Lecturers
I'm supposed to be on their side because they're all getting laid off at the minute but really, they are such a bunch of bitches... if you don't turn up to their lectures, they seem to want you to fail. The Internet's been around for bloody ages, the university has Adobe CS5 so if you can't put handouts online that at least are as informational as Wikipedia, what exactly are you for?

Lets see how this exam goes...
(bagpuss606, Thu 27 May 2010, 13:46, 9 replies)

Informational?

( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Thu 27 May 2010, 13:48, closed)

You can tell I'm educated, can't you?
(bagpuss606, Thu 27 May 2010, 16:13, closed)

"Who's"?
www.b3ta.com/questions/professions/post737870
( Happy Phantom has been to Hastings, Brighton, and Eastbourne too, Thu 27 May 2010, 19:54, closed)

Hmm
In principle, you should be able to get a degree without going to lectures - that's why it's sometimes known as "reading for a degree" rather than "doing your A-levels again".

The purpose of lectures isn't to give you everything you need to know for your exams - you should be getting that from books and papers and thinking. The lectures are there to give you guidance. They introduce new topics, highlight particularly important issues and clear up common misunderstandings. But at the end of the day they're optional and not necessary for getting your degree. If you don't want to go to them then that's fine - but don't expect your lecturer to provide a full written summary of each lecture as well. If the handouts were as good as you seem to want them, what would be the point in the lectures?

[Edit: If Wikipedia if where you go for your research... well, lecturers have been known to change facts on there around the time they set essays to see who are the lazy sods who can't be bothered to check their facts. Know what I mean?]
( Olembe Refuses to write in this space, Thu 27 May 2010, 18:37, closed)

!
lecturers have been known to change facts on there around the time they set essays to see who are the lazy sods who can't be bothered to check their facts.

Really? Hmmmm...
*makes mental note for next essay-setting season*
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Thu 27 May 2010, 19:48, closed)

go on
I dare you to make up some complete bollocks and see what falls for it. Make sure you let us know.
(Kip, Sat 29 May 2010, 9:02, closed)

Fair enough, Olembe, if they made it as easy as I'd like it to be, the degree wouldn't be worth shit. But Wikipedia's indispensable for essays & usually it'll link you straight to a review paper from which you can copy & paste the references as if you actually did the research. Funny to think of the tutors trying to prank the students... bloody nerds wish everyone was like them with no drug habit.
(bagpuss606, Thu 27 May 2010, 21:36, closed)

"... as if you actually did the research..."
Trust us. We know you didn't.
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Sat 29 May 2010, 15:06, closed)

Thank fuck you're a Manc
thought for a moment that by Sod's Law you'd be one of my tutors.

So, when you publish something, you've actually read EVERY reference at the end? If you zoned out during the boring statistical bit, but you read all the rest, do you still include it or is that cheating?

My mate spent 4 years dissecting out beetle dicks for his PhD... are academics clever or stupid?
(bagpuss606, Mon 31 May 2010, 18:49, closed)