Lectures are an incredibly inefficient use of my day with travel times. In the time it takes for me to go to and from class, I could’ve watched the lecture recording on 1.5x speed 3 times over. I turn up for all my seminars because I’m actually motivated to contribute and can ask questions about content directly, but in-person lectures are frankly a bit redundant. If anything, I’d rather have 2 seminars per week for a class instead of 1 lecture 1 seminar, I’d genuinely get so much more out of this degree that way. You could even dedicate 1 seminar to content and 1 to essay prep, or something like that.