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ScarlettP · Unread postby **ScarlettP** » 16 Jan 2006, 11:34

Assissin, I did that once. Got up, put the coffee on, took a shower, went to yell at my husband for not getting up... He was laughing at me. It was just before Midnight.

Gaidal Cain · Unread postby **Gaidal Cain** » 16 Jan 2006, 11:58

a55a55in wrote: Waking up fresh isn't a problem to me, once I surprise myself with cold shower I'll be wide awake.

Well, that usually helps for me as well... until I hit a class where we aren't supposed to take notes, and the subject isn't very interesting. Then I spend evrything but the first ten minutes after the break half asleep, occasionally waking up until I realize it still isn't interesting enough to listen to. At least I have yet to fall asleep and awake to find the lecturer standing with his face 20 cms from mine, which happened to a friend of mine. Another time, the same teacher stod infront of a guy that was asleep, and said something like "then we have sine... oh sorry, sine".

DaemianLucifer · Unread postby **DaemianLucifer** » 16 Jan 2006, 12:08

Well they never caught me sleeping,even though I was in the front row.It seems that teachers are so obsesed with watching the back rows that they dont notice what happenes in front of their noses.

ScarlettP · Unread postby **ScarlettP** » 16 Jan 2006, 12:47

That's why I always sat on the front row. As close to the center as possible. The teachers always assumed that I was a dreadful brown nosing 'go getter'. Truth of the matter was, that I knew they would never suspect me if anything went wrong... and I'm not going to admit how many times I engineered things to 'just happen.'

[T]osHiro · Unread postby **[T]osHiro** » 16 Jan 2006, 14:21

There no way we could go asleep in the front row. Our teacher was so attentive with the front row, who are students that want knowledge. They could care about the back, even if they fall asleep before they came in.

Gaidal Cain · Unread postby **Gaidal Cain** » 16 Jan 2006, 14:35

Well, that guy did pay attention to the back rows as well- one tiome, when a couple where sitting there kissing, he sent up a big "Smooch!... Only I saw"

(the guy is russian, and speaks with an outrageous accent, so it was really very funny).

Kristo · Unread postby **Kristo** » 16 Jan 2006, 14:42

That's when you need to take a class in an auditorium that seats 1600. It's all about sitting in the balcony.

(My Economics 101 class at college had approximately 800 students. There was only one building on campus besides the football and basketball stadiums that would hold that many people.)

Gaidal Cain · Unread postby **Gaidal Cain** » 16 Jan 2006, 14:56

Biggest classes here at my Uni are of about 150. That's the first-years, during first week. Now I'm at third year, and while there "should" be about 100 people that takes the same courses as I, there are usually at most 50 people that shows up for a "normal" lecture.

Mutare Drake · Unread postby **Mutare Drake** » 16 Jan 2006, 15:02

Teachers I have currently don't seem to pay much attention to anyone, and even if they notice something like kids sleeping, they don't seem to care. There's been three incidents I can think of in one class where kids fell asleep, and no one got in trouble. The teacher didn't wake them up or anything (well, except one kid we woke up...the dismissal bell rang, so we figured he didn't want to be left in the school over the weekend).

Last year my friends and I perfected resting our chins on our hands and keepin our eyes open and towards the teacher, while falling asleep. Physics does that to you, I guess. I've forgotten it though, I need to practice again for calculus...

Gaidal Cain · Unread postby **Gaidal Cain** » 16 Jan 2006, 15:05

Mutare Drake wrote: Last year my friends and I perfected resting our chins on our hands and keepin our eyes open and towards the teacher, while falling asleep. Physics does that to you, I guess. I've forgotten it though, I need to practice again for calculus...

Oh... I guess I better not mention exactly what it is that I study

Corribus · Unread postby **Corribus** » 16 Jan 2006, 15:12

When I teach classes I usually don't care if the students fall asleep or even show up (this is usually only a problem with freshmen - the upperclassmen know better). It's their problem and they'll regret it come exam time.

Corribus

Kalah · Unread postby **Kalah** » 16 Jan 2006, 16:05

Yeah, well... when the students have studied ones course for a year and still not know anything, one could start to wonder if there's something wrong with the lecture. Or the lecturer...

But hey, I've fallen asleep in class before; and it was mostly due to the fact that I stayed up all night playing CM2

Gaidal Cain · Unread postby **Gaidal Cain** » 16 Jan 2006, 16:21

Naah. It must be the students' fault. And ealier schools that haven't taugth them the things they used to...

At least, that's what one usually hears- even when there was a course where something like 93% flunked

Kalah · Unread postby **Kalah** » 16 Jan 2006, 18:00

In basic Chemistry up here at my Uni, they have always had a problem getting students passign grades. Now, when 100 students take the course every year, and year after year, about 60% fail the course, I think it's time to change the course.

The thing is that most of the students taking the course aren't really interested in Chemistry; they study Biology etc. So what they should do is adapt the curriculum to fit what type of students they have...

Corribus · Unread postby **Corribus** » 16 Jan 2006, 18:08

Kalah wrote:The thing is that most of the students taking the course aren't really interested in Chemistry; they study Biology etc. So what they should do is adapt the curriculum to fit what type of students they have...

Adaptation implies more work for professors, which immediately means it will never happen.

Corribus

Kalah · Unread postby **Kalah** » 16 Jan 2006, 18:46

Not just the teachers, but the people planning the courses... There are many councellors behind it all, but here, it appears they haven't got a clue what to do.

DaemianLucifer · Unread postby **DaemianLucifer** » 16 Jan 2006, 18:57

Well,at least you dont have so many of the useless clases completely unrelated to your major studdies.

Kalah · Unread postby **Kalah** » 16 Jan 2006, 19:03

Sure we do...

gravyluvr · Unread postby **gravyluvr** » 16 Jan 2006, 19:51

Corribus wrote:
charleswatkins wrote: Here in Texas we used to have LBJ's birthday, which I guess got swallowed up long distance by the President's Day. And when I was a kid, we got both Robert E Lee and Jefferson Davis' birthday. Of course these later got merged into Confederate Heroes Day. When somebody complained that this might still be offensive to black people, it got merged with Juneteenth with Confederate Heroes and Juneteenth celebrated on alternate years.
You gotta love the South.

That's nothing. In Virginia, we used to get Lee/Jackson/King day to celebrate the birthdays of Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, and Martin Luther King Jr. Same day to celebrate the two finest Virginian military leaders in the Confederate army (the side that supported slavery) and the finest leader for civil rights and equality of blacks in modern America. Hmm... Not too politically incorrect is that?

DaemianLucifer · Unread postby **DaemianLucifer** » 16 Jan 2006, 20:12

Kalah wrote:Sure we do...

Like what?Organization and sociology in a chemistry school?Or history(regular history)in mathematics school?

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