Here's a list of things that many people in our class seemed to have missed in manners school.
1. Putting your feet on the seats. Actually, I'm pretty ok with this... usually. But if I'm sitting in front of you and you prop your feet up next to me... they better be CUTE and NOT SMELLY. Girls, you're the worst offenders. No funk, gangreen, nasty 3 month old polish, toe jam, hairy toes, etc. Put those back in your shoes. On the floor. Luckily, the girl that normally sits behind me has lovely feet. It's when I get stuck sitting elsewhere that I get into trouble.
2. So our school costs some $51,000 odd dollars just for tuition (which in my case was a little more than I had laying around in a mayo jar in the backyard). Hence, I am really interested in hearing the lecture. REALLY. I'm not hanging out in class because of the cute med student who sits by me... or because I'm waiting for Handsome Willy's happy hour to start. So please, to those of you who TALK FOR THE ENTIRE LECTURE... it really makes things difficult on everyone else. Yes we CAN hear you. Every word. You haven't figured out the difference between whispering and talking. Does everybody talk occasionally in class? Yes, of course. But I'm talking out the endless chatter that goes on between the same people every class. And at the risk of sounding like your mama, it's seriously rude. The speaker is flustered. The course director is embarrassed. And your classmates are really irritated. At you. You there. You know who you are.
3. To the girls who knit in class, you aren't really supposed to be in this category. I think you rock. I wish I would have thought of learning to knit... long before my creative energy was sucked away by Netter. I am so envious... and always peeking over to see what new cool things you're doing.
4. Packing up on the last slide before the professor finishes. They're always practically screaming to be heard over the iphones, the zippers, the papers, rustling, etc. I mean, really.. it's like 45 seconds. Is everyone in class always 45 seconds late for something? If the speaker didn't think the last slide was important, he would have ended on the previous one. Right? Just hang out.
A Family's Cry...
5 years ago
EEEEEE gad. I thought this was only the juveniles who inhabit general chemistry or other freshman/sophomore classes.
ReplyDeleteIt happens in med school!?
/bonk
Haha, similarities abound.
ReplyDeleteComment on #1. I'm generally fine with this sort of thing, as well, and thankfully have not encountered many funky feet. However, in high school, I always got stuck sitting in front of the kids who would violently place their feet on the basket-like thing under my seat. Getting jostled around by those actions was annoying. I'd have said "distracting," but that would imply that I was focused. Whoops.
Comment on #2. I am deeply saddened to learn that this behaviour is found in medical school, as well. That was one of the things I hated most when taking all of my gen ed requirements, and why I so very much looked forward to classes with what I'd imagined would be far more serious students -- organic chemistry, in particular. Of course, they were there, too. Even more annoying was the fact that they made far better grades than me. Die. I'd been taking comfort in the fact that when (if) I make it to med school, there'd be serious students just like me but I guess that dream is out the window.
Comment on #4. (Exasperated groans) That one baffles me, as well. Even when I had a lab clear across campus ten minutes after a particularly mind-numbing and spirit-crushing lecture, I remained seated until the professor had concluded...even if it was several minutes after our scheduled departure time. I began taking revenge on some of them, though, by occupying end-of-row seats and not budging until the professor was finished, no matter how many people were stacked up in line waiting on me to move my legs. Even more frustrating for them and amusing for me was that I did everything in my power to act as though they did not exist. Of course, I would've allowed passage should someone have asked...but no one ever did!
oh, man. this is what I dread most about next year. I cannot stand stranger's feet anywhere near me. this and the gum chewers. I mean, if you are training for a professional career, you should not be chewing gum. and no one, not even George Clooney, looks good chewing gum. no one.
ReplyDeletedo the lecturers ever say anything to the rude last-slide-packer-uppers? they should make test questions based on every last slide!
Oddly, the professors never really say anything. They just kinda get louder and talk over it. It makes me nuts though.
ReplyDeleteSidenote~ when I was at Harvard, this NEVER happened, which was one thing I loved. The students sat enraptured all class, dead silent, and many (most?) stayed after class to pester the prof with questions. It was incredible.
Talking was a big problem in my med school lectures as well..... and then I moved to the front row, and it never bothered me again! Of course, then I was "that loser who sits in the front row," but then, I was always that loser anyway, just sitting in the back unable to see or hear.
ReplyDeleteGet one of the knitters to teach you!! It sounds like such a relaxing way to listen to a lecture, and I don't think it's that hard. Spoken by the girl who has thrown her knitting across the room on previous attempts to learn herself....