I know we've all seen the threads about those classmates that makes us want to stick a knife in our head, but I'm at wits end at this point. We're only halfway through the program, but the amount of noise, drama, and childishness from some of them is giving me headaches.
There's the girl that has a question every three minutes who also has the family member who has had every known disease. She's also the one who has always says, "Ok, I thought the book said _________ so on the test what's the answer going to be?"
There are the two girls that think they're cool and in some kind of reality show but actually come across as spoiled, overly needy brats like the trash you'd see on Jersey Shore. They're the loud ones that always have to comment in manners such as "WOW, OMG, or WOAH." They actually say the letters O, M, G.
Finally, there's the girl who thinks we're all a close knit group who is seemingly unaware of the cliques and factions going on. She's our designated classleader who doesn't lead. I'm not sure why a school program needs a student leader, but that's an issue I can't change I suppose.
I've been yelled at, cursed out, spit on, and fought with, but the amount of drama that I mentioned above is far worse than anything I ever experienced from drunks and crackheads on the streets. I know people are diverse, but I can't even stand going to class anymore because it all needs to be reigned in.
Wow I am amazed at the number of people who have issues with their classmates. Having been in a number of classes throughout my education, I have come across many people as described in previous post, however, I don't let my frustration with them consume my time and energy or think negativity of any of them; Who am I to judge anyone. I remain focused on my purpose there and do what I have to do in order to accomplish my goal. I refuse to get caught up in foolishness or even let it keep me down. When you let other people's foolishness affect you, you have then lost the battle. There are twenty one people in my class and I actually enjoy them. Everyone brings something different and unique to the classroom. Instead of speaking negativity of those students who are expressive and like to shine in the light, why haven't someone pulled them aside and try and engage them to get an understanding of what is going on. Maybe they do not realize what they are doing and how it is affecting others in the class. How is keeping your distance helping the situation; I never really understood that. Anyway, some of the things that folks have mentioned on this board are also evident in the workplace. So, I take it that those who are frustrated about their classmates behavior will then become frustrated with their colleagues. How would you all then handle the situation; Go to work miserable everyday, run to the supervisor, talk about them to other colleagues, etc. It seems as if those who are sitting in class miserable about the behaviors of others are just as bad as those who are out in the open with it for failing to attempt to take the necessary steps to rectify the situation. I wish you all well and am glad I don't have this problem in my class or think such ways about others. PEACE.
I guess the culminating statement here is how can the people we've been describing be so oblivious to it?
It's unlikely that everyone is irritating except the people in this thread...what's more likely is that everyone is irritating to someone else.....and doesn't realize it.
As nursing students we spend a lot of time together, there are bound to be behaviors in others that are irritating, and there are bound to be behaviors of our own that are irritating to others.
We can choose to stay irritated, or we can get over it.
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we have one of those smarty pant know-it-alls in our class and our instructor actually pulled her aside and told her to zip it during her lectures.
im glad i sit in the corner so i can kinda turn my head to the side as i yawn, groan, roll my eyes lmaooo
there is nothing wrong with asking questions... but sometimes this girl asks literally every couple of minutes. it seems like the instructor can't get in five minutes of lecture without this girl raising her hand. it's acutally very distracting. plus, she always has some antedote to go along with whatever is being discussed or she asks quetions that may or may not relate to a certain something someone she knows has!!! ugh... i get so frustrated sometimes and i know i'm not the only one. i can almost see our instructor gritting her teeth when she spots this student's hand in the air. if you are like this student, ask the very important questions, chances are you are probably not the only one thinking it... all that fluff stuff though, save it for break or send it in an email to the instructor. for me it's kind of like classroom etiquette.
o.m.g.- i swear theres a girl like that in one of my classes, she will not shut it! like maybe if u werent busy trying to be a know it all, you would have heard her explain in 30seconds ago.i love it when she get cut down by the teacher or the teacher doesnt call on her ..haha.. sheesh, give others a chance to speak up.
wow! i would hate to be in these types of situations. stories like these make me appreciate that i'm in an evening nursing program...where all us "older folks" are in. the youngest in our class just turned 21 on monday, and i think the rest intimidate her, so she stays quiet. out of 24 or so students, there are 4 guys, more than in my microbiology class last semester. lol.
we had a handful, turn 21 between this semster & last..and i found out one girl in my class is 18..its like frikken day care in there lol
yeah.. i'm not one to brag, but i initially indulged classmates who would ask what grade i got on a test. of course, then i'd get snotty looks. i eventually just started telling them that i "did well" or "passed." it's none of anybody's business what your grades are anyway - it's rude of them to ask in the first place, to be honest.
good for you for doing well... if they have something mean/snotty to say its just jealousy. maybe they should study harder
that's kind of hard to do isn't it? yep, sure is. thanks for nothing.
hahaha..ur posts always crack me up
btw i think all of us are in the same class and dont realize it haha
We only have mildly irritating people and I would say that only one was annoying due to opening packages of chips and cheetos several times during class. It's the orange powder on the fingers that kinds grosses me out.
That's kind of hard to do isn't it? Yep, sure is. Thanks for nothing.
