Lecture leaping: skipping classes with reason
Each quartile I attend the first lecture of each new course: a fair chance for the lecturer to convince me for coming back. After a couple of slides I already regret my attendance; the slides tell me what I already have read on Oase, and the lecturer reads out loud the exact same text to add up to a tripled introduction of the course. And the conclusion at the end is even worse: more information will follow.
Until the last lecture in which the final test and remaining questions are discussed, I probably won’t be found in class. Although I still end up in a class room once in a while; some classes are indirectly mandatory due to intermediate tests, or I’m afraid I miss out too much information from a specific course. But in the latter case it’s probably the same story as always: after 15 minutes I start getting restless, distracted or simply starting to fall asleep. So I’m either anti-relaxed or too relaxed to keep focused. In addition, having a lecture in the Auditorium can lead to special side effects like RA and claustrophobia from the small and uncomfortable seats you have to be isolated in for at least 45 minutes.
Other students also mention their lack of attention and the increasingly urge to take a nap while enjoying a hypnotic lecturer talk. But why should I check my phone in a class-room if I can do this comfortably at home? I’m simply not made for lectures. And since I got the most ECTS without resits, there is no need to abandon a lecture-free educational strategy. What do I do to compensate for the lost lessons in class? I just make multiple mind-maps of the materials, setting my own pace, and making test exams. Quite simple; nevertheless quite effective as-well.
Of course attending lectures still has an advantage over slide scraping at home. One is able to ask questions and get additional information about the content that the lecturer provides which isn’t mentioned in the slides. I don’t make use of this advantage though: due to my lack of focus I miss the additional information in the first place, and I dare not ask questions because I’m afraid the answer was the information I just missed out on.
I don’t argue that people shouldn’t go to lectures. At the contrary; I am amazed by those of you who get up early and leave out late to hear what experts got to say. Probs to you! But with this old-fashioned way of teaching (which will not stand for long since there are good reasons for this) I am doomed by my lack of concentration to be an early adopter of becoming educated differently. Maybe I should start a new commission for this: the autodidaCie.
Each quartile I attend the first lecture of each new course: a fair chance for the lecturer to convince me for coming back. After a couple of slides I already regret my attendance; the slides tell me what I already have read on Oase, and the lecturer reads out loud the exact same text to add up to a tripled introduction of the course. And the conclusion at the end is even worse: more information will follow.
Until the last lecture in which the final test and remaining questions are discussed, I probably won’t be found in class. Although I still end up in a class room once in a while; some classes are indirectly mandatory due to intermediate tests, or I’m afraid I miss out too much information from a specific course. But in the latter case it’s probably the same story as always: after 15 minutes I start getting restless, distracted or simply starting to fall asleep. So I’m either anti-relaxed or too relaxed to keep focused. In addition, having a lecture in the Auditorium can lead to special side effects like RA and claustrophobia from the small and uncomfortable seats you have to be isolated in for at least 45 minutes.
Other students also mention their lack of attention and the increasingly urge to take a nap while enjoying a hypnotic lecturer talk. But why should I check my phone in a class-room if I can do this comfortably at home? I’m simply not made for lectures. And since I got the most ECTS without resits, there is no need to abandon a lecture-free educational strategy. What do I do to compensate for the lost lessons in class? I just make multiple mind-maps of the materials, setting my own pace, and making test exams. Quite simple; nevertheless quite effective as-well.
Of course attending lectures still has an advantage over slide scraping at home. One is able to ask questions and get additional information about the content that the lecturer provides which isn’t mentioned in the slides. I don’t make use of this advantage though: due to my lack of focus I miss the additional information in the first place, and I dare not ask questions because I’m afraid the answer was the information I just missed out on.
I don’t argue that people shouldn’t go to lectures. At the contrary; I am amazed by those of you who get up early and leave out late to hear what experts got to say. Probs to you! But with this old-fashioned way of teaching (which will not stand for long since there are good reasons for this) I am doomed by my lack of concentration to be an early adopter of becoming educated differently. Maybe I should start a new commission for this: the autodidaCie.
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I’m simply not made for lectures. For God's sake, for what are you made then? All sort of events?
Haha.niet naar het vragenuurtje gaan omdat..hoe cirkelig,.ach..je hoeft het maar te halen? En dan te bedenken dat je moeder al jaren webinars volgt..en de tu e maar beweren dat ze technisch zo vaardig en vooruit zijn..
Je krijgt zo wel een mooie set profi foto's bij elkaar!
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