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In my first two years, i didn't even try going to 8am classes after 1st week. And i know alot of engineering classmates who were like this. But i did end up going to 8am classes in my 4th year. Is it because you mature or because courses are actually related to you? I don't know.

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While I was like this, some engineering classes scheduled quizzes in the morning. Skipping these were detrimental to my grades. With the benefit of hindsight, my behaviour of skipping morning classes was incredibly stupid, but at the time made perfect sense from my limited worldview.

it's interesting that traditional hard subjects seem to have this tradition of early morning lectures, at least in my experience.

Flatmates doing Math, Chemistry and Physics and we all had early lectures.

Chap doing Philosophy would complain, quite a bit, about his Tuesdays as he had a 10:00 lecture.

I had roughly 8 times the contact hours that my theology housemate had, so it's fairly likely that I would be starting earlier than them most days.

Math and science classes in the morning so you can have labs in the afternoon/evenings.

I'm experiencing this right now. My first 3 semesters or so, classes before 10am were both difficult to go to and difficult to get anything out of. Yet without changing any of my habits, getting up earlier is far easier. I'd lean towards this being due to maturing, but it's naturally quite difficult to say when my sample size is myself.

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