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Doctor Poetry said:
Stories about that student in your class that thinks he/she knows everything...even tries to correct the professor in lecture
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mmm yes. There's one girl that's so bad in one of my classes the professor finally told her she was "in a cave" and wasn't allowed to speak anymore. Not sure how ethical that was, but I silently cheered.

What I would like to know is how/why people chose to be "that guy"
 
Oxygen206 said:
mmm yes. There's one girl that's so bad in one of my classes the professor finally told her she was "in a cave" and wasn't allowed to speak anymore. Not sure how ethical that was, but I silently cheered.

What I would like to know is how/why people chose to be "that guy"
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Lol...that is pretty intimidating coming from a professor...how did she react
 
There was one in my biology sequence. The second the instructor chose to take a breath, it was always, "I would just like to interject--" and then something quasi-related at best. I think my favorite was when the instructor was explaining viral replication and she piped up about the cholera epidemic at the turn of the century.

And, of course, her 'helpful' clarifications. And butting into your private conversations, insisting that she feels 'reverence' towards the rat she dissected because of its similarity to human beings, and asking for your notes as you're trying to talk to the lab TA because she somehow spilled yogurt all over hers and making you completely miss the TA's answer to your question.

I don't normally like to complain about people, but jeez! I now have my image of 'that guy' set in stone.
 
I had one of those types of students in my art class. She basically badgered the teacher told her that her requirement of going to an art museum is asinine because she's been to every art museum in D.C and that while she'll do it she will not enjoy it at all.

While this situation is not the exact same thing but it's somewhere along the topic.
 
Oxygen206 said:
mmm yes. There's one girl that's so bad in one of my classes the professor finally told her she was "in a cave" and wasn't allowed to speak anymore. Not sure how ethical that was, but I silently cheered.

What I would like to know is how/why people chose to be "that guy"
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he's a professor, ethics are for real doctors. :meanie:

and there's this one guy in my bio lab, constantly boasts about how he's already taken organic chem with lab and blurts out answers before the professor finishes his question. there have been a few times where i've thought about "accidentally" tripping and splashing HCl on his face, because, you know..

accidents happen. :whistle:
 
Janieve said:
There was one in my biology sequence. The second the instructor chose to take a breath, it was always, "I would just like to interject--" and then something quasi-related at best. I think my favorite was when the instructor was explaining viral replication and she piped up about the cholera epidemic at the turn of the century.

And, of course, her 'helpful' clarifications. And butting into your private conversations, insisting that she feels 'reverence' towards the rat she dissected because of its similarity to human beings, and asking for your notes as you're trying to talk to the lab TA because she somehow spilled yogurt all over hers and making you completely miss the TA's answer to your question.

I don't normally like to complain about people, but jeez! I now have my image of 'that guy' set in stone.
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I completely feel where you are coming from...

I Had a chem professor who was explaining how to perform a certain lab experiment...there was one student in the front lab station who had his ipod on...the professor told the student to put away the ipod, and the kid was like, "Come ON!!!!! The ipod helps me think....I understand it..." or something to that effect. Funny thing is, is that I believe the professor called the student a bone head in front of everyone...

I thought kids will grow up by the time they get to the university level...i guess i was wrong
 
At one of the review sessions for my ochem (lecture hall, 500 people), the ochem professor was reviewing stuff and all of a SUDDEN some older lady stands up in the middle of the lecture hall and starts yelling at the professor saying she doesn't know what she's talking about, blah blah and that She's a PhD in chemistry. She keeps yelling to the point that the professor starts CRYING and runs out! THE LADY DOING ALL THE YELLING WAS THE MOM OF ONE OF THE STUDENTS! HE WAS SITTING RIGHT NEXT TO HER WITH HIS HEAD BETWEEN HIS LEGS!!!!! most incredible and holy crap moment EVER!
 
wolverinepwns said:
At one of the review sessions for my ochem (lecture hall, 500 people), the ochem professor was reviewing stuff and all of a SUDDEN some older lady stands up in the middle of the lecture hall and starts yelling at the professor saying she doesn't know what she's talking about, blah blah and that She's a PhD in chemistry. She keeps yelling to the point that the professor starts CRYING and runs out! THE LADY DOING ALL THE YELLING WAS THE MOM OF ONE OF THE STUDENTS! HE WAS SITTING RIGHT NEXT TO HER WITH HIS HEAD BETWEEN HIS LEGS!!!!! most incredible and holy crap moment EVER!
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Yea sure, did a SWAT team show up after to resolve this crisis?
 
