Student lecture notes have been, for the most part, neglected by histories concerning the educational tradition of the Scottish Enlightenment. In many of these histories, official university histories, or even professor lecture notes, are the far more popular choice of archival material. This neglect is not without cause. It rises from the distinct particularities of later eighteenth-century and early nineteenth-century Scottish lecture notes; namely, in the difficulty of reaching past the silence of the archives to access the perspective of the "boy on the benches." While it is true that authorship, date of creation, and marks of individual creation are sometimes impossible to uncover from documents produced by the environments of rote Scottish lecturing classrooms, this does not mean that other aspects of the student's lived experience was nowhere to be found within their pages. If not the lived perspective of the student, these documents certainly reveal a great deal about the nature of the Scottish lecturing environment. As such, the lecture notes of Scottish Enlightenment universities represent a underutilized way to glean potentially valuable information about the teaching method of professors and lived experiences of Scottish university students.