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Do you ever go to them? For college, work or just for fun?

And are they ever any good?

― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 10:06 (twenty-two years ago)

I went to my first lecture in about ten years on Monday night. It was in the ox uni Physics Dept. and was about the Mars Express/Beagle 2 mission.

― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 10:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Did Alex James and Damien Hirst lecture?

HSA and his mum went to a lecture on the Piltdown Man last night.

Now HSA is officially part of the faculty at City University, I might have to start going to some to see what it's all about.

― Citizen Kate (kate), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 10:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Did Alex James and Damien Hirst lecture?

unfortunately not! That would have made it tons more interesting! And the friend who invited me fell asleep!

― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 10:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Not even Dave?

HSA got me out of bed the other night to make me watch a special wherein Alex and Dave wandered around the dish of a radiotelescope at Jodrell Bank.

Taking sides: lectures vs. conferences.

HSA's mum spends a lot of time going to archeological conferences and they sound like a real rip-roaring time!

― Citizen Kate (kate), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 10:39 (twenty-two years ago)

somehow, the crapness of the lecture was in itself a way of making me misty eyed and nostalgic for my stoodie days, in that if it had been very interesting, lucid and well-presented I may have been pleased and informed but as it was I was kinda comforted to know that today's undergrads still put up with:

OHP slides with light grey text on a slightly lighter grey background

OHP slides in font size which is too small to read

OHP slides whipped off the projector so fast one doesn't have the chance to read them

ppl talking too fast

ppl talking in a monotone

ppl who don't know what they're talking about.

― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 10:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Sounds like meetings at my office.

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 10:49 (twenty-two years ago)

oh and there's also the "let's make a joke which we think will appeal to a student audience" bit - still very much alive. In this lecture it followed a list of all the probes which have ver been sent to Mars. The first two were Russian and were called Marsnik 1 & 2! Anyway, most of the probes have been lost in one way or another - some missed Mars, some never left earth orbit, some crashed into Mars or were destroyed in dust storms. As a way of showing this the lecturer put up a slide which simply read

Mars 33 - Earth 13.

― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 10:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Heh. Mars is winning.

Or maybe it's not! We never know how many probes the Martians have sent that have burned up in our atmosphere!

― Citizen Kate (kate), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 10:54 (twenty-two years ago)

a good deal of the lecture was spent trying to set up a video through Media Player so it would project onto a screen. They eventually succeeded - after the lecture had finished and most ppl had left the room!

― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 10:56 (twenty-two years ago)

yes markh, call yrself a student! you shd have put yr hand up and asked abt them probing us

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 10:56 (twenty-two years ago)

I went to a lecture on Posters advertising stamp issues the other day, it was more interesting than I ever dared hope.

― chris (chris), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 11:00 (twenty-two years ago)

I go to way too many lectures, especially 9am ones. But then falling asleep/listening is easier than trying to pick up science facts from books

― jellybean (jellybean), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 11:06 (twenty-two years ago)

the very first lectures I ever went to were when I was a sixth-former and they were held at (I think) East Herts FE College. they included a lecture on Sellafield where the lecturer reassured someone who'd asked a question from the floor abt its safety by saying "Millions of ppl go to the Sellafield Visitors Centre each year and they come back glowing with health!"

― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 11:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Boring answer, but last lecture I went to was yesterday. I plugged in my laptop to the data projector, stood at the front, and talked about Defoe.

― alext (alext), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 12:27 (twenty-two years ago)

did you show your students this picture?
http://eur.news1.yimg.com/eur.yimg.com/xp/empics/20030809/13/3418925263.jpg

― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 12:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Putting your hand up and saying "I didn't come here to be lectured" - classic or dud?

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 12:33 (twenty-two years ago)

One of my lecturers at uni would bring along hand-out sheets with a complete transcript of everything he said. He was place a pile of these at the front on the desk he stood behind. Ppl soon figured out there was little point coming to the lecture and, since the door was within reach of the aforementioned desk, occasionally the door would open, an arm would snake in, grab a pile of notes and go again.

― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 12:35 (twenty-two years ago)

nine years pass...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=9HAw1i4gOU4

this is long. lessig starts at 8 minutes. very, very worth it.

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 10 March 2013 22:59 (thirteen years ago)

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