How do you deal with annoying classmates?

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I have some classmates that are about to drive me INSANE!!!! They act like they are super-students...yet they are failing. What REALLY bothers me the most is how they talk about all the drama in their lives (some MAJOR stuff)....like they think it's making them center of attention...but it's NEGATIVE attention because they are making fools out of themselves by sharing their life history....which in most cases is nothing to be proud of.

How do you deal with folks like this in your class?

I cannot even begin to tell you how much I can relate to this.

I'm a second-degree accelerated student so I've already had the college experience once. While this is great for most people in my class as we all know how to handle the work and school in general, to others it makes them feel like they are priviledged. For example, one girl in our class attended a no-name school in Maryland and feels the need to make sure all of our professors/clinical instructors know that she double-majored there. It literally makes me want to pull my hair out.

Then there's another girl that is so lazy that she asked another girl in our clinical group to do our vitals and one time yelled out of her patient's room to me (while I was busy checking labs for my patient) that she needed me to get her a new set of ECG leads. Then another girl is just so blantantly rude to our professors/clinical instructors that my mouth literally drops open. I've just never met the likes of such people that think they're so entitled to such things. I think it's just the attitude of the area here (I'm not going to say where I go to school cause I don't want to offend anyone or possibly give the identities of these girls away) and being raised elsewhere I guess it's just an acceptable fact here.

I had to have clinical with these girls for the past 2 semesters and I'm happy to say I'm finally free this semester! The best advice I can give you is to ignore them like the other posts have said. And by all means do not let them see that they are getting to you. To them that is what they want and if you show them they are getting to you then they think they've won and it'll just continue.

I've never said anything to them about how rude/ignorant/annoying they've been but I had the last laugh for the past 2 semesters...my name appears on the dean's list and theirs is missing :D

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i don't talk *during* class, but i am one of those people that you hate. as daytonite said,

... signs and symptoms of low self-esteem and probably ineffective coping right in front of you to observe!

it's true. i hate myself, i hate my personality, i hate the fact that i have an undying urge to talk about petty, negative crap.

looking at my mom... yeah, there's where i get this awesome personality trait. i'm okay with it, and i am doing my best to reverse this near-quarter-century old habit.

that said, i'm a straight a student, and do very well in live assessments, and clinical.

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Specializes in Emergency.

Hi,

As lots of posters have said, you just ignore it. If your teachers are good like mine were, they will set these people straight.

Amy

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I have some classmates that are about to drive me INSANE!!!! They act like they are super-students...yet they are failing. What REALLY bothers me the most is how they talk about all the drama in their lives (some MAJOR stuff)....like they think it's making them center of attention...but it's NEGATIVE attention because they are making fools out of themselves by sharing their life history....which in most cases is nothing to be proud of.

How do you deal with folks like this in your class?

Get over it? Selective hearing? I don't know, just some options.

If you can't handle annoying classmates, what happens when you have annoying patients?

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I know how it is to have annoying classmates. My clinical group is about 7 people, all but one of them complains all the time about EVERYTHING. Want to know my solution? I non-chalantely asked them what classes and times they were taking in fall...and picked mine opposite. I don't like negative energy and while i know I cant change them I can change if i have to deal with them.

I did the same thing! It didn't hurt that they wanted "easy" teachers, and I actually want to learn something.

My answer to OP is IGNORE THEM. Don't give them the energy, and breathe. It really helps.

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Try to keep to yourself, its better to be by yourself and focused than have tons of friends and completely lost in class, maybe thats their problem.

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I soooo hear what you're saying!!!

I actually just wrote a thread similar to this and you mentioned some stuff that I missed that i also agree with. I always encounter someone like that in class. I do the best i can to just blow them off and not give them the attention they're so desperate for. Act like they dont' exist. Also, keeep away. I dont like people who try and distract me. Good luck ;)

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i am in the same boat... there is nothing to do, except ignore them... and if necessary go to the teacher then to the director.

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OMG you are totally talking about one of my classmates, I totally feel your pain and it is so annoying because it doesnt matter what the lecture is about this student always has some story to relate and it takes 15 mins to tell it so annoying and takes away lecture time for those of us that want it.

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I just smile and ignore them. If they want to share their drama, I change the subject to something school related or excuse myself and walk away. Dont let yourself get sucked in!!

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Specializes in Psychiatry.

You deal with them the same way you deal with annoying people in general.

What sucks is when you get to the 'real world' of nursing and are surrounded by these types.

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Ignore them. Simple. I don't get involved in drama. Period.

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