do you ever just wanna yell..."Would you SHUT UP already???"

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I guess there's always gotta be one in every class, you know they type that can't resist saying..."well I work at such-n-such place and we do it this way...." ON EVERY TOPIC!!! or ask 20 questions where all the answers from the teacher are "yes" because it's some elementary ? that they are just asking to let everyone know they already know something. Im gonna start bringing water balloons to class and throwing 'em at people who can't SHUT UP!!! :chuckle

oh and btw....can y'all quit tappin and clickin your pens!!!!! :angthts:

feel free to add your frustrations, and what should be done with these people!

Specializes in Extended Care, Med/Surg , Palliative,.

I am that student that was so irritated by everything...it has always been my nature to be easily irritated. I used to yell at my little brother when I could hear him chewing...(sorry bout that!) I also had the best grades in every one of my classes, so the people who struggled and asked questions on things we had just covered 3 times drove me around the bend!!!! There was one girl who especially drove me nuts, so could not pronounce anything ...ever. She even mispronounced a disease that she has!

My heart goes out to all of you on my side. I learned a long time ago that God must be trying to teach me patience in this life! This will happen in every class! Everywhere!

One thing that did resolve annoying behavior like pen clicking, was to nicely tell the person who does it constantly (my peeve is LOUD gum chewing) that that habit of theirs distracts me to the point where I can't learn anything while I am hearing that noise. To those that have yet to start a new class..perhaps in the next day or two...if you have a time where they go around the class introducing yourself, and telling the class some things about yourself...add in a joking lighthearted way (but serious enough they know you are not totally kidding) that your biggest pet peeve is loud gum chewing (insert your peeve here) most people will agree with you silently that it bugs them too...and the one person in class that does it will be more aware of their habit. By making my peeve known from the start allowed me to kindly tell people when they chewed gum in my ear loudly, that it was distracting me. If I was a ***** about it people may have done it just to **** me off.:banghead:

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Oh we had a couple of the "know it alls". The ones who would answer the questions before the teacher barely had a chance to answer. The worst part about it they were usually the students with grades lower than most. I hate to also say that we had a few that no matter how many times the teacher, other students explained they just didn't get it and while lecture was going on they would ask you or any classmates around them distracting everyone. We even had this girl who was a 1000 question a class person but if anyone else did what she did she would huff and mumble under her breath. :banghead:

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how about the one that says that you do not belong in nursing school unless you have worked in a hospital already???? gotta love that elitist stuff huh? lol

I don't get into the drama but i do find it amusing to watch the personalities unfold. I am too busy trying not to flunk out and trying to figure out who will be with me for the rest of the class, personally. I don't want to burn any bridges when I don't know which ones I will need 6 months from now. :)

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All I can say is I ask questions alot. they are related to the topic and a few people (there are only 15 in the class) tell me they are glad I had asked specific questions, because they hadn't thought about that disease, syndrome or whatever in that way. So, never count your chickens before they're hatched. What I hate the most is when people answer their cell phones or walk out of class (I am right by the door) to answer the phone, or better yet talk thru the whole lecture and I can't hear a dang word that is being said, so yes I am the one who asks the teacher to repeat what was said, even though they just finished talking about it. Sorry bout that guys!

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All I can say is I ask questions alot. they are related to the topic and a few people (there are only 15 in the class) tell me they are glad I had asked specific questions, because they hadn't thought about that disease, syndrome or whatever in that way. So, never count your chickens before they're hatched. What I hate the most is when people answer their cell phones or walk out of class (I am right by the door) to answer the phone, or better yet talk thru the whole lecture and I can't hear a dang word that is being said, so yes I am the one who asks the teacher to repeat what was said, even though they just finished talking about it. Sorry bout that guys!

Wow if we stepped out to answer our cellphones we might as well just leave cause we would not have been aloud back in. I do think at some point we are glad for the good questions.

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All I can say is I ask questions alot. they are related to the topic and a few people (there are only 15 in the class) tell me they are glad I had asked specific questions, because they hadn't thought about that disease, syndrome or whatever in that way. So, never count your chickens before they're hatched. What I hate the most is when people answer their cell phones or walk out of class (I am right by the door) to answer the phone, or better yet talk thru the whole lecture and I can't hear a dang word that is being said, so yes I am the one who asks the teacher to repeat what was said, even though they just finished talking about it. Sorry bout that guys!

