1) Invest in small portable cassette recorder.
2) Give above to friend.
3) Get above friend to record lecture.
4) Go to UAS town night.
5) Return to UH (you really should have tried harder at school)
6) Listen to cassette and borrow friend's lecture notes.
and do stop whining.
A bit of a trek? In my day peeps attended Brompton Road training nights from the wilds of Shoreditch, tore themselves away from the girlies at Royal Holloway (out near Windsor or Staines or somewhere) and even dragged themselves in from Reading.