Posted this in another thread, but:
In my Gen Chem 1 class, this one kid interrupted the professor during a lecture on the ideal gas law to ask "Does this have anything to do with Quantum Transformation Theory?". The guy was speechless and replied, "Look, kid, that is so far off of what we're doing right now, why don't you waste my time after class with that question?"

The funny thing is, I had lab with him that semester and I overheard him saying to this girl "Yeah, I'm really good at this lab stuff, I just hate those trick questions on the test." Then the next semester, I saw him re-taking the course. 😀
 
Playa said:
Yea sure, did a SWAT team show up after to resolve this crisis?
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Nope the damn women made the professor upset, so the review session got cancelled! although I'm pretty sure non of would have really paid attention after that point.
 
wolverinepwns said:
Nope the damn women made the professor upset, so the review session got cancelled! although I'm pretty sure non of would have really paid attention after that point.
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Yea it is a creative bedtime story i guess. Its unfortunate it doesn't have a happy ending. Let's throw in a unicorn that shows up and graces everyone at the end to make this story more happy and more believable.
 
wolverinepwns said:
Nope the damn women made the professor upset, so the review session got cancelled! although I'm pretty sure non of would have really paid attention after that point.
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Honestly I think professors need to really stand up for themselves. There's no reason that they need to put up with such crap like that. If I were that teacher I would have sat down and smiled and told her to drop my class.
 
There is this guy that takes many of the same classes I do so I encounter him alot. After asking a question about something, he always acts confused and stating that things don't make sense and asks repeatedly for the professor to explain it again. After all that he denys the professor explained anything to the professor and trys to argue about the the professor's teaching style. He often gets auto droped out of classes and has repeated a few because of this. The guy is a lecture stoper and expects the whole thing to stop until he has full understanding of the subject at hand. Drives the rest of us nuts. I tried to help him out by studying with the guy but he just pulls the same crap with me. Funny thing is he either aces the test or fails it like he had never seen the stuff before. Never any in between. Great guy otherwise.:laugh:
 
In my animal learning and behavior class the prof was talking about how simply holding a baby can stimulate growth and development, and mentioned how premature babies in incubators are often denied such interaction even though they're the ones that need it the most. The following ensued:

Guy: "Then why do we even use incubators? We did just fine for thousands of years without them."
Prof: "Yes but for thousands of years premature babies just died. Now many survive at just 23 weeks gestation."
Guy: "Yeah.....but still."

Don't know what point the guy was trying to make. I think he really believed he offered an insight.
 
Doctor Poetry said:
Lol...that is pretty intimidating coming from a professor...how did she react
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She sat back, crossed her arms and had a pity party like a 4 year old.

She's a pre-med student (of course)...the other day I was talking with a friend outside of class about his research that involves poking at hamster eyes. She butts in the middle of the convo and just says, "See, this is why I want to be a doctor and could never be a veterinarian. Animals are so innocent and don't deserve to die. But people, they do bad things all time. Who cares if they get hurt or die?" 😱
 
A guy in my zoology lab bragged about the most asinine bull**** no one could possible care about.

IS THAT RELATED TO (some obscure topic completed unrelated to lecture)
I'M AN ASE CERTIFIED MECHANIC!
I HAVE ELEVEN DEGREES!

A professor actually called him out on the "eleven degrees" thing. The guy rattled the degrees...they were all associates. :laugh: In lab he kept LOUDLY and repeatedly dropping the f-bomb while talking to some white trash girl about politics. This was a small lab too, like 24 students in a 30x30 room. The entire class was collectively like
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. I don't know why the professor didn't kick him out because I overheard him (the professor) talking about how much he hated the guy.
 
In one of my bio classes, "that guy" was this uber-obnoxious girl who would interrupt lecture to ask questions that undermine the saying "there's no such thing as a stupid question." For most of the semester, the professor would just try to ignore her and move on with lecture. But we had a guest lecturer during the last week of class, and he told her she needed to stop asking such useless questions, and if she really didn't understand then maybe she should go back to high school biology. It was awesome.
 
soon some of you will be in medical school, and lemme tell you - the fun doesn't stop at undergrad.

the med school admissions process weeds out some of the douches, but alas, not all.
 
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There's this girl in my microbio class that asks the most detailed questions ever. Usually detailed to a degree that's far beyond the scope of the course, and she's never satisfied with the answer. Like today in lab lecture the TA was talking about some type of differential media or something and she just HAD to know what the exact chemical reaction is that turns it purple when bacteria do fermentation. You could tell the TA was getting kinda annoyed and she eventually just told this girl to look it up on her own time, basically like a polite way of saying "STFU." I can only assume she's premed....sigh.
 
keep them coming. I have another story...this was a WTF moment for everyone that heard what was going on...

