Why you should attend your lectures!

Many students will attend tutorials because tutorials will not repeat itself, it's compulsory and in some units the attendance is marked! So we don't need to tell you to go to your tutorials. However lectures is something that has not received as much importance as tutorials as most students believe that it is easy to miss and catch up. Many students have this mindset but it is a bad mindset to have...

This is a bit of a no-brainer and you must of heard this many times but you must attend lectures! This is because it's easier said than done. Many of you will probably start off your first semester all pumped and ready to attend all your lectures and tutorials. You'll probably attend lectures for the first few weeks, then perhaps you'll start to lose motivation and start skipping some lectures. This is VERY common for a lot of uni students. Many students start to skip lectures because: 

They lack motivation 
It's easy to lack motivation so try to find a friend to go to lectures with you or think about the bigger picture, about how worth it going to the lecture will be. 

They think they can catch up (typical saying, i'll just echo it) 
It's easy to think that skipping a 1 or 2 hour lecture is nothing and that you'll easily catch up but be careful with this mindset. It is very easy to go from catching up on one lecture to catching up to a whole semesters worth of lectures! Be careful not to fall into this routine. 

Their friends aren't going anymore (peer pressure) 
If your friends/classmates aren't going to a lecture and rather hang out, it's hard not to say yes to the hang out because you want to make friends and not feel embarrassed. It is true that you should spend time making friends however you should not jeopardize your studies for it! Think of yourself, at the end of the semester you're the only person who is responsible for the grade you got.

It is also so important to attend lectures because: 
- Some lectures may not have echo recordings! 
- You may not be as engaged with the lecture watching it online than in person 
- You may not be able to catch up and fall behind 

It's understandable if you're sick or have other commitments and can't attend one week however if you're not sick, attend all your lectures s you don't fall behind! When it comes to final exam period you'll thank yourself for attending every week and getting those extra notes from the lectures. You learn a lot better by consuming information gradually rather than being those students who try to cram a whole semesters worth of information before the final exam!

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