Quick Rant About My University

Don't go.

I just downloaded the material for the "theory" classes off the Uni site (Blackboard I assume you use) and attended the practicals :)

Saves those awful 4 hr gaps between lectures
 
I can't help but think;

1.) I never got up that early while at uni.
2.) You should move.
3.) There are plently of things to do if you have long gaps between lectures;
-Drinking
-Women
-Splofs

Long gaps between lectures are opportunities - not a hindrence!

EDIT: Just think Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas on repeat.
 
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Totally the same here. All of my lectures are done on Powerpoint, no real explanation on many items within those lectures, the lecturer pretty much reads the words of the slide and thats that. Every Powerpoint lecture is available on our student intranet as well which makes matters worse.

It's even worse when you have to be in at say 10am for a one hour lecture, then have to sit around doing nothing until 3pm when the next lecture starts. Seems like such a waste of time, but it has to be done.

I'm lucky that my lecturers are all nice people, one emailed me today as I was absent last week due to freshers flu, asking if I was ok and when I would be in etc.
 
robmiller said:
To be fair, most of the work—for my course at least—is your own research, reading and essay-writing. I do 9 hours a week of lectures and seminars, and then about 12 hours a week of my own work.
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Ditto for me. One of the big things about Uni is they don't spoon feed you, you are supposed to do a lot of the work yourself.

edit: actually, maybe we have really good lecturers here for my course or something, but my lectures are really useful. Sure the lecturers use PP, but that's merely bullet points, I'd miss a lot of stuff out from the lec if I just downloaded the slides.
 
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stevechapman said:
Tuesdays at University I have a Lecture which is scheduled from 9am to 10am and thats it for the day.

Today, it finished at 9.30am. All the Lecturer did was read from a PowerPoint Presentation which is on the Internet which we can Download to our own machines.
So I could have just read it at home and not bother going in for that Lecture.

So there I was at 9.30am, waiting around for an hour for the train :(
It just annoys me as the Lecture lasted 30minutes, and to get from home to Uni and back it took me 40minutes :(
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Welcome to Uni life.
 
I have very few lectures but I think generally the teaching here is pretty good (Comp sci at Bristol btw). Powerpoint type slides are used a lot and you can just download them from their site, but the lecturers don't usually just read them. They actually expand on what they say and explain it. So all in all it's pretty good.

I've noticed some subjects have much, much more contact time than comp sci. I have maybe 3 hours a day and that's it, where as people doing chemistry have nearly full days with only a few hours off.
 
I always found lecture quality varied. Some were outstanding and some were poor. However, I found lectures a really difficult way of learning, it just didn't suit the way I remember things, and also I had the tendency to switch off after 10 minutes.

By the third year I'd practically given up going to lectures and either taught myself using the syllabus sheet the lecturers gave out at the start of each course and emailing them with questions, or getting the notes from other people, and backing that up with books. Worked fine for me, and meant no 9am starts.

In your situation, if I had only one timetabled lecture at 9am, I just wouldn't have bothered, too much hassle with public transport for one lecture.
 
Mad old tory said:
Ditto for me. One of the big things about Uni is they don't spoon feed you, you are supposed to do a lot of the work yourself.

edit: actually, maybe we have really good lecturers here for my course or something, but my lectures are really useful. Sure the lecturers use PP, but that's merely bullet points, I'd miss a lot of stuff out from the lec if I just downloaded the slides.
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Same here. I enjoy lectures and I couldn't rely on the slides, so I go to them :)
 
I've heard quite a few people complain about this, and I have to say that I've never experienced it. Sure, I've had lecturers that I find boring, but I've never had one that regularly fails to fill the lecture slot for the full length.

