Wednesday, February 18, 2009

What do you do during lecture

I have been having awful days in my lectures that i hate waking up in the morning for the class(not that they were interesting before). Lately, i have realised that i'm so not a lecture person. I can't sit there eyes fixed at the so-not-handsome lecturer listening to each of his words. The lecturer, being handsome doesn't help much either. When i was at Sydney, i had a class with this Sri Lankan young male lecturer who managed to grab the attention of all the girls with his jaw dropping looks. How do you concentrate when your lecturer is too handsome to be resisited? Ok i should stop with that. My morality is at stake here). Ok that's apart, coming back to the lectures that i'm having now, they are so deadly boring that i can fall asleep in the flick of eyes.

i have one female lecturer who is so excited and passionate about her subject that she keeps on rattling off her lesson hour, stealing our recess time! It's human rights we are talking about. Why did i choose a friday class instead of a thursday class? Aren't friday classes meant to be shorter than any other days?I bet she even lectures in her dream. And whenever there is only few minutes for her to wrap up her lesson, we all fidget, make noises, open-close/zip on-off our pencil cases,pack/unpack our bags in the hope of sending her some signals. Most of the time she gets the signal and then she'll say "ok, i know it's time up..but (OMG, that's where the thunderstorm attacks!!) this is very important. You must listen to what i'm saying or else you'll be in the loosing end. So, i'll continue for another 5 minutes" (Wonder from where she bought her watch, her 5 minutes= 10 mins in any other normal watch). The most difficult part in her lecture for me is pretending as following her lesson. I nod occasionally and sometimes my head 'nods' on it's own when i'm in dreamland.And most of the time i doodle on my note book. I suck when it comes to drawing. So usually i just write "i hate this lesson" in as many creative ways as i can and sometimes i think of my blogging ideas and sometimes it's pure day dreaming.

So as i was googling about it (i google about every single thing) and something caught my eyes and they are here for the readers. I haven't try any of them yet and will be very appreciative if anyone can inform me of its' effectiveness. Ok i'm off to her lecture now. Good day!


1.Bring a water gun. Shoot the professor when his back is turned.
2.Get the other students in your row to do the wave.
3.Contradict everything the professor says. Offer irrefutable scientific proof.
4.When the professor asks a question, raise your hand. If the professor calls on you, point to someone in the next row and say "He knows." Pick a different person each time.
5.Write a love note. Sign it "a secret admirer". Get someone to pass it to the professor.
6.Get up to go to the bathroom five or six times during the class. Change clothes every time
7.Pretend to be asleep until five minutes before the end of class. Then wake up and explain that you missed the lecture, and ask the professor to summarize what he/she talked about.
8.Bring a can of spray paint. Use it to take notes on the classroom wall.
9.Bring a fully-stocked picnic basket to class. Explain that you didn't have time to eat breakfast.
10.Bring a fishing rod. Try to catch things on the professor's desk.
11.Bring a tape player and a tape of a thunderstorm. Keep it hidden. Sometime during the lecture, start the tape, stand up, claim that the professor has angered the gods and leave. Watch to see how many students follow you after the tape starts playing.
12.Switch the professor's lecture notes with your history notes from last term.
13.Raise your hand and ask when the movie is going to start.
13.Bring a light bulb. Hold it over your head whenever you have the answer to a question.
14.Hide a ticking clock under the podium. Call in a bomb threat.
15.Ask questions in a foreign language you know the professor doesn't know. Act angry when he/she doesn't understand you.
16.When the professor comes in, suddenly scream, "NOOOOOO! Not him! Not professor Johnson!! They let him teach again! Noooooooooo!" then run out of them room. See how many people follow you.
Turn your row into a mosh pit.
17.Bring popcorn. Throw it and the professor. Complain that these trained animal shows aren't what they used to be.
18.Bring a tape player and a tape of the school bell. Play it every 15 minutes.
19.When the professor calls on you, mumble inconprehensibly. Answer every question in this fashion. See how long it takes before the professor stops calling on you.

4 comments:

Veni said...

Hi Ramyah,

Am back to comment after a long disappearance.

I can so relate to what you have wrriten, i too have some lecturer who cant just stop talking and bore you till death (hehe...almost).

Anyway, before i forgot, i have read your previous post regarding your desire want to get posted outstation so you can really teach for those who really in need. I was so touch and am so proud of you because most people are still thinking of their conveniences rather then others.

You will definitely be a great teacher : )

Karthik said...

Me the first :)

Karthik said...

2 simpls steps:

Keep shouting in the class, Disturb others till the Professor is tensed. She will ask you to get out.. Stand and again do the disturbance... In her absence of mind, will say I WILL GIVE YOU ATTENDANCE YOU BETTER LEAVE THE CLASS.. This s the chance, say thanks and come

Roam somewhere and come 20 mins late.. Say been to canteen, office room, this staff called and all blah blah!! :)

Karthik said...

Veni :((((((((((((((((((((((( Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!! I'm second ah???