We are sitting working on an experiment for physics, and one of the students who, thinks he is the ****, comes over to our bench station, and tells my group that the equation the professor told us to use is wrong...he then goes to say that the formula itself is incorrect...I looked at my friend and we just started laughing; meanwhile, he got into an argument with the professor about the equation/formula being wrong...for reals though, who says those kind of things...


i believe a few weeks later, we were working on a problem, and the professor asked if anyone can solve it...the guy was acting like he knew everything, so the professor asked him to come up to the board...the guy made an ***** out of himself trying to figure out how to solve the problem...a few minutes into his struggle, the professor says some thing like this in a condescending tone, "you cant so solve it so sit down, and be quiet." What a burn...:laugh:
 
Doctor Poetry said:
keep them coming. I have another story...this was a WTF moment for everyone that heard what was going on...

We are sitting working on an experiment for physics, and one of the students who, thinks he is the ****, comes over to our bench station, and tells my group that the equation the professor told us to use is wrong...he then goes to say that the formula itself is incorrect...I looked at my friend and we just started laughing; meanwhile, he got into an argument with the professor about the equation/formula being wrong...for reals though, who says those kind of things...


i believe a few weeks later, we were working on a problem, and the professor asked if anyone can solve it...the guy was acting like he knew everything, so the professor asked him to come up to the board...the guy made an ***** out of himself trying to figure out how to solve the problem...a few minutes into his struggle, the professor says some thing like this in a condescending tone, "you cant so solve it so sit down, and be quiet." What a burn...:laugh:
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:laugh: Professors are so good at making people look dumb. It's great.

But seriously, why would someone who doesn't even have a B.S. challenge a Ph.D?? If the people who do this think they're so smart, why aren't they smart enough to realize that they don't know **** compared to a person who has the highest possible degree in their field?
 
Here's an honest response. I am that student, but I just keep comments to myself or ask professor in private.

Just saying...
 
Global Warming said:
Here's an honest response. I am that student, but I just keep comments to myself or ask professor in private.

Just saying...
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See, that's different. We're talking about the students who make themselves known in class for all the wrong reasons. At least you do it in private.
 
Global Warming said:
Here's an honest response. I am that student, but I just keep comments to myself or ask professor in private.

Just saying...
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So...what I understand from your comment is that you are not that student. 😛
 
Doctor Poetry said:
Stories about that student in your class that thinks he/she knows everything...even tries to correct the professor in lecture
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Dude in anatomy tried convincing the world that pseudostratified epithelium is multi-nucleated:laugh: "see look.... there are clearly more than one nuclei in this cell."

The kicker.... he was (and still is) a TA.:scared:
 
VikingLegacy said:
You know it's funny, I was just thinking about this kind of thing the other day. I posted a big whiny rant in the late night thread about how burnt out I am and how badly I just want to get my degree and go to medical school already.

I was thinking and part of the reason is that I don't have the enthusiasm that those know-it-all showoff kids have. Once, I was that intense about my classes, except unlike the douchebags that populate the stories here I would actually get things right and not be an attention ***** about it. I realize in hindsight that in the first three years of my education, I thought I was hot stuff. I thought I was genuinely special, and that me outcompeting the other undergraduates made me something special.

...Then I got into research, and learned that undergraduates are below janitors on the academic totem pole. I gradually realized how many millions of people there are in the world with bachelor's degrees, and how many of them graduated with 3.8+. I realized in a hurry that for all of my gloating and tail-busting, I wasn't accomplish anything. Not only was I not doing anything that had never been done, I wasn't even doing anything uncommon. Why have such a huge head over something like that? How could I keep on giving a crap about whether or not I got 93, 95 or 97 on midterms?

Maybe I can be a unique snowflake, but I'm not a unique snowflake yet. I'm just one of many, many snowflakes that are all roughly the same. Maybe I'm one of the bigger and more intricate ones, but there are many like me. I understand this now.

My question to the remaining douchetards who think getting a bachelor of b.s. degree is the pinnacle of human accomplishment is, "Why do you work so hard for so little?"
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You it dead on the head. I am finishing my last quarter and I completely feel this way. Yes I have good stats, and all that jazz, but it ain't nothin'. Not yet at least. Well said.
 
ill admit too; sometimes i might be that kid. It's not to belittle other students, or inflate my own ego, but because participation points count. In one of my classes participation is 40%, can you believe? It's a fine line between not talking and talking too much, I guess I try and err into the side of don't be annoying. I'd never correct a teacher, that's just asking for trouble.
 
