Crashing a Politics Lecture...

So this morning Sarah and I underwent the next mission on our Bucket List. To crash another courses lecture, and by crash we mean sneak in under the radar and sit there like a pair of geeks making more notes than the actual course students.  Our friends assured us that it was a big lecture and there was no chance of us possibly being spotted by the lecturer, by big class, they meant the top attendance of 10 students.

Being final year history  (and English) students, we wanted to attend a lecture that was different, something creative, but instead we opted for politics.

To be perfectly honest, I, myself, was not intending to find the lecture at all interesting. This is primarily because two days before the lecture I was talking to my friends who study politics and revealed that I wasn’t even entirely sure what government Britain was currently under. I know, shocking. Sarah on the other hand studied politics for A-level, so was somewhat more clued up to the political world.

Though Sarah and I went into the lecture and quite possibly enjoyed it far more than we intended and took around 4 pages of notes each, we did also ensure that we didn’t miss the opening sale of Arctic Monkeys tickets and made sure we purchased a pair whilst the lecturer was discussing the Economic Development of Latin America.

What did we learn? Erm… that politics is geography? International development, external economic market pressures, economic improvement, industrialisation, ISI’s and Neoliberalism are all terms that cross over what appears to be politics, geography and of course, history. The words conservative, election, franchise, revolution, were never uttered once. The lecture therefore, proved not only to be surprisingly interesting but also opened our eyes to the world of politics (marginally) and highlighted that there’s more to it than just sitting around in parliament shouting at one another about the best way to avoid paying taxes on their second homes.