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Without fail the class would end a few minutes early. As soon as I started making the sounds it was like dominoes. Ten minutes left in the lecture but everyone has all their stuff put away and are putting their coats on. I think of this often. May this knowledge set you free a few minutes early.

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[–] [email protected] 95 points 3 months ago (4 children)

It's college. You're literally paying to be there so you're short changing yourself and your classmates.

If want to leave early, get the fuck up and go. You're an adult. Act like it.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 3 months ago (1 children)

College adjunct instructor checking in:

Your teacher is human. They are there because they want to help you get the information that you need to be a successful person as an individual and in society. They see the class packing up early and it really stings because they care about you and their subject’s impact on the world.

If you don’t want to be an educated member of a democracy, just save yourself the student loan bills and don’t come in the first place.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Joke's on you, the college was giving me a full ride 😎

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

So is OP’s mom, doesn’t mean you can’t still leave early if you want

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

The only one finishing too fast here is OP

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago

That's what OP was doing tho

[–] [email protected] -3 points 3 months ago

I mean yeah but it's awkward as shit and might make your professor hate you, and no good can come out of that.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

As a former teacher, fuck you asshole

as a former student, actually, fuck you too

it makes sense that you so smugly declare this knowledge, "people can hear me". wow. and of course "being rude is contagious". well right back at you, prick.

no I'm not joking. you brag about being an asshole, I'm going to treat you like an asshole

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 months ago (1 children)

What a waste of time and money, and holy unbelievably disrespectful. If it’s not undergrads just playing on their phone or computer the whole time they do this. Why even go to college?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You were paying for that time that you wasted.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 months ago (1 children)

This reminds me of high school and the teachers yelling at people who tried to do this. Most of them wouldn't let us put our stuff away until the bell and then the next teacher expected us to be there at the bell, amazing.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

In the UK we had to be told explicitly not to move before or after the bell rang, until the teacher said we were allowed to (which usually wasn't long after to be fair). Wed all been conditioned by American movies were they just get up immediately to leave, lol

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Bro please 😭 This is Redditor behavior

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

This is common behavior, people just have underdeveloped brains under 25 and are clueless. the younger the folks the more likely but op claims they already should be past that so looks like they have some developmental delays

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

Hahah i forgot that i did that too, more so because I was fascinated how well it worked. Kinda like a social experiment

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Honestly who cares about few minutes when you can learn something more, I am there to listen. If I want to chat or play games on my phone like my mates I just won't show up at all cause what's the point. What's the point of going to the lecture and playing on your phone?

Similarly, few minutes at the end won't save me and If I really need to go I can just go to exit at any time, quietly.

I spend big money for these minutes so I am gonna make use of all of them. I paid for it

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

During high school I'd always hang around the class room after class to chat with the teachers; mostly because a large part of the other students were bullying me at the time and I wanted to avoid them/take my mind off of things.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

All of my classes were pretty great, I wanted to stay and learn at most of them. University was interesting, I miss having access to the professors and the ability to talk to people in very different disciplines.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

LOL. I've seen that happen many times. One of my classmates also did that intentionally every now and then.

It was a different country, different system etc. so USA specific things didn't apply. I totally get it why everyone here seems to be so outraged about it, but in this case, it was mostly harmless fun.

Here's how it usually went. You make some close up noises, and watch how other students start packing even though we're nowhere near done yet. The point is that you only make the noises, but don't actually put your books in your backpack. People react to that noise, and assume that everyone else is also packing up already. You have effectively triggered an avalanche. Some people eventually started heading for the door, and that's when the teacher realized what was happening, and had to tell everyone to calm down and take a seat.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

see now THAT'S funny! op just a jerk

[–] [email protected] -4 points 3 months ago

It's literally the same thing. Wtf are you talking about?