How neccesary is it to attend all lecture?

[schmalex]

Thanks:) Well I'm still going to be attending at least 2\3 of my classes so I'm pretty confident I'll be ok now, especially since it's a really popular subject so it shouldn't be too difficult to find the righ resources. Thanks

ps. how far are you from UoM? How long did it take you to commute, because that's my main worry

[squance]

It depends on the lecturer.
Some put up the whole week's slides on the weekend before the lectures, some put it 1 hour before the lectures and some put them days after the actual lecture

For some subjects, they have a bound book with the whole semester's lecture slides in it.

how many lecturers at uom are lazy enough to have it up after the lecture?
like just 1 or 2 or a lot?

To be quite honest. I have no idea.

For the lecturers I've had so far, we usually have the slides before hand because we have to annotate them.

Thanks:) Well I'm still going to be attending at least 2\3 of my classes so I'm pretty confident I'll be ok now, especially since it's a really popular subject so it shouldn't be too difficult to find the righ resources. Thanks

ps. how far are you from UoM? How long did it take you to commute, because that's my main worry

It took me about 30 mins to get to UoM from my school and around 40 mins back to my suburb.

[QuantumJG]

I was under the impression that I was going to be able to have both lectures on the one day, but it would appear that is impossible. I've heard people say that since lectures are podcasted, it's not entirely neccesary to attend all of them. Do you think I'd be able to do the whole program rarely attending one of the streams of lectures?

With uni I attended probably 95% of my lectures since you get to make friends and it's just easier to go instead of downloading podcasts. Thursdays in second semester of uni I had physics pracs and a finance lecture, weeks that physics pracs weren't on, meant I would not go and just listen to the podcast, but sometimes I would get lazy or had other work to do and I never listened to the podcast.

Don't become some recluse who rarely attends uni as you won't enjoy uni.

[schmalex]

This is just UMEP, don't worry:P

[humph]

I was under the impression that I was going to be able to have both lectures on the one day, but it would appear that is impossible. I've heard people say that since lectures are podcasted, it's not entirely neccesary to attend all of them. Do you think I'd be able to do the whole program rarely attending one of the streams of lectures?

With uni I attended probably 95% of my lectures since you get to make friends and it's just easier to go instead of downloading podcasts. Thursdays in second semester of uni I had physics pracs and a finance lecture, weeks that physics pracs weren't on, meant I would not go and just listen to the podcast, but sometimes I would get lazy or had other work to do and I never listened to the podcast.

Don't become some recluse who rarely attends uni as you won't enjoy uni.

I think attending class in first year is more important for the friends bit. I rarely bother going to class, especially if there are lecture notes available online (in fact right now I'm skipping two weeks of class by going travelling around Europe instead ).

[*ryan777*]

I was under the impression that I was going to be able to have both lectures on the one day, but it would appear that is impossible. I've heard people say that since lectures are podcasted, it's not entirely neccesary to attend all of them. Do you think I'd be able to do the whole program rarely attending one of the streams of lectures?

With uni I attended probably 95% of my lectures since you get to make friends and it's just easier to go instead of downloading podcasts. Thursdays in second semester of uni I had physics pracs and a finance lecture, weeks that physics pracs weren't on, meant I would not go and just listen to the podcast, but sometimes I would get lazy or had other work to do and I never listened to the podcast.

Don't become some recluse who rarely attends uni as you won't enjoy uni.

I think attending class in first year is more important for the friends bit. I rarely bother going to class, especially if there are lecture notes available online (in fact right now I'm skipping two weeks of class by going travelling around Europe instead ).

wait, so u have classes now?
summer semester?

[vexx]

I was under the impression that I was going to be able to have both lectures on the one day, but it would appear that is impossible. I've heard people say that since lectures are podcasted, it's not entirely neccesary to attend all of them. Do you think I'd be able to do the whole program rarely attending one of the streams of lectures?

With uni I attended probably 95% of my lectures since you get to make friends and it's just easier to go instead of downloading podcasts. Thursdays in second semester of uni I had physics pracs and a finance lecture, weeks that physics pracs weren't on, meant I would not go and just listen to the podcast, but sometimes I would get lazy or had other work to do and I never listened to the podcast.

Don't become some recluse who rarely attends uni as you won't enjoy uni.

I think attending class in first year is more important for the friends bit. I rarely bother going to class, especially if there are lecture notes available online (in fact right now I'm skipping two weeks of class by going travelling around Europe instead ).

wow that's amazing, don't you have to attend tutorials and the like?
o_o

[humph]

wait, so u have classes now?
summer semester?

I'm supposed to be on exchange at the University of Copenhagen - their normal second semester starts mid-September and doesn't finish til the end of January.

wow that's amazing, don't you have to attend tutorials and the like?
o_o

Errr, yes, but they're not compulsory

[*ryan777*]

wait, so u have classes now?
summer semester?

I'm supposed to be on exchange at the University of Copenhagen - their normal second semester starts mid-September and doesn't finish til the end of January.

wow that's amazing, don't you have to attend tutorials and the like?
o_o

Errr, yes, but they're not compulsory

is it true a portion of ur overall mark for a subject includes attendance (like 10%) ?

[humph]

Depends very much on the subject. Some of my subjects in first year were like that (linguistics, maths, physics), but none afterwards have been.

[rustic_metal]

It's pretty much crucial to attend every lecture for maths, but there's usually only 2 hours a week for that, so you have to make it count. Not sure about other subjects.

[vexx]

wait, so u have classes now?
summer semester?

I'm supposed to be on exchange at the University of Copenhagen - their normal second semester starts mid-September and doesn't finish til the end of January.

wow that's amazing, don't you have to attend tutorials and the like?
o_o

Errr, yes, but they're not compulsory

'supposed'? what do you mean supposed? are you wagging your exchange!? -_-

[humph]

wait, so u have classes now?
summer semester?

I'm supposed to be on exchange at the University of Copenhagen - their normal second semester starts mid-September and doesn't finish til the end of January.

wow that's amazing, don't you have to attend tutorials and the like?
o_o

Errr, yes, but they're not compulsory

'supposed'? what do you mean supposed? are you wagging your exchange!? -_-

Hey, I went to a couple of classes! Back in September...

[vexx]

^ haha.

how is kobenhavn going? can you speak danish ?

[humph]

Yeah, but I already spoke Danish I lived in Copenhagen for a few years when I was a teenager.
I'm in Krakow with some friends right now though, then off to Budapest tomorrow...