I'm in a five week summer biology class and I have a classmate who is driving me crazy. She interrupts lecture every 2 minutes to ask questions and groans loadly everytime we go to a new ppt slide. Her questions are usually NOT clarification questions either. It usually goes like this:
Her: Oh, this is xxxxxx.
Instructor: No, xxxxxx is completely different.
Her: But it's similar to xxxxxx, right?
Instructor: No, not really, they are two completely different processes.
Her: Then what's xxxxxx?
Instructor: Well, we'll get to that later/that's not really related to this class.
Her: Okay, but it's sort of like this, right?
Instructor: Let's talk about it later.
Her: Okay.
We only have five weeks for this class and we are already a little behind because of her. Everytime she asks one of her stupid questions I can hear some guys behind me whispering to each other. I can't hear them well enough to tell what they are saying, but I am guessing it is not polite.
I couldn't help but laugh, as I've come to realize that wow!! Everybody has ONE of these classmates at some point or another! Thanks, everyone for the stories...and keep them coming because I feel relieved to know that I'm not the only person who keep getting these type of people in my classes!! LOL
I would imagine that at least one person here is probably THAT person.
BTW, this is just reason #189 that I'm glad to be taking online classes. I do have to deal with one like it on the message boards, though. She asks for help on several problems from each assignment and even went as far as to post about how she thinks the teacher doesn't like her because she ignores her posts. I try to help her when I can but I think most of us have gotten tired of having to hold her hand and walk her through the course.
Oh wow! Does she even realize that the instructor can see what she is writing?
I think a big part of it is people that are so used to having attention, they don't know how to act when all eyes aren't on them. It's funny and disturbing all at the same time.
Lajimolala, BSN, RN, NP
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I couldn't help but laugh, as I've come to realize that wow!! Everybody has ONE of these classmates at some point or another! Thanks, everyone for the stories...and keep them coming because I feel relieved to know that I'm not the only person who keep getting these type of people in my classes!! LOL