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"What if you sat in on university lectures without enrolling?"
There is something quietly thrilling about walking into a lecture hall in Trinity or UCC with no exam looming over you. You can finally just listen. You might stumble into a talk on marine biology or medieval Irish history and discover a subject you never knew you loved. Without the pressure of grades, your brain actually absorbs things differently. You leave feeling sharper, a little more interesting at the dinner table, and genuinely surprised by what set your mind racing.
Sinéad (37), Dungarvan — works in accounts payable at a food co-op, has been meaning to read more non-fiction since 2019
I drove up to Cork on a Tuesday in February because UCC had a free public lecture on coastal erosion along the Munster coastline and I thought, well, that's actually relevant to me.
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