<p>How do you guys feel about not attending lecture? Most of the time when I am studying for exams, I choose to use my time studying rather than attending lecture because it is much more efficient for me.</p>
<p>However, I feel bad when I do this and have this crazy guilt trip that my professors must HATE me. What is your opinion on this?</p>
<p>In my experience, lectures never take role call. So if I was missing, they wouldn’t know.
But if they did know, they wouldn’t care. They take an “it’s their funeral” stance. </p>
<p>Anyway I’m doing English so seminars are more useful to me than lectures.
I don’t think I’ve ever used lecture notes for English.</p>
<p>And I do feel guilty if I miss a class. But that’s only happened once this semester (and I’ve withdrawn from the module now anyway).</p>
<p>I hate skipping. Somehow I always end up missing something important. And I never do anything productive when I do skip lol.</p>
<p>You should go to the lectures. Otherwise, you’ll have to do the reading.</p>
<p>I hate skipping too. Everytime I skip, the professor gives out study guides, particularly helpful notes, or explicit details on papers. So yeah, try not to skip if possible.</p>
<p>Depends on the class. Personal experience says that there’s much much more consequences to skipping a humanities lecture vs a science/engineering lecture.</p>
<p>Totally depends on the course. There were classes where I was there 100% of the time, generally if lecture was important to understanding the material, or if the course wasn’t really based on a text book.</p>
<p>But, my physics 1 course was literally straight from the book, with online homeworks and a weekly mandatory recitation. Lecture was basically a review of book problems… I went about 3 times the entire semester, because I felt it was more worth the 65 minutes to just work on the homework or do book problems on my own.</p>
<p>It really depends on the class. I have missed a lecture before to study for a test only for that one lecture to appear on the test, so if you can keep up with the information you missed or if the test is mainly on the book/homework then I wouldn’t worry too much.</p>
<p>I hate skipping classes. It can be a hassle to get a hold of handouts, etc. - it definitely helps to know people in the class.</p>
<p>Some of my classes have “clickers” and random quizzes - not a wise idea to skip those!</p>
<p>I usually dislike skipping lectures outright if I’m tempted to skip lecture to work I usually just bring my work to the lecture and do it there. That way I am able to perk up if anything really important does get covered as well as pick up all handouts or whatever.</p>
<p>I don’t like skipping class because class provides me with an incentive to wake up early and start the day. If I didn’t go to class my day would have no structure and I probably wouldn’t end up working. Plus going to class gives me a sense of what I’m supposed to learn, even if I don’t end up paying much attention.</p>
<p>I skip my science classes all the time. Bio is straight memorization, and office hours or discussions are usually enough if there’s a concept I don’t understand. Physics and Chem I can learn out of the book and through practice problems. How much I skip depends on the prof; if he or she goes off book, talks about current research, or does demonstrations I try not to skip.</p>
<p>My non science classes I try not to skip. The lectures are usually more interesting anyway, but the tests in those classes are also usually more lecture or discussion based. </p>
<p>Also depends on how big the class is. A several hundred person lecture I skip more often than a 20 peron one. And I’m hardly ever in class during midterms week.</p>
<p>I feel like lectures should be attended. Even if you feel like it is a class you don’t “have” to be there. Why? Because it gives you the opportunity to make a connection with your professor. Later on you may need letters of reference and that teacher could write you a valuable letter to get you a great job. The impressions we leave with people are important.</p>
<p>Plus it has been my experience in classes - especially with those under 25 students - the teachers do know when you miss. They may not know how many times, but they know that you have not been there to participate. </p>
<p>Speaking of participation, say you have taken all exams and you have an 89.5%. Wouldn’t it be great if the teacher bumped that up to a 90? He or she might - if they can recall how you were engaged and participated in the course and how you brought something to class discussions. Those are points you can’t earn if you don’t show up. </p>
<p>As an aside, when you miss class, odds are you will need the lecture notes. People get tired really quick of being asked for their notes when someone misses class.</p>
<p>Depends on the class, but I do know that sometimes the midterms/finals can have questions about things that were explicitly covered in lecture (at least at my uni), or they’ll cover topics that may have been discussed verbally, or depend on a key point expressed verbally (and not in the notes/book/etc). It really depends.</p>
<p>All I know is that it’s usually good to attend so you’ll be on the same page as everyone else. You take a risk by skipping lecture. The magnitude of that risk depends on how well you understand the class material.</p>
<p>I agree with those that say lectures are more important for humanities courses. In those the content is greatly up to the professor, to the point that it may not even be worth reading the book. Unless you attend the lectures you won’t know what angle that paticular professor takes on the subject. In the hard sciences, you are much more likely to get away with skipping class and reading the book, since there is little variation in content from one professor to another.</p>
<p>I honestly regret not going sometimes even though in morning I tell myself “ah forget it,i’ll catch up”</p>
<p>I have one class where if you miss 5+ lectures you have to take a comprehensive final exam. I think I’ve missed 4. Hope I don’t get sick!</p>