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[StoOgE]

Here I am going to write a constitution for all guys in college to read and sign before their freshman year. I am getting tired of people annoying the hell out of me in class. I dont know if this will catch on, but here is stuff you should know and adhere to. Please, feel free to add any of your personal pet peeves.

1) If the room is half empty, dont sit next to someone else unless you know them. Sit in front of them, behind them a few seats away from them and try and strike up a conversation. Nothing pisses me off more than when some guy comes and sits next to me when there is a mostly empty room. You know dude, we wouldnt have to worry about bumping elbows or where I am going to sit my bottle of water if you would GIVE ME SOME DAMN ROOM.

2) If a guy sits next to a girl every day, talks to her before and/or after class and seems to enjoy the company, dont try and get in that. The cockblock is not, in any way, cool. Move on.

3) two people sit next to each other every day (male, female doesnt matter) and you enter the room. There are a handfull of seats available. One of them is next to one of the people who allways sits next to someone. The other person isnt in the room yet. DONT SIT THERE ASSHOLE.

4) Dont ask to borrow someones notes if they clearly have a multi-class binder. They need it and you make them feel like an ass.

5) Sitting a seat apart from a girl is not smooth. She knows what you are there for. Trying to ackwardly make contact out of the side of your vision or glance is also not smooth. It is ackward. Just walk up, sit next to her and talk to her. Really, I promise. You arent fooling anyone in the room expect yourself. And you look less like a douche this way.

6) A study group is not a date. It is a study group. It doesnt mean one of the people in it like you. Women are not like men, they are not looking at any given situation as a potential sexual interaction.. they actually seem to care about their grades for some reason and likely have figured out that you are smart and are using you. They know you think sex is coming, and are using that to their advantage. Note: this does not apply if it is just the two of you. Generally a girl will get all gung ho and shit and try to organize a study group like a fucking army regiment. If one comes up to JUST you, its probably actually on.

7) Walking up to some random person (me) and bitching about the class sucking all the time isnt cool. Man, that 12 page essay sucked? Really? Because I write 12 page essays for fun on the weekend even when they arent assigned. I KNOW THEY SUCK. WE ALL KNOW THEY SUCK. POINTLESS SMALL TALK ISNT COOL.

8) Being that douche in your class that allways talks out, and argues with the professor and has some stupid joke based on the assigned reading isnt going to make you cool. No one likes the person who constantly talks, especially if you are loud and annoying. No one cares about your intresting questions, they just want to take notes on stuff that matters.. i.e. whats actually going to be on the test. No one cares how smart you think you are, trust me, the entire classrooms eyes roll into the back of their head on instinct when your mouth opens. Including that hot chick you think you are impressing.

Feel free to add on.

 

[open_mouth_]

haha alot of these are true. I'd like to think I followed all of those pretty damn well, except maybe for the last one. I was one of the most frequent participators in my school, but not with gibberish, just relevant questions and answers.

Alot of these things are just common courtesy and common sense.

 

[belgurdo]

Most people in college tend to be more worried about studying and passing their classes than worrying about whether they should be sitting in the seat that Guy X was in the previous day and whether people will talk to them

 

[StoOgE]

Most people in college tend to be more worried about studying and passing their classes

I stopped reading there. :lol

No way are most people in college most worried about studying and passing.

 

[belgurdo]

I stopped reading there. :lol

No way are most people in college most worried about studying and passing.

Well, getting drunk and fucking each other, but the rest of my post still stands

 

[Mike Works]

I agree with pretty much all of that except for;

7) Walking up to some random person (me) and bitching about the class sucking all the time isnt cool. Man, that 12 page essay sucked? Really? Because I write 12 page essays for fun on the weekend even when they arent assigned. I KNOW THEY SUCK. WE ALL KNOW THEY SUCK. POINTLESS SMALL TALK ISNT COOL.