As an older male entering nursing school, I worked very hard to develop good relationships with as many of my classmates as I could. The annoying ones, I left alone.
The friendships I did make are so fulfilling that there is simply nothing the annoying ones can do to sour my experience. As we count down the final weeks of our program, I find myself looking ahead to the times I won't see some of these people anymore.
My perspective on this is yellowed with age as I recall my previous college friendships from the early nineties. I quite literally never see or talk to those people I was once so close to.
With one exception, this will also be the case with all of my current "nursing school friends." It makes me somewhat sad to consider it. Of course, this concept is quite lost on my younger classmates, who quite accurately merely see this as the morose musings of a silly old man.
I'll gladly tolerate irritating classmates, in order to benefit from amazing lecturers and easy face-to-face access with my professors.
Well, with 18 years on the floor/bedside experience, I don't need to start at the beginning for some hand holding guided lecture of what I do on a daily basis.
I am at a point I get it. I have advisors at my beck and call to guide me also. I am in no way all alone in my learning. Not even close. You really need to know of what you speak negatively about.
I get amazing inservices at work over the exact same topics of Alzheimer's, new drugs, new infection control and I make beds, give baths, hand out meds, start IVs, assess pts, chart, input on care plans, take vitals.....and have for 18 long years.
Excelsior College is a NLN Center for Education Excellence, one of 7 out of thousands. They didn't get that being unhelpful in teaching or making learning unaccessable to their students.
I don't know how some of the people in my class find their way to school every morning much less get anything done during the day.
Case in point, we had fluid and electrolytes last semester. We had it last week. We had it again today. Three different classes. So far we've been tested twice over it. No big to me as I've had it before in life. I love it. Today, a girl says to the teacher "What is this intercellwhatever and inner sissial stuff you keep talking about? Where is this fluid coming from? I've never heard of it before. It doesn't make sense. I thought we had blood not fluid."
i go back to the days of mercury thermometers. we had a couple of exceedingly annoying know-it-all types who had to be endured.
one day when the more annoying of the two had really outdone herself in being rude and condescending, she grabbed the pile of thermometers waiting to be cleaned before being sent to central supply, when the c.i. asked to speak with her. she stuck the thermometers in her pocket and went with the c.i.
when asked to sit, she did, whereupon every single thermometer broke!:uhoh3:
Wow I am amazed at the number of people who have issues with their classmates. Having been in a number of classes throughout my education, I have come across many people as described in previous post, however, I don't let my frustration with them consume my time and energy or think negativity of any of them; Who am I to judge anyone. I remain focused on my purpose there and do what I have to do in order to accomplish my goal. I refuse to get caught up in foolishness or even let it keep me down. When you let other people's foolishness affect you, you have then lost the battle. There are twenty one people in my class and I actually enjoy them. Everyone brings something different and unique to the classroom. Instead of speaking negativity of those students who are expressive and like to shine in the light, why haven't someone pulled them aside and try and engage them to get an understanding of what is going on. Maybe they do not realize what they are doing and how it is affecting others in the class. How is keeping your distance helping the situation; I never really understood that. Anyway, some of the things that folks have mentioned on this board are also evident in the workplace. So, I take it that those who are frustrated about their classmates behavior will then become frustrated with their colleagues. How would you all then handle the situation; Go to work miserable everyday, run to the supervisor, talk about them to other colleagues, etc. It seems as if those who are sitting in class miserable about the behaviors of others are just as bad as those who are out in the open with it for failing to attempt to take the necessary steps to rectify the situation. I wish you all well and am glad I don't have this problem in my class or think such ways about others. PEACE.
Spare us. People have the right to vent; that's what this forum is for.
.. if they have something mean/snotty to say its just jealousy. maybe they should study harder 
Spare us. People have the right to vent; that's what this forum is for.
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Wow I am amazed at the number of people who have issues with their classmates. Having been in a number of classes throughout my education, I have come across many people as described in previous post, however, I don't let my frustration with them consume my time and energy or think negativity of any of them; Who am I to judge anyone. I remain focused on my purpose there and do what I have to do in order to accomplish my goal. I refuse to get caught up in foolishness or even let it keep me down. When you let other people's foolishness affect you, you have then lost the battle. There are twenty one people in my class and I actually enjoy them. Everyone brings something different and unique to the classroom. Instead of speaking negativity of those students who are expressive and like to shine in the light, why haven't someone pulled them aside and try and engage them to get an understanding of what is going on. Maybe they do not realize what they are doing and how it is affecting others in the class. How is keeping your distance helping the situation; I never really understood that. Anyway, some of the things that folks have mentioned on this board are also evident in the workplace. So, I take it that those who are frustrated about their classmates behavior will then become frustrated with their colleagues. How would you all then handle the situation; Go to work miserable everyday, run to the supervisor, talk about them to other colleagues, etc. It seems as if those who are sitting in class miserable about the behaviors of others are just as bad as those who are out in the open with it for failing to attempt to take the necessary steps to rectify the situation. I wish you all well and am glad I don't have this problem in my class or think such ways about others. PEACE.