Without fail the class would end a few minutes early. As soon as I started making the sounds it was like dominoes. Ten minutes left in the lecture but everyone has all their stuff put away and are putting their coats on. I think of this often. May this knowledge set you free a few minutes early.
yeah right? I have ADHD and I can barely focus in silence, let alone with all the stuff people tend to do during lectures (even eating pickles). More often than not there seems to be whole meetings going on and unless I sit somewhere in the front I will end up talking too or spectating some league of legends gameplay
This is annoying because on the one hand you want to see what people are up to but on the other I pay for the lectures and want to learn so I am constantly maddeningly torn between daily socialization and learning
For me another part is the total lack of empathy these people have for the lecturer and those who are listening. Like come on you are sitting shoulder to shoulder to someone who is trying to listen to someone much further away than you are. Like I would imagine engineering students would have an understanding of the square cube law but I guess not. On top of that this is a room literally designed to amplify the sounds made inside of it.
AND ON TOP OF THAT apparently they don’t even want to be there and delight in intentionally turning the last 10 minutes (about 8% of a 2hr lecture) into an unlearnable environment. Ahhhhhhhh
Well, I myself I am not super versed in the ways of the empaths but… I pay for lecturer to talk there. I fund prof’s salary in part. Then someone is making my money go down the drain because they want to talk some shit about DOTA and I don’t get the full cash worth of what I paid for. That’s annoying. I am not here to listen to how many skins you have in counter strike kid