POINTLESS SMALL TALK IS FINE! IT'S A BRIDGE FOR A LENGTHIER CONVERSATION! EARN SOME FUCKING SOCIAL COMMON SENSE YOU JACKASS! I HATE YOU YOU FUCKING SUCK! YOU KNOW WHAT ELSE SUCKS? THIS TWELVE PAGE ESSAY I HAVE TO WRITE! YEAH, TA-DOW, HOW DO YOU LIKE THEM APPLES CUNT RAG!

 

[Matlock]

I know I annoy the piss out of everyone when I take my laptop to class and play Nethack in the middle of a lecture that's powerpointed...

But I do it anyway.

 

[yoshifumi]

POINTLESS SMALL TALK IS FINE! IT'S A BRIDGE FOR A LENGTHIER CONVERSATION! EARN SOME FUCKING SOCIAL COMMON SENSE YOU JACKASS! I HATE YOU YOU FUCKING SUCK! YOU KNOW WHAT ELSE SUCKS? THIS TWELVE PAGE ESSAY I HAVE TO WRITE! YEAH, TA-DOW, HOW DO YOU LIKE THEM APPLES CUNT RAG!

DON'T YOU HATE SHITTY THINGS?! I KNOW I HATE SHITTY THINGS!

 

[Tritroid]

My God, you sound like one of those insanely stuck up snobs that sits in the very back and refuses to talk to practically anyone and gives evil glares if you even come within 5 feet of his 'territory'.

What exactly are you supposed to do if it's an enormous lecture hall that's a rammin' 500+ class size and practically ALL of the seats are taken up? Sorry man, but you're GOING to have to sit next to someone. Sure, it may be empty at first, but once it fills up, you're going to be sitting next to someone anyway so who cares?

Seriously, don't go through college with such a large stick rammed up your ass, you make things uncool for everybody else.

[/end rant for people like you that I hate in my classes.]

*Wait, I'm not done.

Multi-class binder? Usually people use 3 ring binders where they can take out notes and hand them to someone without giving them the entire thing. (Or smart people do anyway). And wow, if you DO have a multi-class spiral, and someone asks for the notes, is it really hard to either explain to them why you can't let them borrow them or lie and say you weren't there?

And as far as pointless small talk goes, it's called sparking a conversation using something that both people have in common. It's a way of being polite and trying to make friends in a class if you don't know anybody else. What do you do exactly if someone tries to have a conversation with you and they start out like this? You roll your eyes at them and walk on? Please.

I do agree with you though about people who 'make cute' with the professor and shit by being buddy buddy with them. Oh how I despise those types. Have your little teacher-student conference outside of class please, not during.

 

[tt_deeb]

Bah humbug.

 

[Lathentar]

I know I annoy the piss out of everyone when I take my laptop to class and play Nethack in the middle of a lecture that's powerpointed...

But I do it anyway.

Yeah that would annoy me as well. Nethack is a lot of keyboard action... *click click click*

 

[BigJonsson]

Buffer zones should be mandatory in all classes

Especially when it's a fat chick who decides to sit beside you when there are clearly other seats in the row left that would maintain the buffer zone


Edit - speaking of laptops....I just want to see someone hack the prof's computer during class while it is displaying stuff on screen

That would be quite funny

 

[shuri]

I know I annoy the piss out of everyone when I take my laptop to class and play Nethack in the middle of a lecture that's powerpointed...

But I do it anyway.

NETHACK!? Your packing a monochrome 286? we had people playing wireless ut2003 for gods sake.

 

[Die Squirrel Die]

What I hate are people who are early to class but are determined to sit at the ends of the rows, meaning everyone else has to ackwardly shuffle past them. If you want to sit at the end don't be early, or don't sit down and get yourself comfortable until the rest of the row has filled up.

I took to delibarately knocking their books off the desk whenever I had to squeeze past them.

