAUSE I'M SMART AS FUCK so didn't have to go through completely skip-worthy lectures

at least 40% of my lectures in my first two years. This term I'm making it to about 9 out of 25 lectures a week. Then again, I really don't enjoy my course and should have dropped out in the first year

due to (genuine) illness. I only had 8 hours a week though.

Now on my masters, I have more like 30 hours a week, and have yet to miss anything. If I miss something I'll probably fail.

missed an embarrassing amount of lectures (went to approx 70% of them.) I got a 2.1...

If I do a masters I'm going to be a lot more punctual. That's the condition I've set myself...