Class Personalities

6/03/2007

The bussinessman - this student shows up late to most classes, he usually comes in wearing a rather classy suit. He’s of the really cool person variety, he probably knows his stuff, I don’t know. He usually leaves early and doesn’t takes notes when he’s there.

The sportsmen - there is definitely a distinct row of students in this class who comes from a variety of sports teams here. They always have their ballcaps on, or at least some piece of team paraphanelia. I barely ever see them to be quite honest, in fact, today at our midterm was definitely a first for many of them.

The consistents - there are some students in my class who I now know by face. I can bet money and be sure that they will be there every single class, everytime.  They include a large variety of students, a mix of male and female, and an age range that starts somewhere in the 20’s and ends somewhere in the late 60’s, if I had to visually guess.

The girl who writes *everything* - I don’t really have to add too much, she really does! She starts writing the second our professor opens his mouth, a movie begins, a song starts playing, a discussion occurs and finishes however later she manages to catch up from what was said to what she managed to memorize and summarize in her mind. My notes for the entire class are 5 pages long, I’ve wasted 2 of those on doodles.

The lurkers - as of today have their own category, I thought I knew our class size, until I saw everyone who showed up to write this midterm. I think our class more then quadrupled as a result of this outing. It’s a good thing that when I finished the last answer I thought “I could totally do this course from the books.” One of which the bookstore finally got, and it was another $70 -_-”

The fucking annoying guy - I think it’s a miracle I haven’t given this guy the glare and told him to shut up yet. He asks those hella dumb questions that are just made to start an argument because his perfect opinion wasn’t the same. Today he actually had an outburst on two other guys who were supposedly talking too loud. To be fair I didn’t notice until he came in and they were sitting closer to me. He whispers to himself after disagreeing with the professor, but making all the motions of the words in an extremely exagerated manner with his mouth. He shakes his head openly and mumbles when disagreeing with anything happening at the time. He is so freaking annoying, and he’s there every class -_-”    Oops, almost forgot to mention, after his outburst he proceeded to eat some shelled nuts, which I could hear him breaking and chewing for the next 20 minutes, thanks for that awesome guy.

There are 2 comments in this article:

  1. 7/03/2007Mujibar say:

    I feel your pain. I think we’ve all been in a class with one or more of the aforementioned types of people. I remember reading an article about this a while ago, about the fact that you can classify every student into one of ‘n’ categories. I’ve just spent the last 10 minutes looking for that article but I can’t for the life of me find it, so I’m afraid I’m going to have to end this comment with that.

  2. 7/03/2007Stella say:

    Some people are not as fortunate as you are - smart, confident, well-mannered and with high tolerance to the world’s unfairness. So just try to disregard this annoying person: one day he might be able to re-assess his behaviour and grow up. Rejoice in the fact that you evolved. Some people are proud of you.

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