That ONE student in class

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nitsuj3580

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Originally posted by: desteffy
yes we all hate that student. they are all like

" BUT WAIT! wait, dont you mean .....(long confusing obviously wrong alternative to what the professor is doing) .. "
:: confused professor tries to figure out whta they are talking about ::
::10 minutes pass::
:: Class goes back to normal::

let me add to that:
- Class goes back to normal if you're lucky
- hated student decides to ask follow up question after follow up question
- 5 minutes to go, professor says "well if there aren't anymore questions, you guys can leave early"
- hated student proceeds to ask more questions thus everyone has to stay put.

I had a CS class with a guy that did that almost everyday. It got to the point that the professor started making fun of him so he finally shut up.
 

SVT Cobra

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Originally posted by: waggy
Originally posted by: tRaptor
You know who I'm talking about. There is that one dam student in every class who always managers to ask the stupidest questions, or waste a bunch of time, or argue with the professor. They drive me crazy! I have a really bad on in my stats class, this is her second time taking the class, and she is freakin crazy. Of course it dosent help that she is like 35, but still.

Don't these people drive you crazy!?

What irritated me was the ones that thought they knew more then the professor and everyone else in class. So they would either ask really stupid questions about the topic. OR try there best to show off or show up the Prof.

EXACTLY...i hated those smart asses that would try to show off but just wasted time and made an ass of themselves
 

spidey07

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Originally posted by: andylawcc
Originally posted by: spidey07
too bad as they will be the most sucessful in their careers. They go after things and won't let up until the problem is solved or the information is discovered. Using every available resource.

these are the winners.

highly untrue.

those idoits who doesn't know when to shut up in class will most likely fail in real life.

Not from what I've seen. They are being assertive to get results. That = success.

Frequently the most annoying people in business are the most succesful because they simply will not stop until they get results.
 

andylawcc

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Originally posted by: spidey07
Not from what I've seen. They are being assertive to get results. That = success.

Frequently the most annoying people in business are the most succesful because they simply will not stop until they get results.

okay, I shouldn't correlate "being hated" and "being successful" together.

I know a business man who just won't stop demand a better price from both his vendors and suppliers, my dad and his business pals all hated him, but he is "somewhat" successful; I must give him that.
 

igowerf

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Originally posted by: tRaptor
You know who I'm talking about. There is that one dam student in every class who always manages to ask the stupidest questions, or waste a bunch of time, or argue with the professor. They drive me crazy! I have a really bad one in my stats class, this is her second time taking the class, and she is freakin crazy. Of course it dosent help that she is like 35, but still.

Don't these people drive you crazy!?

When I saw the title for this thread, I immediately knew what this post is about. There's always at least one and if there's an older person in the class, then he or she is the one. I figure older people do this because they feel like the professor is their peer, even when the professor is obviously annoyed.
 

everman

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Had an older Chinese woman in this comparative economics class (kinda like an econ history/world survey). From listening to her, China's great and communism rocks. (then what are you doing here?)
 

Xonoahbin

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Stupid girl in my class named Jessica..
Gets straight A's but she's a *$%@ing moron..
 

Vich

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Originally posted by: tRaptor
You know who I'm talking about. There is that one dam student in every class who always manages to ask the stupidest questions, or waste a bunch of time, or argue with the professor. They drive me crazy! I have a really bad one in my stats class, this is her second time taking the class, and she is freakin crazy. Of course it dosent help that she is like 35, but still.

Don't these people drive you crazy!?


i hear ya, i have the same sh1t in some classes...
 

EyeMWing

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I thought I had one, she was like that for the first few weeks. She was severely into computers for 11ty years back in the day - and then after high school, she moved out and just CRASHED. Never touched one again until 4 weeks ago.

Fortunately, she's starting to remember all the things from BackInTheDay(TM) and realize that they really have not changed. She has no intarweb experience, but she learns FAST. She called my desk a few hours ago. Was having problems with her home internet connection (normally, I'd just refer her to her ISP, but she'd mentioned to me before class that she'd called them and they gave her the runaround saying it was her fault, so I told her to call me and I'd track it down). After about 15 minutes I'd determined without a doubt that Verizon was responsible (her CO is unplugged from the rest of the world, it seems). She was actually very, very, helpful and actually started understanding the things I was asking her to do on her own.

:thumbsup:

If she weren't so f'ing old, she'd be my kind of woman.
 
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You know, I actually read this entire thread out of some morbid curiosity and have reached a conclusion. Alomst no one under age 30 has the slightest idea of what school or learning is, nor could they give a damn.

8*(

That truly makes me about as sorry for this nation as anything ever has...and we've done some truly fvcked up sh!t!

If you all don't want to learn anything, PLEASE get out of school now so the rest of us can.