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Im usually pretty quiet..but if someone talks to me I'm deffinately social with them and I have no problem striking a convo. I wouldnt say that I get to know them...but Im friendly.
And dont feel like a loser for wanting to listen to the teacher! Thats what your there for!
good luck with the first day!
I may talk before class takes up or after class, but not during. I always sit right up front and take good notes or follow in the book and highlight. I'm paying to listen to the teacher, not to socialize with the other students. I'm in college, not grade school. Somehow, even with my dorkish behavior I always end up hanging between classes with the best looking, coolest people in my classes.
"I hear you calling and it's needles and pins. I wanna hurt you just to hear you screaming my name...You're poision. but I don't wanna break these chains.... I wanna love you but I'd better not touch."
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It depends with me. I've become friends with some classmates over the semester, and other times I don't really talk to anyone the whole time. If people are friendly with me then I'll be friendly back. I'm here to learn though, and socialising to me is for outside the classroom.




nope. generally it would happen by accident. I might speak to one or two other students, but that is it. i just never felt a need to.
I do, or at least I used to more often when I first started my program. Now, I have friends within it and tend to know a handful of people in each of my classes so I just socialize with them. I'm totally open to making new friends in classes though. This could be greatly influenced by the obscene amount of group projects I have to do in my program though, so we're sort of forced to socialize with classmates.
Well, it's been over 20 year since I was in college but....HELL YEAH. College is a place to expand your mind and learn new things, and communicating with classmates is a HUGE part of that.
Besides, it can be considered training for the real world, where you HAVE to speak with people that you work with.



I was at a conservatory and, due to the collaborative nature of my major, was forced to converse with my peers. I found them so alarmingly petty and empty that I left the major and the school and now I'm quite happy being an anti-social history buff, working towards a poli-sci degree.
Goddamned a**holes, really. They really were. *pout*





Some I did and some I didn't. Some I keep in touch with but most I've forgotten. I will say though regarding college only (meaning not grad school) I always say I became out of class friends my first and last semester of college. Meaning that my first semester I met people I hung out with outside of class and my last semester I had a group of classmates where we hung out and went to plays (it was a drama class).
Graduate school was slightly different because I went through classes with the same core group. Because of that I got to know people.





I would pick out some serious students in the beginning of each semester and exchange phone numbers and e-mails so if I missed a class I could get notes.
That was about it.
I didn't try to make friends in class - that's what extra-curricular's and roommates are for.




I was social to a degree... The few minutes before class, perhaps some small talk if we had a minute waiting on something, stuff like that. When we got done though, I was gone. Aside from a few aquaintances that I had multiple classes with, I rarely knew anything about my classmates. The people I socialized with came from other sources.



I was so anti-social in class! I get so annoyed at people who talk when a lecturer is talking, especially a guest lecturer. It's so rude. I was freshly 18 when I started at uni, but I was still disgusted by the others (sometimes older) who assumed that, just because they thought that day's information was useless or boring, not all of us did. Not to mention the insult to the lecturer. If it's such a bore, don't attend!
I lived on campus though, with hundreds of American and latino etc international students though, so I socialised like crazy with them. My friends from there were rarely in my classes though, as they tended to study business or English. We'd go to uni bar most weeks, but our student village took up about 80% of that. The local Aussies often lived at home and were either working or would go out to more upmarket bars in Sydney.
As for the issue of classmates with a bad case of le dumb, it doesn't really matter how high up you get. Dumb people make it to the most unexpected places. I studied Media and Advanced French - an extremely exclusive course - at Australia's most prestigious uni. (Operative word being 'prestigious,' not 'the best.') I also started a Media/Law double at a slightly less prestigious uni in Sydney. But law is extremely hard to get into at most institutions.
Coming from a country public school, I expected to be done with the rednecks and aspiring farmers at uni. But I honestly believe I encountered a similar ratio of -facepalm-inducingly unintelligent people in those courses. Sure, most came from private schools, had private tuition, connections to top law firms, and the support of professional or academic parents. They were usually more literate than the average person from my inbred hometown, but that's about it. A few girls in my class made my humble, high school dropout-turned-farmer parents look like Mensa members.
I had some people like you in my class yesterday. I turned around and said "excuse me, but I want to hear this" in a very loud voice. Dude turned red but shut the hell up.I don't mind talking before or after lecture, but I pay good money to hear what my professors are saying, drowning them out is just plain rude.
"I hear you calling and it's needles and pins. I wanna hurt you just to hear you screaming my name...You're poision. but I don't wanna break these chains.... I wanna love you but I'd better not touch."


it depends on the class and professors. ive had a few small classes in my major where i might talk school-related stuff before class or when the professor gave us a 5 minute break...but b/c im doing an evening program at my school, theres not a lot of outside interaction between the eveneing students compared to the day students. Most are older with kids and work full time during the day so it is hard to make a friend or even a study buddy. but tuition is a lot cheaper for evening students than the day and its the same degree
i dont talk to some students however that sit there and loudly complain about the class as soon as the teacher walks out. you never know if that professor is listening, and when some people are complaining that "the teacher kept us here the entire class time, i cant believe she would do that...im busy and she needs to recognize who she is dealing with" i want to slap them and i dont even try to talk to them
sometimes i end up talking more to the professor before class starts than anyone else. they can be more sociable
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