 

[The Shadow]

5) Sitting a seat apart from a girl is not smooth. She knows what you are there for. Trying to ackwardly make contact out of the side of your vision or glance is also not smooth. It is ackward. Just walk up, sit next to her and talk to her. Really, I promise. You arent fooling anyone in the room expect yourself. And you look less like a douche this way.

This sounds like it directly conflicts with #1. Are you some mega homophobe or something?

Also,

2) If a guy sits next to a girl every day, talks to her before and/or after class and seems to enjoy the company, dont try and get in that. The cockblock is not, in any way, cool. Move on.

Fuck that. If he's just making small talk and not going anywhere with it, she's still fair game. Just because some geek says "Hi" to a girl doesn't mean she's his property. That's just stupid.

 

[Ecrofirt]

Dude, you've got sand in your vagina.

I've got some suggestions for you that might make life a bit easier:

1) Stop being an anti-social dickweed.

2) If you're getting cockblocked by another guy, you should have made your move earlier. If you're the cockblocker, good for you.

3) This Ican agree with.

4) just because it's a multi-subject notebook DOES NOT MEAN that they have all the subjects for that day.

7) Again, you're anti-social.

 

[Manabanana]

I know I annoy the piss out of everyone when I take my laptop to class and play Nethack in the middle of a lecture that's powerpointed...

But I do it anyway.

Yesssss

 

[Dan]

What's wrong with being anti-social? Some people like some privacy and to do things by themselves, why does everyone else have to take offense? Sure, his reaction is pretty strong and just as insulting to social people, but sitll.

 

[Tritroid]

What's wrong with being anti-social? Some people like some privacy and to do things by themselves, why does everyone else have to take offense? Sure, his reaction is pretty strong and just as insulting to social people, but sitll.

Because he's acting like this is common proceedure for anybody in college, when it isn't.

 

[slayn]

I only have two rules when it comes to classroom behavior.

stay the fuck away from me
shut the fuck up

I feel they are all encompassing.

 

[Mike Works]

What's wrong with being anti-social? Some people like some privacy and to do things by themselves, why does everyone else have to take offense? Sure, his reaction is pretty strong and just as insulting to social people, but sitll.

He's not proclaiming that it's wrong to be anti-social. He's hammering home that it's wrong to be social.

 

[Dan]

Umm, I was responding to Ecrofirt and the people who are saying the thread poster is just outright wrong. It makes sense.

 

[Die Squirrel Die]

A couple of years ago in my English Language lectures the class was so big it had to be spread over two lecture theatres with one being videolinked to the other. Anyway we were in the theatre with the lecturer and the projection screen they had the other theatre. They didn't always put the other theatre on the big projector (the lecturer had a little screen to see them anyway). So this couple in the front row of the lecturer-less room starting making out, with all 200-odd people in our room watching them. Giggling and tittering ensued until the lecturer noticed something was up, and then his attention was turned to the screen. Being that he was a decent bloke, he kindly asked them to stop. Oh the hilarity when they realised they'd be broadcast to us. The girl hid behind her hair for the rest of the lecture.

 

[StoOgE]

I think your confused. I dont mind talking to people in class or sitting next to people..

I have a couple of classes that are in lecture halls but are half empty and often times some guy will just sit next to me, and he works out right before class and kinda smells at the same time.. bugs me. He could easily sit a seat away from me. I dont mind people being near me but the guy is right up on me, and then he spreads his legs out so that I dont get any leg room. He really bothers me.

Also, I dont mind talking to people in class.. but there are a couple of people that only will ever make small talk. They bitch about the same things about the class every day. You need to either expand your small talk abilities or move on to something else.

As for the binder thing, that is something that happened to me. This guy asked to borrow my notes, which was a 5 subject spiral.. I told him that I needed it (all my classes are in the damn thing) and even offered to let him Xerox them if he would meet me after my last class ended. He then acted like I was being an ass about it and asked if I could just take them out and give them to him.. ITS A SPIRAL, THEY DONT GO BACK IN. Ugg.

