University Education

Consequently you’ve arrived at university or college, you’ve survived fresher week, you’ve got intoxicated, you’ve had the first knowledge of what a student hangover feels like and you’ve got drunk over again. You have loads of new friends and have found your way around university grounds. You’ve even worked out how to prepare food, everything in life is pink and then you wake up! Its Monday, it’s very early and your head hurts and your mind vaguely remembers that you have to be somewhere on college grounds but where Then it dawns on you are at university or college and your lectures start in 15 minutes! Run!

Lectures are usually large group classes taught by 1 or more lecturers in especially designed lecture halls if you are fortunate or large cold classrooms if you are not so fortunate. The procedure will differ according to the university or college, the lessons and the lecturer but a university or college lecture is usually a time for the student to sit back, pay attention and take notes. Falling sleeping is not obligatory but not to be advised. The major piece of advice is lectures are the one time when somebody will be teaching you, after that you are on your own; so don’t waste your lectures catching up on shuteye! It’s as well best not to have a hangover but that isn’t for all time rational.

A word on note is taking. Take notes! It actually is as simple as that, put out of your mind any ideas about not wanting to look too eager, relying on memory or nicking somebody else’s notes later on. Everyone is keen at first, you won’t keep in mind when it comes to revising and nobody will like you if you are always stealing his or her notes! The biggest regret off all students is at the end of each year, when revising anxiously, was that they hadn’t taken enough notes in their lectures and it almost certainly cost them a grade! As a full time student you will almost certainly have a minimum of 8 hours a week in lectures in some courses it can be as much as 30 and in others you may never have more. The rest of your formal learning is taken up by seminars and tutorials.