Quote:
Originally posted by Dron_Cah:
Hmm, very curious, Bungleau. Oh, and I found the most annoying thing, now that i'm in college. People who think they are smart, but... uh, aren't. lol! I can't help it, it just gets on my nerves. Maybe I was just in a humble class, or something, but no one played the "teacher's pet," or the "know it all." Maybe I'm just in a bad mood, but there's something about these people that grates on my sensibilities.
|
There's always a few of those. The type of idiot that sits at the front and asks long rambling "questions" that are only designed to show off the amount of "knowledge" they have already. The best you can do is to ignore them, or if it gets really bad, to speak to the prof about the disruptions in class. Sometimes you get a cool teacher who will shoot them down without prompting.
I had one class in first year where it got really bad (and I mean REALLY BAD). The prof was too nice to shoot the nimwit down, and let him ramble on. We (us at the back of the room, who sat there so as to get less of the effect from the guy's high whiny voice) took a tally and did some calculations. Seventeen interruptions, averaging about 90 seconds apiece, was the worst. In ONE one-hour class!!! It was probably the most annoying episode (to date) of my university experience - this was a prolonged episode, mind you. A year-long class, three classes a week, at least eight interruptions per class. Even after some appeals to the prof and quite a few loud sarcastic comments from the back row. It got better after about three months of this crap. Why? Not because the guy ran out of pointless and self-praising things to say, but because a fuming member of the class started leaving death threats in the whiny guy's backpack. [img]graemlins/wow.gif[/img] About as subtle and nice as a bulldozer, but effective. I was happy to have the guy shut up, regardless of the method (ends justify the means...). My appreciation of the tactic wasn't my most shining moment, but the relief of not hearing that guy's voice was incredible. I'm usually a pretty patient guy, but I had to grit my teeth every class.
Re: the English experience - sometimes you just have to get through a class, but... Can you drop it or switch to another section? I find that it can be worth it. I don't learn well from teachers I don't respect and who don't respect me. You're paying big money for the class, so you have the right to learn on your own terms.
On a different but related topic (since it was in the thread), I can't stand much of the cellphone usage either. Many people are reasonably good about it, but some just have no idea about minimal common courtesy. It's not an especially big issue here in classes, but the bus is bad. It's worst when there's fifty people on the bus and the culprit "has" to shout into the phone. One reason why I never go on the bus without a discman.