Overmjnd said:
ill admit too; sometimes i might be that kid. It's not to belittle other students, or inflate my own ego, but because participation points count. In one of my classes participation is 40%, can you believe? It's a fine line between not talking and talking too much, I guess I try and err into the side of don't be annoying. I'd never correct a teacher, that's just asking for trouble.
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Oh jeez. I would love to have that! I have yet to have a science class with graded participation. In my current Chem 3 class if we miss 2 labs or 4 lectures without a fantastic excuse, we fail. That's how our participation is counted. 🙁

Last quarter there was this one Romanian girl who constantly pestered the sweet, old professor about how the equations she gave in lecture (and the book gave) were incorrect. She would insist that she be able to come to the board and would write out the same exact equation the professor wrote (with a slight difference. Like L atm/K mol instead of L atm K-1 mol-1. Or x=equation instead of deltaH=equation).

She continuously complained that if she couldn't do this math then no one could, because she had taken calculus three already. 🙄
 
wristbandMD said:
Oh jeez. I would love to have that! I have yet to have a science class with graded participation. In my current Chem 3 class if we miss 2 labs or 4 lectures without a fantastic excuse, we fail. That's how our participation is counted. 🙁

Last quarter there was this one Romanian girl who constantly pestered the sweet, old professor about how the equations she gave in lecture (and the book gave) were incorrect. She would insist that she be able to come to the board and would write out the same exact equation the professor wrote (with a slight difference. Like L atm/K mol instead of L atm K-1 mol-1. Or x=equation instead of deltaH=equation).

She continuously complained that if she couldn't do this math then no one could, because she had taken calculus three already. 🙄
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Reminds me of another girl in my bio lab. I think she was from Kazakhstan or something. She spoke great English, but she would always ask for me to repeat EXACTLY WHAT THE TA SAID to her after not paying attention to her, and then she'd try to get my data without doing the work herself. Once, I gave in and gave her the data I'd gotten, and she had the gall to say my numbers looked wrong! And she hadn't even done any work!

Best of all, she said she wanted to get into medical school because becoming an MD/Ph.D was the only way she'd get money for the research she wanted to do (not even slightly related to medicine). She also fought with the TA for points in front of the class, argued with the lecture instructor during break about how her thought process was right, so she should get credit even though her answers were completely wrong. What a leech!
 
VikingLegacy said:
I had to deal with somebody like that once in a lab. He didn't do any of the work, know what was going on or even bring his own materials, but he could easily spot you doing something wrong a mile away. He was also very assy about his heritage, when I would try to be nice and conversational and ask him about China he would give me all kinds of attitude. There was no getting along with this guy.

Around halfway through the quarter, I got fed up with him and ended up calling him a ******* loudly in the middle of lab. Everyone stopped and stared. Later that week I caught him out of the corner of my eye, reaching across the table into my bag to grab my calculator without asking. I grabbed his wrist and slammed his forearm down on the corner of the lab table a few times.

I certainly don't get bonus points for tact, but his attitude improved from that point on.
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U mad?
 
One of the girls in my OChem class raises her hand, and with a straight face says:

"How is OChem going to help me when I'm a doctor. If I wanted to be a pharmacist then maybe, but knowing these structures is useless. Just give me a bottle of drugs, I don't care what they look like, and I'll prescribe them."

The professor says:

"I'll have to make sure to never go to you, if you become a doctor you will kill half of your patients".

😀
 
Janieve said:
Reminds me of another girl in my bio lab. I think she was from Kazakhstan or something. She spoke great English, but she would always ask for me to repeat EXACTLY WHAT THE TA SAID to her after not paying attention to her, and then she'd try to get my data without doing the work herself. Once, I gave in and gave her the data I'd gotten, and she had the gall to say my numbers looked wrong! And she hadn't even done any work!

Best of all, she said she wanted to get into medical school because becoming an MD/Ph.D was the only way she'd get money for the research she wanted to do (not even slightly related to medicine). She also fought with the TA for points in front of the class, argued with the lecture instructor during break about how her thought process was right, so she should get credit even though her answers were completely wrong. What a leech!
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Oh my goodness, the girl in my class did the same thing! (Copying my numbers and then telling me she didn't think they were correct). She always thought she was so coy, saying "Oh, can I just double check your answers to make sure YOU got them right?" And would then proceed to copy all of my calculations. (She was an engineering major however, not a pre-med. I don't like engineering majors...)

The reason she wanted to be an engineer was so that she could wear miniskirts when she went to job sights (wanted to be a civil engineer) and make everyone realize that a woman can do whatever a man can do....
 
