People who are infatuated with their own voice.

[JaggedEdge]

:angry3:
I'm thinking of making a t-shirt for school...

"If you don't have something quasi-intelligent to say, shut the fuck up."

Every semester, in nearly every class, (literature classes in particular) there is at least one student who feels the need to interrupt the professor at least once every class in order to share some semi-relevant personal story.

Honestly, what is wrong with keeping your mouth closed until you have something worth while to say? Today for example, my American Lit professor was asking one of the students to spy on a resume workshop/job recruiting event being held on campus. He said he didn't want to waste the recruiters' time by asking them questions considering already has one, but is very curious as to how the employer's view English majors.

He is starting a web site in order to give English Majors an idea of what jobs will be available to them, as well as ideas for entry level jobs which will allow fast promotions based on our skills.

He than told us a success story of one of his friends who started at a company answering phones...

And of course one girl, the same one who constantly annoys me with stupid comments that disrupt class, cut's him off and informs everyone...

"Yeah, I know exactly what you mean, I'm in sales now and I work 4-5 hours a week and make $200-400 a week. And thats when I'm not trying. Everyone assumes I will just be a teacher, so the feel sorry for me and by more things."

WTF? Yes that is an exact quote, I felt the need to write it down right after she said it. Honestly, no one cares about you except your friends. The sooner you learn that, the better off we will all be. Not to mention I couldn't help but wonder, if your making 200-$400 for 4-5 hours of work, why not work 15 hours and make well over a $1,000. Seems logical... Still very little work for a big payoff.

End rant. :angry3:

[birdgirl73]

Those people show up in professional schools, too. I remember them from my English lit days as a undergrad, people who felt they had to display their own thorough understanding of something we read by hearing themselves talk. I was astonished to see those same clowns in grad, post-grad and now medical school.

This year in my pharmacology class, there's a student on the second row who has a pharmacology degree, worked for three years as a pharmacist, and is now in med school. When points that he feels need emphasizing come up, he frequently turns in his seat and begins lecturing the class, which is immense. We've begun complaining, and his study group is about to oust him for being such a buffoon. But the people who really need to step in are the professors and lecturers he usurps. He seems to do it mostly on days when we have non-native-English-speaking profs or lecturers, and he relies on the element of surprise, too. If all else fails, we're going to get a student group up to go talk with him, tell him how he's coming off and assure him we didn't pay $15K to hear him talk this semester. Or we're going to bust him out to the dean, who's our main professor. The dean could take care of him in a heartbeat. He has a Nobel prize in pharmacology/G-protein research, but, sadly, he's mostly our professor in name only. The lesser beings do the real teaching work.

Anyway, I hear you, Jagged. And I feel your pain.

[Purple Banana]

UGH I can't stand these people. They're usually the same ones who ask a question that was just answered, like, 20 seconds before. And then they wait till the end of class when everyone wants to leave to ask an endless string of even MORE idiotic questions. JUST ASK THE PROFESSOR AFTER CLASS, OR IN AN EMAIL. Ugh.

[angry nomad]

If you make $50 to $100 an hour, then why the fuck are you in college? It's funny how some people take every opportunity to make a jackass out of themselves...

[birdgirl73]

Are you asking about pharmacists in particular, Nomad? I'm guessing in this case this guy decided he wanted the prescription-writing power to be a physician instead of just working to fill their orders for them. I don't think it was a money-driven decision so much as probably a power-driven one, at least judging from his need to be the class professor. . . .

[GrinS]

birdgirl, i don't know if that was ironic or not, but he obviously wasn't talking to you cause u didn't list any $'s on a salary, thus no question should be asked about a wage he makes, he was obviously talking to the "OP".

Not trying to flame or any disrespect, but i think this hit the nail on the head...

[birdgirl73]

That's OK! No flame inferred, definitely. I wasn't sure because Nomad didn't point back to the quote he was referring to, but then after you posted I reviewed the end of Jagged Edge's post again and saw that Nomad must clearly have been referring to that instead of the pharmacist prof.

Takes me a while to figure these things out when I don't see a quote in the reply . . .

[GrinS]

lighten up, more like lighting up:rasta:

[JaggedEdge]

I'm glad, I'm not the only one who gets extremely annoyed with these people. I agree with you BG, the professors need to tell these people to keep their mouths closed. I've also encountered the people who love trying to start debates 3 mins before class is supposed to end. If I'm interested in the topic being brought up, I'm annoyed because we can only discuss it for 3 mins. More than likely though, I get annoyed because I'm ready to leave.