Lecture Crashing

[dave_c]

Being just plain nosey, and being in a city clustered with universities, I'm really interested on what goes on certain/various lectures. Do you a lecturer would generally mind if I simply gatecrash one of their lectures? Truth is I miss uni!

[Hermia]

To think of all those students desperately trying to get out of going to lectures and you're voluntarily wanting to go to one! I expect you'd need to approach the university first. Both of the uni's I went to had security passes and guards so you wouldn't even get in the door if you weren't a student.

[Aschenbach]

Try to find a lecture on Dilettantism!

[january_bug]

Hey, as Hermia said, some have security passes etc. But I know for a fact that (unless they installed them since August) Manchester doesn't have such a system on many of its lecture halls. Obviously if you're much over 30 you'll stand out a mile, and you'd have to take pot luck about what you'd be listening to as it's not like the subject of each lecture is posted outside the room each day! Although I guess if you looked on the uni's website you could probably find out.

I would say that the lecturer would probably be very flattered, but that university security may be a little less understanding. If you want to listen, but obviously you won't sit the exams so won't get the degree at the end, I'd have thought a university would look favourably upon a polite request in writing.

I hope you find something interesting to listen to, or that you haven't forgotten the perfected art of sleeping in lectures, if you accidently end up in a physics lecture!!! :-p :-)

[c00ky83]

Just turn up! It's that simple. Best not to do it in mid-term though, but if you turned up at the start when everyone's new you'd get away with it. At Durham only the library was visibly restricted.

Hope you soon find something better to do!

[CT]

Oi, Jan_bug. Some physics lectures can be boring, but others are fascinating. Some of the module I took were things such as cosmology, Galaxies, Stellar Structure, Special relativity.
At my uni in Leicester, there are often lectures put on, and anyone can turn up. People come in to talk about thing they work on for students and anyone who is interested.

[january_bug]

Ok - fair point... it's only boring to people who haven't got enough of a "science brain" to understand them. I count myself, FIRMLY in that group! lol

[CT]

I'll let you off J_B. I know you do Law, a few of my friends do that. Certainly not got the attitude for that. I've seen the stuff they have to do and I know that my brain doesnt work that way.

[kazza12345]

go to lectures on a full time course and youll never be noticed - dont go to part time ones - in my last part time module there was only 10 of us and i guess you'd be noticed then

[Morrisonker]

Stick to first year lectures if you can, more students mean less chance of you being busted. I've never heard of there being security outside lectures, that must mean there are hundreds of poeple just standing about! I'm at Aberdeen Uni and it's so easy just to walk into a lecture, I've sat in with friends if there's been something I could use for an essay and so on. I've taken my non-student boyfriend into lectures with me and never had any problems.