And yes, necking in class isnt cool. I had an astronomy lecture when I was a freshman with alot of slides in it.. so the lights were allways turned down and this couple went at it like rabits. The proff eventually asked them to stop, it was really distracting.

 

[BigJonsson]

I get to class early so I CAN get the end seat on the row

 

[Pochacco]

Who cares. Don't like it, put on your earphones, blast up the volume, and forget about it.
Some people like to socially interact with other people - some don't.

The ones that do generally have more fun though.

 

[RevenantKioku]

Who cares. Don't like it, put on your earphones, blast up the volume, and forget about it.
Some people like to socially interact with other people - some don't.

The ones that do generally have more fun though.

There's times for social interaction, and plenty of them in college. But there are also times were you just need to shut the fuck up.

 

[Jim Bowie]

The one that forever bugs me is the five minutes before the end of classes when EVERYBODY packs up all their shit and sits their looking bored as all hell. That's so unbelievably rude. And such a snobbish gesture towards the Professor! Sort of like, "We don't give a fuck what you're saying, dude. I just want to get out of here and drink." That's the only thing that really bugs me.

 

[sc0la]

When going to lecture fill these seats first
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not these
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When I come to class really late I want to sit in a seat, not on the isle

Spoiler

come to class on time? Whats that?

EDIT:

I get to class early so I CAN get the end seat on the row

DIE! its people like you who make late people like me look like the asshole. I knew it was a conspiracy!

 

[Pimpwerx]

I have a rule to add that got me through college just fine:

9) When the alarm sounds to wake up for class, turn it off and go back to sleep. Wake up a few hours later and watch some tv before contemplating going to one of your afternoon classes. Don't be afraid to take the whole day or week off if the mood's right.

College was a lot of fun, but the classes kinda sucked. PEACE.

 

[dog$]

NETHACK!? Your packing a monochrome 286? we had people playing wireless ut2003 for gods sake.

Nethack > ut2k3

- Don't bum a cigarette off of any person more than three consecutive times without giving one back in return.

 

[vangace]

I get to class early so I CAN get the end seat on the row

shsssh me too, i started doing that my freshman year, i always sit at the back

 

[Ninja Scooter]

im going to enroll in your college, take all the same classes, and start sitting on your lap.

 

[levious]

whatever ever happened to not going to class?

 

[fennec fox]

You are all students of higher education, right? It's "awkward", not "ackward".

 

[levious]

Quotes go after the punctuation.

SORRY FOR BEING A NITPICKING BITCH!!

 

[fennec fox]

Quit shouting!

 

[GG-Duo]

Who cares. Don't like it, put on your earphones, blast up the volume, and forget about it.
Some people like to socially interact with other people - some don't.

The ones that do generally have more fun though.

I dunno, there are unwritten rules in society, though.
Life is very Bart Simpson.

I actually agree with most of StoOge's points

 

[J2 Cool]

Ok, so wait, it annoys you if people sit next to you, but if you sit right next to a girl before you even know her, it wouldn't annoy her? I usually like to seduce a girl. Sit on all 4 sides of her throughout the week. Let her know Im there. Let her get her 4 senses aroused. Let her hear me, see me, feel me, smell me. Then on the 5th day I dive in like a hawk on its prey and sit next to her. Before long she tastes me and I satisfy her 5th sense. But I dunno, maybe that's just me

 

[Vandiger]

What I hate are people who are early to class but are determined to sit at the ends of the rows, meaning everyone else has to ackwardly shuffle past them. If you want to sit at the end don't be early, or don't sit down and get yourself comfortable until the rest of the row has filled up.

I took to delibarately knocking their books off the desk whenever I had to squeeze past them.

Whats wrong with that? First one in, first one out plus more room to put your stuff on the floor. Sitting in the middle is crap cause you have to wait for others who are too slow getting thier shit together

 

[Matlock]

Sit on all 4 sides of her.

