Vent: Irritating classmates

[AmyLiz]

I've had to put up with the same obnoxious people for 2 quarters now. I swear, they're following me! :chuckle

In my A&P class there are 3 gals who get on absolutely everyone's nerves. They're always immaculately groomed - which is fine...I'd rather see people "together" than "disheveled", but we're talking not a hair out of place, dressed to the nines, nails perfectly manicured & polished. Most of us in the class (it's an evening class) work all day & come straight from the job...some are in scrubs, most others in jeans & sweatshirts or sweaters. We're tired, old & grouchy! :chuckle Then we see these gals sitting there in class, flirting with the instructor & every one of us would like to have words with them. Yesterday one of them gave the instructor some hard candy "for his breath" after class & they all asked him to come to the bio lab after he was done teaching his lab so that he could "help them".

They're in my lab class too & demand attention from him constantly. They're always flirting, making suggestive comments, etc. One day in class he was explaining a system & afterward they demanded "private instruction" (their exact words). They hadnt' been paying attention in the first place.

One of them has really irritated everyone in that she is the LAST PERSON DONE with the lecture exams. On exam day, we take the test, turn it in & leave, usually before the end of the class. She takes the test the entire class time & usually has to take it into our instructor's next class in order to finish it. Now, if she has a learning disability (I don't think she does, usually they have you take exams in the testing center) fine...but this is just nuts.

They stay after everyone else leaves in lab...chatting away with the instructor.

It's just sooo.....ANNOYING! :angryfire

I'd say they're all in their late 20's. They shouldn't be trolling for married instructors or flirting to get better grades. The rest of us work hard for our grades & don't appreciate them trying other methods to improve their gpa. It makes us all sick.

Unfortunately there's nothing we can really do about it. Obviously the instructor doesn't have a problem with it. He buys right into it. They did the same thing last quarter with that instructor too...the only thing being that he didn't buy into it as much. He gave us an hour to complete our tests...that one gal...she never was finished in time, so we would all have to wait on her so that we could go through the tests (he didn't let us leave after we were done).

I guess I'm not looking for anything by posting this...just getting it off of my chest. Only a week and a half left. I sure hope none of these gals are in any of my other classes.

[AmyLiz]

Good for you! I hope they shut up after that!

I just took my final in that class, so I'm done with that class. Now it's a nice relaxing spring break!!

[NZ_RN]

There is a problem with high maintenance when a classmate of mine saw her assigned (a very good looking 28 year old) pt.'s call light on, and said "OMG i'll be right back!! i need LIPGLOSS before i go in there!" Aw COME ON!! He's ringing for his pain med, the kidney stone hurts, he could care less if you had a whole head of spinach stuck between your front teeth, really.

I would have to say that high maintenance is definately taken too far sometimes. I just hope that she wouldn't do that if he coded. But then again she HAS verbalized that she's into nursing to find a doctor to marry, then she'll quit. Actually heard her say this. Proudly.

(And if someone might think of that as jealous, then someone's going to have to tell me what to be jealous of, because it's been nothing so far.)

Are people like these motivated to be nurses for the right reasons?

How do they stick it out through the hard graft of the academic workload plus clinical? I thought people like that only existed on TV in soaps and bad made for TV movies.

Does anyone else find it hard juggling study with clinical placements and working on the side?

What I find hard is the super women in my course who have six children and no husband around who hand things in a week early! OK, maybe not a week but they are super organised. Makes me feel inadequate when I struggle just to look after myself while studying full time and make it to all my lectures and meet deadlines.

Can anyone relate?

[anney1981]

I totally am there with you!!!I am in nursing school, married with no children (except my cat). The woman that sits next to me is a single mother with 3 kids that are all under 17. I don't understand where she gets her energy. She mothers them, gets ALL of her reading done and still goes to bed at 9. I'm in bed at 2 am and I still don't get it all done. Oh well... Poor time managemen. Oh yeah...About the 3 annoying girls...At least they don't do a comparison of what is being lectured to a member of their families. I have a girl in my class (we stay in the same classroom all day, tues-fri) and someone in her family has had whatever is being discussed. Like we care... I just laugh really loud and hope that my obnoxiouness (not a word) will pay off....

[Energizer Bunny]

I finally lost my cool today in class. And i'm so proud of me

That same dang group in the back would NOT shut up AGAIN. So as usual, on my break, i checked my digital recorder to see how well it picked up the instructor's lecture. Despite this thing being 3 ft from the instructor, it wound up being drowned out by the Giggle Squad in the back.

So when class got together after break was over, i cranked up the volume on this reorder and played a few seconds of it to a silent class, holding it in the air. I then said "I paid good money for this recorder. I paid good money to be here for nursing class and lecture. And this interferes with all of that."

You could have heard a pin drop for the remaining 4 hours.

Good for you!!!! I am not one to hold my tongue long either, so if I encounter this when I go back in the fall, you can bet I'll be speaking up. Maybe they just don't take their education seriously, huh? One day they will realize what they had.

[Energizer Bunny]

I finally lost my cool today in class. And i'm so proud of me

That same dang group in the back would NOT shut up AGAIN. So as usual, on my break, i checked my digital recorder to see how well it picked up the instructor's lecture. Despite this thing being 3 ft from the instructor, it wound up being drowned out by the Giggle Squad in the back.

So when class got together after break was over, i cranked up the volume on this reorder and played a few seconds of it to a silent class, holding it in the air. I then said "I paid good money for this recorder. I paid good money to be here for nursing class and lecture. And this interferes with all of that."

You could have heard a pin drop for the remaining 4 hours.

Good for you!!!! I am not one to hold my tongue long either, so if I encounter this when I go back in the fall, you can bet I'll be speaking up. Maybe they just don't take their education seriously, huh? One day they will realize what they had.

[eternaldaisy]

I had a girl in my class who was late almost everyday and instead of quietly coming in and taking a seat, she would slam her books down on the desk and loudly say "you guys will never guess what happened to me" . She would precede to tell her story. The instructor would be giving lecture and she acted like she didn't even notice. When she did listen to lecture she would interrupt every 5 minutes to inform everyone that someone in her family had that or did that or whatever. One time when the instructor stopped her from disrupting the class she ran out crying hysterically. What a drama queen!

[CseMgr1, ASN, RN]

I had to sit behind a girl for TWO consecutive quarters in A&P, who, every time we got an assignment or she got a grade she didn't like, would moan aloud: "Oh, f---!"

I don't know what I hated most about that class: having to learn the 12 Cranial Nerves, or listen to her say the "F" word a gozillion times.... :angryfire