Asking on-topic questions is always completly fine with me. It's when they go off on wild story-telling tangents that have nothing to do with the subject we're talking about....personal stories that take the lecture into the far reaches of the galaxy, etc.....drives me batty.

I'm cool with people asking questions that are actually relevant because most of the time, other people need clarification too. I just don't want to know about family members' herpes.

I think the guy from today is gonna soon learn a hard lesson in HIPPA!

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our school is very loose on the rules and the younger (I am 44) students find it okay to walk out and take calls about their kids and jobs and such. Even though we were warned about having a back up plan for any emergency. Noone listens it drives us older students bananas!

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Our instructors have a rule that if you leave during lecture, you aren't allowed to come back in until the next break. Also, if you are on the phone, break or not, you have to take it in the lounge. They won't let you stand in the hallway and take the call. And I LOVE that rule!

Today I thought I was gonna wet myself in Fundamentals but I didn't dare leave the room until break.

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i am at the last round of finals, thank the good lord for that, so now i wont have to deal with the cell phones anymore (i leave mine in my car till school is out for the day), now its clinicals for 3 months and graduation!! I am so excited.

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Specializes in geriatrics.

So far I have not seen any of this going on in any of my classes this semester. But while taking A&P we had a couple one female one male. it got so bad especially while going over our test that our instructor limited us to 2 questions during this time. The male student was always trying to ask why his answer was wrong for all of the questions that he missed and it felt like he missed at least 25 out of the 100 on every test. This is how our instructor dealt with this and if he was lecturing and a lot of crazy off topic questions or stories were being told he would politely cut the student off and say we need to move on because regardless if I get through this or not you are going to be responsible for the information in this chapter so that sort of cut that out to. Don't get me wrong there were still these two who would try to get around this but he handled it without trying to be I guess hateful. Questions that pertained to the lectures were gladly answered and if the student still did not understand the instructor would tell them to come by his office after class and he would work with them until they understood the information. The female student even went as far as asking the instructor in class to talk to his wife who was the Director of Nursing at a local nursing facility to try and get her a job. I could not believe it and neither could the rest of the class but some students will go as far as the instructor will let them. Hopefully there is not one of these or even two of these students in my class this semester. By the way neither one of the question asking, class interrupters made into the program so far. Sorry this post is so long.

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Specializes in Ltc, Hospice, Spinal Cord.

Why only target the incessant question askers? Let's not forget to mention the attention getters who think they are the center of the universe, class prolongers that routinely digress from the topic because they have no where better to go, know it alls that think they should be teaching class, cheaters that have no integrity what-so-ever, and people who seem to get away with never coming to class while I bust my hump showing up every day. And my personal favorite is the neurotics whose lives revolve around school and who obsess about every point on every stinking test! All I can say is I'm going to find out where all these annoying people work and avoid them like the plague!!!

Ooooo... I almost forgot the leg shakers who but their feet on your chair or leg against your table and shake like they aspire to be living jackhammers! And here's to the pen clickers, and the gum chewers (open mouth of course), and the sleepers too... can't forget them.

Just a fun tidbit... it helps if you name these people to take the edge off. One fellow student in particular regularly displays a fun culmination of several of the above eccentricities. My friend decided we should start referring to him as Turd Ferguson! Makes me smile every time he does something annoying... which is VERY fortunate for him!

Thanks for the vent opportunity :no:

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Why only target the incessant question askers? Let's not forget to mention the attention getters who think they are the center of the universe, class prolongers that routinely digress from the topic because they have no where better to go, know it alls that think they should be teaching class, cheaters that have no integrity what-so-ever, and people who seem to get away with never coming to class while I bust my hump showing up every day. And my personal favorite is the neurotics whose lives revolve around school and who obsess about every point on every stinking test! All I can say is I'm going to find out where all these annoying people work and avoid them like the plague!!!

Ooooo... I almost forgot the leg shakers who but their feet on your chair or leg against your table and shake like they aspire to be living jackhammers! And here's to the pen clickers, and the gum chewers (open mouth of course), and the sleepers too... can't forget them.

Just a fun tidbit... it helps if you name these people to take the edge off. One fellow student in particular regularly displays a fun culmination of several of the above eccentricities. My friend decided we should start referring to him as Turd Ferguson! Makes me smile every time he does something annoying... which is VERY fortunate for him!

Thanks for the vent opportunity :no:

I'm sorry but this post cracked my sh!t up! :chuckle

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