All four sides? Are you the world's fattest man?

 

[J2 Cool]

All four sides? Are you the world's fattest man?

different sides for different days, it the art of seducing duuude. gosh, making me all edit and shit.

 

[RaymondCarver]

I find the 4-sides thing hard to believe, but I do know this:

There are so many different types of people in class. Usually, I don't know exactly what to say to most folk because I never know how they're going to react or if they are social or not. I see the people with headphones. That seems to work for them not needing to speak to anyone. I just wish some people were nicer. I've had some people be outright dicks, even lab partners, when trying to work on concepts.

If someone needs something explained and I'm busy, I try to tell them in the nicest way that I can't work on whatever it is right then and that I could review whatever it is with them later. I know I'm not the most important person or smartest person on campus, but I'm at least pleasant to people seeking to learn. I wish some people would extend the same courtesy and offer to collectively study outside of class or in lab, etc. There is not enough collaboration, sometimes, and it would be awesome if more people were willing to study together. Students have a lot to learn from each other.

 

[J2 Cool]

I find the 4-sides thing hard to believe, but I do know this:

I also am having trouble believing I wrote that. wtf.

 

[snaildog]

The one that forever bugs me is the five minutes before the end of classes when EVERYBODY packs up all their shit and sits their looking bored as all hell. That's so unbelievably rude. And such a snobbish gesture towards the Professor! Sort of like, "We don't give a fuck what you're saying, dude. I just want to get out of here and drink." That's the only thing that really bugs me.

YES thank you, I thought I was the only person in the world who hates this (apart from lecturers). We have a ten minute gap between lectures, and a few minutes before that ten minute gap everyone starts packing up like their lives depend on it, so they can run to their next lecture and get there ten minutes early (probably taking the end seats too). I always make it a point to pack up at my own pace after the lecture is actually finished and make the whole row wait for me.

2) If a guy sits next to a girl every day, talks to her before and/or after class and seems to enjoy the company, dont try and get in that. The cockblock is not, in any way, cool. Move on.

Wrong, they're fair game. It's actually hilarious watching some of the 'nerdier' people Chat Up Girls in lectures/tutorials. I was watching some guy do it just the other day. He was making the lamest jokes about not liking the class (why exactly does he take it then?), and agreeing with everything she said. She was in the row in front of him, and I could actually see his leg shaking with the excitement. You know how it goes, there are all these awkward pauses where the guy just looks at her and smiles while he's thinking of something else to say, thinking damn I am onto something here, while she's looking uncomfortable and wondering whether the conversation is over or not. Good stuff.

 

[carbonbased]

JUST BECAUSE YOU ARE IN AN INTRO TO WORLD POLITICS CLASS DOES NOT MEAN YOU NEED TO BLABBER ON FOR 5 MINUTES ABOUT SOME RETARDED 'HOT TOPIC' THAT HAS ABSOLUTELY NO RELEVANCE TO THE SUBJECT AT HAND.

Everyone in that class drives me insane.

I have a rule to add that got me through college just fine:

9) When the alarm sounds to wake up for class, turn it off and go back to sleep. Wake up a few hours later and watch some tv before contemplating going to one of your afternoon classes. Don't be afraid to take the whole day or week off if the mood's right.

College was a lot of fun, but the classes kinda sucked. PEACE.

Damn right.

 

[pollo]

#4 is soo fucking true. Dont be that asshole that asks to borrow notes when its clearly attached to that 3 subject notebook. God I don't know how many times thats happened to me, and I clearly dont wanna give them...but you cant help but feel youre obligated too, and its so hard to say no. Grrr.

 

[Deg]

Well i started recently. In my place they are put online. So thats where we go for notes and stuff if you miss anything. There are message boards and stuff too. I guess blackboard is nice in some ways although its annoying to have to keep track of email, your letters, diary, noticeboard, hand in sheets and then blackboard... I wish everything was in one place.