I didn't attend a single lecture after my first term of uni. Why?
- Awkward times. For example a 5-6pm lecture on Thursday night, or a 9-10am lecture on a Friday morning when the main student night out was on the Thursday night? Yeh that was happening.
- All material is available online
- Content is only the bare minimum and you'll cover it in your reading anyway
- Didn't know anyone in the classes
- Boring material. There's always one **** compulsory module that you're made to do which nobody enjoyed. I remember an angry email going around in my second year once when 6 people turned up to a lecture - our course had over 100 people on it.
- Had more important things to do e.g essays, revising for modules or going to work.
Didn't affect my grades at all. I turned up to seminars which actually made a difference and helped me, but lectures for my subject were pointless and added nothing. The most ridiculous one was having a tutorial on how to use the library halfway through the second term, when our course was very reading intensive and everyone would have known that information anyway. Unsuprisingly nobody went to it.