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[highlyeccentric]

i'm on an information high.... it's like sitting down to a three course meal after months on bread and water... i was actually shaking by the end of Anglo-Saxon Norse and Celtic, i hadn't had to think or write that fast for about four months :D

why is it that an hour lecture takes two hours to decode or summarise, incidentally?

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[lepsdavid.livejournal.com]

why is it that an hour lecture takes two hours to decode or summarise, incidentally?

The key word there is decode, It may not always seem like it but everything said in a lecture is done so in code... The purpose of this is actually more good intentioned than you might suspect at first. Many people assume lectures are encoded to make the lecturer sound more intelligent, whilst it is a fringe benefit it is not the main reason. The fact that the encoded is a way of weeding out the students who don't work or think from the ones that do! Lets face it, if you can crack the code then you may in fact learn something... which you can then use in an assignment... someone who doesn't go to that effort is likely to have problems (they may still pass, but they won't do well enough for something like honours)

All that said of course I am probably talking total crap.

[highlyeccentric.livejournal.com]

nono, the code is Amy Notetaking. Needs to be rearranged into coherent stuff... result being that seven pages of notes often gets 'summarised' into ten pages...

[highlyeccentric.livejournal.com]

possibly your principle applies to science or engineering or maybe even teaching. useful stuff that people need. whereas the Arts faculty make things As Simple As Possible, so that you do well and they get funding. However they make it As Interesting As Possible, filling it with interesting facts, and i get sidetracked and note down the interesting facts rather than the whole point of the lecture. Takes some sorting to figure out the relation between facts and lecture topic. Even directly after the lecture...

[lepsdavid.livejournal.com]

Perhapsing you have forgotten, my degree was an arts degree... What you have described there is a common code university lectures, arts lectures do use it to greater effect but it is nevertheless one of the codes.

[highlyeccentric.livejournal.com]

now, you need to get into the habit of saying 'my first degree', or 'my undergrad degree', and similar things, so as to enhance your aura of academic snobbery :P

[lepsdavid.livejournal.com]

Once again you prove much needed words of wisdom...

[highlyeccentric.livejournal.com]

provide?

[rxgra.livejournal.com]

I was going to suggest that the answer to your question is "because you're doing Anglo-Saxon Norse and Celtic".

[highlyeccentric.livejournal.com]

it's a broader phenomenom which i have observed in most of my classes... however you could be onto something, it may be the fault of my class choices.