Tuesday September 23, 2003

School Lessons

I had my first class last night, and I just thought I’d share some classroom tips, which are apparently not obvious to the older folks in continuing education:

  1. If you weigh 400 lbs, don’t wear a giant neon green dress.


  2. If you want to seem involved in the lecture by asking questions, make sure you don’t ask something that the teacher JUST answered or can be found on the handouts.


  3. Don’t find ways to announce your medical problems to the entire class on the first day. Ex. “Is that the way the picture is supposed to look, or just the projection? I can’t tell because of the mini stroke I had, that affected one of my eyes.” No one gives a damn about you, and if I find out later you’re using this to justify crappy work, I’m gonna be pissed.


  4. If the computer experiences technical difficulties, don’t start drooling and shouting out solutions in an attempt to assert your geekiness. Hovering over the teacher’s shoulder as they are trying to conduct their presentation isn’t endearing. No one likes an ass kisser.


  5. Pay attention. If you are quiet and attentive and listen for more than 5 seconds, you might learn a bunch of new things. You might also find that all of your questions have already been answered. Unless of course, you just like to hear yourself talk…

You’d think that these people would be better than your run-of-the-mill college students, because they are older working professionals. Apparently they could learn a thing or two from us young’ns. I should probably point out though, that all but tip #4 were violated by the same obnoxious woman—most of the students were attentive and tried to ask intelligent questions. Posted at 1:00 PM | Track comments to this entry vis RSS

8 Comments

ARG! There is always one in every crowd! I hope she does not ruin the class for you :(

*ok and I’m still laughing at “If you weigh 400 lbs, don’t wear a giant neon green dress.” *

1 | Posted by: Colleen on September 24, 2003 @ 5:36 AM

LOL don’t you agree with me about that dress thing though? I mean, it was seriously a huge, radioactive green tent—it was obscenely neon and obscenely large! But you know, she probably wanted the attention it brings, cuz she kept making all those comments and questions.

2 | Posted by: Jennifer on September 24, 2003 @ 1:38 PM

*wipes tears of laughter away* Radioactive green tent..LOL
I totally agree with you, she probably did want the attention it brings!
*wipes more tears of laughter away*

3 | Posted by: Colleen on September 24, 2003 @ 1:52 PM

laugh, there’s always someone like that and I love the description of the dress! I hope you enjoy your class lots and tell us more stories about the lady in the radioactive green tent! ;Þ

4 | Posted by: Ivette01 on September 25, 2003 @ 7:38 AM

…as one of the ‘older’ students at junior college (a long time ago) i agree! With me it was the rich b**** whose husband owned a local car dealership. She wore a huge neon sign that said, ‘i’m better than all of you so i don’t have to have a brain!’ LOL at the giant dress however. I’ll be back! ;-)

5 | Posted by: granni39 on September 26, 2003 @ 9:26 AM

It’s always one bad apple in the class that just has to make his/her presence known… over and over again.

It’s kinda interesting to see how the professor deals with that person because most professors are adamantly open, downright demanding of questions “no matter how stupid they are”. Uh huh. Right. Just wait for that one student…

6 | Posted by: alan on September 27, 2003 @ 12:53 PM

There’s more than one bad apple, but you can’t really count the instructor as one either, so we’ll just go along with the ban on 400-ton neon whales with ADD.

Just kidding. the other bad apple is me. No one knows this yet, but they’ll find out soon. Muahahaha.

7 | Posted by: Keir on October 04, 2003 @ 1:11 PM

…and today was even worse!

8 | Posted by: keir on October 04, 2003 @ 3:45 PM
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