First year is such a cop out anyway, I'm truly amazed how little work I had to do in my first year, just enjoy it while it lasts. :p
 
Our databses lecturer is useless, he drags everything out and has a mototone voice that sends everyone to sleep. Last week at our seminar the lecturer explained the lecture in 15 minutes flat, adn asked if she should do it every week as she knows the guy isnt too great. Now no-one is going to the lectures as she explains in 15 minutes better than he does in an hour :o

Sitting in front of powerpoint slides all day does get tedious, but its better than sitting in front of a PC all day in a classroom staring at OcUK.
 
I've got to agree with the original post, Uni is killing me at the minute!

I go to a local Uni that is about 10 miles down the road in town (Swansea), and the lectures are also all over the place with huge breaks in between. The lecturers either don’t turn up due to illness or some trip around the world somewhere i.e. marketing unit lecturer is off to Tokyo to check out there university’s. :confused:

The lecturers also bore you in lecturers, by reading off PowerPoint presentations for a couple of hours, and then there’s the classic, when the lecturers waste a fair bit of time telling us some story or whatever not related to the unit.

As for the people on my course, apart from one of my best mates and a couple of them, the rest are tossers, show-offs and they think there gods gift they spend all there spare time talking about cars 24/7, the classic chav boy racer wannabes buying there cheap Fiesta’s or equally as bad, then buying bran new breaks, alloys, badges ect .. I find it quite funny listening to them ramble on about how they have 1 extra horsepower …. Wow 120 bh now!! lol

As for the course, it’s a computing degree (Computer Networking), my enthusiasm for IT is almost dead, and in college I had loads of enthusiasm (could start and finish an assignment during an all-nighter, no problem) now I can barely bring myself to look or think of the work, its just so boring, and every lecturer seems to presume we want to be an IT admin at some school once we finish the degree, I m sorry but I would rather die than have a boring job where the highlight of the day is banning some kid for playing a game.

The latest lecturer tactic is for them not to give us notes (in order to cut down on money) so now they are giving us electronic versions of the documents, which means WE have to pay to print them out, (uni fees go up, we get less print outs and now have the extra cost of printing them out ourselves) otherwise we cannot make effective notes and revising before exams and checking notes will be difficult. Also I forget to mention they wont supply us with paper print outs, but they have recently bought 2 40” LCD TV’s which they are currently running useless adverts on!!

Really beginning to wish I either went away for Uni or just went straight into a career, sorry about the rant, my life is just so boring and has no structure or meaning at the minute! :rolleyes:
 
Yeah, a lot of our work is electronic on our intranet like. Its good in a way as it saves you carrying stuff, but tis annoying as you cant just pick it up and flick through it. Some of our lecturers are giving us printouts of the days lecture slides, which is useful for personal notes. Others just let you use a sheet of lined paper.

Im on a computing degree, Ive got 100 sheets of paper i can print on before having to pay, ive got 60mb of user area, which doesnt remember any of my website bookmarks as the system is wiped upon logging off, and blatently isnt enough space at all for a 4 year degree. A lot of the computers connect to a central server using something like VNC or some other visual program, meaning im running through a switch rather than a normal PC, making the PC lag like mad.

Ive got plenty annoyances with my uni, but theres nothing you can do so i just get on with it. Although when the work begons tp pile in, a laptop will probably begin to be a very welcomed prospect.
 
messiah khan said:
It was the same when I was at uni. There were some lectures that were short and of no educational value at all. The amount that were cancelled really annoyed me as well. I paid a lot of money for tuition fees only to have 30-40% of my lectures cancelled. I probably would have lost all hope in uni if it wasn't for one Lecturer who had a passion for what he was teaching and didn't mess around.
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its like that everywhere I've been
you get lecturers who totaly don't give a **** about it, and you get one or two who REALY are interested and love the subject!
they tend to leave tho as they don't get paid much and are shunned by the ones who hate everyone and everything
 
Something I tend to agree with is that by the age of university you're not a child anymore, and the universities can't afford to mollycoddle you. They deal with a lot more students than a secondary school and you are expected to have, by now, attained the skills to also learn in your own time as well as lectures.
 
Maybe some of you guys aren't going to the best examples of higher education institutions in the country?
 
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