In every class I took in college, 5-10 minutes to the end, I'd ruffle some papers and zip the zipper on my back pack to end class early because "student close up noises" are contagious.
Without fail the class would end a few minutes early. As soon as I started making the sounds it was like dominoes. Ten minutes left in the lecture but everyone has all their stuff put away and are putting their coats on. I think of this often. May this knowledge set you free a few minutes early.
it makes sense that you so smugly declare this knowledge, "people can hear me". wow. and of course "being rude is contagious". well right back at you, prick.
no I'm not joking. you brag about being an asshole, I'm going to treat you like an asshole
This is common behavior, people just have underdeveloped brains under 25 and are clueless. the younger the folks the more likely but op claims they already should be past that so looks like they have some developmental delays
Typically redditor behavior is learning one or two things about someone and then making grand claims about who the person is or what they do. It's some seriously delusional shit, childish shit. Grow up.
Honestly who cares about few minutes when you can learn something more, I am there to listen. If I want to chat or play games on my phone like my mates I just won't show up at all cause what's the point. What's the point of going to the lecture and playing on your phone?
Similarly, few minutes at the end won't save me and If I really need to go I can just go to exit at any time, quietly.
I spend big money for these minutes so I am gonna make use of all of them. I paid for it
LOL. I've seen that happen many times. One of my classmates also did that intentionally every now and then.
It was a different country, different system etc. so USA specific things didn't apply. I totally get it why everyone here seems to be so outraged about it, but in this case, it was mostly harmless fun.
Here's how it usually went. You make some close up noises, and watch how other students start packing even though we're nowhere near done yet. The point is that you only make the noises, but don't actually put your books in your backpack. People react to that noise, and assume that everyone else is also packing up already. You have effectively triggered an avalanche. Some people eventually started heading for the door, and that's when the teacher realized what was happening, and had to tell everyone to calm down and take a seat.
Your teacher is human. They are there because they want to help you get the information that you need to be a successful person as an individual and in society. They see the class packing up early and it really stings because they care about you and their subject’s impact on the world.
If you don’t want to be an educated member of a democracy, just save yourself the student loan bills and don’t come in the first place.
Lmao, this happened in High School and the teachers were like: "Why are you all packing up? Class is not over" then when the bell rings: "tHe bELl doESn't diSmISS yOu, i dO!"
What a waste of time and money, and holy unbelievably disrespectful. If it’s not undergrads just playing on their phone or computer the whole time they do this. Why even go to college?
This reminds me of high school and the teachers yelling at people who tried to do this. Most of them wouldn't let us put our stuff away until the bell and then the next teacher expected us to be there at the bell, amazing.
In the UK we had to be told explicitly not to move before or after the bell rang, until the teacher said we were allowed to (which usually wasn't long after to be fair). Wed all been conditioned by American movies were they just get up immediately to leave, lol
yeah right? I have ADHD and I can barely focus in silence, let alone with all the stuff people tend to do during lectures (even eating pickles). More often than not there seems to be whole meetings going on and unless I sit somewhere in the front I will end up talking too or spectating some league of legends gameplay
This is annoying because on the one hand you want to see what people are up to but on the other I pay for the lectures and want to learn so I am constantly maddeningly torn between daily socialization and learning
For me another part is the total lack of empathy these people have for the lecturer and those who are listening. Like come on you are sitting shoulder to shoulder to someone who is trying to listen to someone much further away than you are. Like I would imagine engineering students would have an understanding of the square cube law but I guess not. On top of that this is a room literally designed to amplify the sounds made inside of it.
AND ON TOP OF THAT apparently they don't even want to be there and delight in intentionally turning the last 10 minutes (about 8% of a 2hr lecture) into an unlearnable environment. Ahhhhhhhh
During high school I'd always hang around the class room after class to chat with the teachers; mostly because a large part of the other students were bullying me at the time and I wanted to avoid them/take my mind off of things.