Lazy Students
So I'm guilty of not being the most active of students (I can when I want to be).

However this laziness refers to an academic laziness. The type where they expect everything to be handed to them on a plate.

The exact details are inconsequential, but it really grinds my gears when speaking to fellow students about one topic or another, they express amazement that I know something that wasn't taught in a lecture. Then they follow it up with comments of 'how come we weren't taught that?' or 'We didn't get taught it so it won't come up on the exam'. Well actually it might, because, you know, it demonstrates that you're sufficiently intelligent enough to read a book, and put two and two together!

It's because the lecturers do have better things to do than recite whole books at you. We have a library for a reason, it's called studying. Books are written for a reason, to convey knowledge (and to make some money, but hey, we all have to live).

Use it.

Don't just assume that you'll get taught everything about a subject, you won't, subjects are huge, lectures have a limited amount of time. 1 hour.

And they wonder why I'm getting quite good marks...
( mister.f is now married, Sun 4 May 2008, 18:58, Reply)