All of the lectures at UiO are actually open to anyone as far as I know. You don’t need to be a student there or anything. You can just walk right in. And as long as you are quiet, and the room is not too full, I think it’s ok.
But considering how inexpensive university education is in Norway, it may be an even better idea to sign up for classes because then you get to deliver assignments and get them graded and so on.
Then again, when I attended university at UiO a lot of the intro classes were not inspiring. (And the same is probably true for most any university I think.) And I ended up not finishing my degree at UiO. So going to some lectures for the topics that you find the most interesting instead of enrolling as a student may not be such a bad idea either.
One of the things I enjoyed the most about my time at UiO was this student union that was there. Lots of really skillful people were members of that student union and I learned quite a bit from some of them. I spent a lot of time in the location of that student union.
In fact I can probably say, honestly, that I spent more time in that student union than I did in classes. Other members of that student union was also how I got to know about HN originally. This was over a decade ago now.
It was a special place, and I am so happy that it existed and that I got to experience it.
The building that we had our location in was eventually decommissioned and we got new location in a basement without windows. This killed the student union. No one wanted to hang out in a room deep down in a basement with no windows. And this new location was very inaccessible too, you had to walk through many corridors down in the basement to get to the room.
Some of the people that had been doing the most for that student union started a new hacker space in Oslo. I’ve only been to the new hacker space a couple of times but it’s a pretty nice place too I think.
The website of the student union continued to run on a server at UiO for several years after activity stopped, but the server went down a while back. I guess either the University Center for Information Technology (USIT) at UiO did a cleanup in the server rooms and found no one to speak to about the server, or they were informed that the student union was inactive, or the hardware in the server may have just malfunctioned after years of operation.
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All of the lectures at UiO are actually open to anyone as far as I know. You don’t need to be a student there or anything. You can just walk right in. And as long as you are quiet, and the room is not too full, I think it’s ok.
But considering how inexpensive university education is in Norway, it may be an even better idea to sign up for classes because then you get to deliver assignments and get them graded and so on.
Then again, when I attended university at UiO a lot of the intro classes were not inspiring. (And the same is probably true for most any university I think.) And I ended up not finishing my degree at UiO. So going to some lectures for the topics that you find the most interesting instead of enrolling as a student may not be such a bad idea either.
One of the things I enjoyed the most about my time at UiO was this student union that was there. Lots of really skillful people were members of that student union and I learned quite a bit from some of them. I spent a lot of time in the location of that student union.
In fact I can probably say, honestly, that I spent more time in that student union than I did in classes. Other members of that student union was also how I got to know about HN originally. This was over a decade ago now.
It was a special place, and I am so happy that it existed and that I got to experience it.
The building that we had our location in was eventually decommissioned and we got new location in a basement without windows. This killed the student union. No one wanted to hang out in a room deep down in a basement with no windows. And this new location was very inaccessible too, you had to walk through many corridors down in the basement to get to the room.
Some of the people that had been doing the most for that student union started a new hacker space in Oslo. I’ve only been to the new hacker space a couple of times but it’s a pretty nice place too I think.
The website of the student union continued to run on a server at UiO for several years after activity stopped, but the server went down a while back. I guess either the University Center for Information Technology (USIT) at UiO did a cleanup in the server rooms and found no one to speak to about the server, or they were informed that the student union was inactive, or the hardware in the server may have just malfunctioned after years of operation.