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I am currently taking pathophysiology and in an associates nursing program, I have a year left.

Last week, in class (which is a computer classroom so there's a computer in front of everyone) during lecture, I was scrolling through the powerpoints and looking up things pertaining to lecture. I also sent an email to a professor. While the class took a 5 minute break, a girl that sits a seat away from me (with no one in between us) rudely snapped at me "Can you NOT click and type through the whole class??!" I replied "I didn't know it wasn't allowed." I was taken aback because I thought I was typing quietly and also, I was doing school stuff, not chatting on FB.

Anyways...flash forward to this week and I am carefully, quietly scrolling thru the powerpoint/clicking. There is a girl next to the girl that doesn't like the clicking and she is also typing/clicking on stuff. I can tell the annoyed girl is getting really irritated by us because she keeps sighing loudly.

She then starts flipping through pages SUPER loudly and then starts slamming her books and notebooks closed and tossing them on her desk loudly. Every time she takes a sip of her energy drink she slams the can down. I texted my friend that sits on the other side of the class if she could hear it and she said she could.

The entire situation was so uncomfortable and it's not okay that she does things like this, regardless of if she's annoyed. I really hope she doesn't do this in other classes. I wanted to get opinions on whether or not I should email the director of the nursing program about this?

Specializes in SRNA.

Type those notes even louder. Petty for petty lmao.

In all seriousness. Continue doing you. She'll get over it.

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Specializes in Pediatric Critical Care.

Lets be real. Its 2017. Business professionals use technology in the workplace, including during meetings. Students also use technology in the classroom, including during lecture. Laptops are more than appropriate in college classrooms. A "professional student" should operate under the same guidelines that a career professional would. Use your technology for work/school purposes during work/school time. Personal use of technology (emails, texts) during this time should be done wisely, sparingly, and discreetly.

As adult college students, you are all responsible for your own behavior and your own learning. This other student needs to figure out what she needs to do if she can't learn effectively while sitting next to you when you are behaving appropriately. YOUR responsibility is to behave appropriately and to use your class time for learning. So, as long as you are doing that, let her worry about herself and you just worry about you. No emailing anybody about it!

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You're 'that guy' nobody wants to be around. I'll take my chances with your classmate.

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Specializes in Pediatrics, Pediatric Float, PICU, NICU.
The girl next to me was texting occasionally too. In fact, everyone texts occasionally during class. Since you are older I'm sure you didn't experience this back then, but that's how it is a lot of the time nowadays. And I have taken classes various places throughout the country and experienced this a lot.

I can imagine your future coworkers are going to LOVE you...

/sarcasm

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You're 'that guy' nobody wants to be around. I'll take my chances with your classmate.

:roflmao:

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I can imagine your future coworkers are going to LOVE you...

/sarcasm

Sorry..but it's true. Welcome to 2017, soon to be 2018. My classes are full of people in their early 20's :)

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Lets be real. Its 2017. Business professionals use technology in the workplace, including during meetings. Students also use technology in the classroom, including during lecture. Laptops are more than appropriate in college classrooms. A "professional student" should operate under the same guidelines that a career professional would. Use your technology for work/school purposes during work/school time. Personal use of technology (emails, texts) during this time should be done wisely, sparingly, and discreetly.

As adult college students, you are all responsible for your own behavior and your own learning. This other student needs to figure out what she needs to do if she can't learn effectively while sitting next to you when you are behaving appropriately. YOUR responsibility is to behave appropriately and to use your class time for learning. So, as long as you are doing that, let her worry about herself and you just worry about you. No emailing anybody about it!

Thank you for the useful and thoughtful comment!

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Type those notes even louder. Petty for petty lmao.

In all seriousness. Continue doing you. She'll get over it.

:saint::roflmao:

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Specializes in Cardiac, COVID-19, Telemetry.
We have assigned seats. I can multi-task ;) And it's hard to pay attention to class when feeling uncomfortable. I try not to use my phone much. Everyone I know occasionally texts during class, not saying it's ok but that's how it is in 2017 I suppose!

I disagree with the texting theory - my program is very strict about your phones being out and they're not even allowed in the building during clinicals. I am allowed to have my phone on silent in my bag during lecture, that is it.

As far as the annoying student goes - you have to learn how to tune her out. I had an extremely annoying student in my clinical group who talked overly loud about everything other than clinical matters and very loudly pronounced on the first day of lecture, "I will do way better than anyone because I have worked at the hospital for two years!" During clinical, she routinely showed up 5 minutes til meeting with her hair in a mess and not pulled up, she was never prepared for discussions, and she was a terror to have to provide any patient care with. During a patient's shower, she would literally stand there and talk about how some dude she knew in high school asked her out last week - or some other boring garb. Needless to say, I had to learn to ignore her, but I also told her to pull her weight when performing patient care or I would ask our clinical instructor to assign me with another classmate - that seemed enough to get her to at least help.

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Talking to the director definitely isn't the best plan. I agree with everyone- try talking to the student first.

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Lol this is grade school stuff!! Tell her to get lost and sit somewhere else and if she doesn't, ignore her and keep doing your thing. Once she sees that you're not phased anymore, she'll quit. Now back in my nursing school day I would have poured the energy drink on her head..but I don't suggest that 😂;) teehee

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Specializes in Cardiac Telemetry, ICU.

The clear solution here is to bring a Blackwidow mechanical keyboard to class. :)

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