Constructive Deconstruction

On boring lectures and studying…

September 12, 2007 on 12:36 pm | In Reflections | No Comments

It’s 12.30pm in the afternoon and you’re sitting in the lecture theatre asking yourself, “What am I doing here?” Your eyes are fluttering and your head seems to be getting too heavy for your neck to support. What do you do?

While many struggle through to survive the lecture and subsequently leaving with little more than the satisfaction of being able to say, “Ok…I was disciplined enough to stay through it”, I say you should walk right out. Better still, grab a few friends who are suffering from the same problem!

What do you do then?

Go for lunch…Go grab a seat at the canteen before the bulk of the lunch crowd gathers to mob the place. After that, go find a corner with your above-mentioned best buddies and self study. In fact, do the tutorials together. Finish up your work. In no time, not only would you have learnt what would have taken you several lectures worth of time and countless hours figuring out what the lecturer said just before you dozed off, you’d also be able to learn in the synergy of a small and focused group.

I did that for a period in time…We even went ahead of the academic schedule.

…I need to start doing it again.