Haha! (to the above post). I hate those people.

I have two stories for you, both in Ochem.

One of the students was so incredibly obnoxious, constantly interrupting the professor to ask the dumbest questions. He obviously loved the sound of his own voice. It was incredibly frustrating because the professor could never finish his lectures. Finally this happened...

Professor: "Yellow, green, blue" (listing characteristics of compounds)
That guy: " Are those the names of the compounds?"
Professor: "Jeeze, no they are colors now sit down and shut up so I can finish teaching"

I'm pretty sure the entire class applauded the professor.

Second story. Ochem professor is giving back the midterm and telling us the stats. Lowest score was a -1 (yes the professor had questions where you could lose points for messing up). Average was a 44. High score was a 101/100. The girl who got the 101 immediately jumped up, exclaimed "that was me!" and started walking down the aisle to the front like she had just won an award. She is lucky I did not trip her when she walked by.... (I got a 12 on the test......I realize this was mainly jealousy, but still. Hated her)
 
:laugh::laugh::laugh: Those Melvin things are hilarious. I think everyone can relate to the first one.
 
In my biochem lecture last year there was a group of five students that sat in the front row and vied for the prof's attention. Every single morning the prof would begin the lecture with "Good morning class" and, I KID YOU NOT, the group would reply in unison "Good morning professor!!!!"

I almost expected them to stand up and recite the pledge of allegiance after that.
 
I have one of these in almost every class...

Gen chem, I had this guy that would always ask questions he knew the answer to. I'm pretty sure he had taken the class before because he obviously knew his stuff. But it was really getting on everyone's nerves. I'm sure you guys have had the same thing.

Also, in a different class in the sequence, the prof was explaining about how she spilled some kind of acid on her pants and she had to take them off before it ate threw her skin on her legs. This was basically to tell us that being embarrassed has no place in the lab and to just take off our clothes an hop in the shower if we had a serious chemical on us. Anyways, "that guy" proceeds to say "nice, that's sexy." It was really funny, but the prof got all red in the face and looked kind of mad. I was like, "dude, are you trying to get a bad grade."

The last one that stands out, we were talking about something sexual in psych 101. This girl, who always had some way too personal story about whatever subject we were talking about that day, chimed in about her first sexual encounter, along with other sexual exploits. The prof, who was a gay guy and not at all timid about the subject, finally had to stop her and tell her that it was inappropriate. Wow.
 
chman said:
The last one that stands out, we were talking about something sexual in psych 101. This girl, who always had some way too personal story about whatever subject we were talking about that day, chimed in about her first sexual encounter, along with other sexual exploits. The prof, who was a gay guy and not at all timid about the subject, finally had to stop her and tell her that it was inappropriate. Wow.
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You always get the craziest stuff in psych classes. I was taking abnormal psych and one of the students was a very obviously schizophrenic elderly woman. When we were discussing PTSD she went off on a rant about walking into a house and finding your family murdered and blood, blood on the walls, blood everywhere. The entire class was like 😱:scared:. The professor was a clinical psychologist specializing in psychotic criminals, so she took it all in stride.
 
I've journeyed over from pre-vet and would like to share some gems.

There's this one kid that I've had in a few of my classes (physics, chem), who would debate with the professor about everything. Because obviously he's right and the guy with the PhD is wrong. He would ask questions about chapters we haven't covered yet and then ask questions to make himself seem (seem) smart. He has proclaimed himself 'g-d's gift to earth' on countless occasions. Darn, I wish I had written some of this stuff down. I forgot all the funny quotes. 🙁

Also, I had this one girl in my abnormal psych class freshman year. She was like a 5th year senior then (and is still in the school, I wonder what's she's going to do with that stack of degrees or even if she has obtained one yet?). Anyway, so we were talking about phantom pain, and she goes, in all seriousness: "Well, why don't they just amputate their arm?"
 
VikingLegacy said:
I had to deal with somebody like that once in a lab. He didn't do any of the work, know what was going on or even bring his own materials, but he could easily spot you doing something wrong a mile away. He was also very assy about his heritage, when I would try to be nice and conversational and ask him about China he would give me all kinds of attitude. There was no getting along with this guy.

Around halfway through the quarter, I got fed up with him and ended up calling him a ******* loudly in the middle of lab. Everyone stopped and stared. Later that week I caught him out of the corner of my eye, reaching across the table into my bag to grab my calculator without asking. I grabbed his wrist and slammed his forearm down on the corner of the lab table a few times.

I certainly don't get bonus points for tact, but his attitude improved from that point on.
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I salute you, sir.
 
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