You’ll come across a lot of different types of students during your years at Cal. You may assume that, by senior year, students will have learned to budget their time and not have to resort to eating in class. By the time you are a senior, however, you’ll learn that your assumption was wrong. Whatever your major and whatever your year, you’ll tend to find these same archetypes of students in every lecture:
1. The kid who is eating
The long lines at the GBC can make us late to class, but there will always be that student eating his loud sandwich and crinkling his bag of chips.
I can’t take my midterm, professor! I need both hands for my sandwich.
2. The kid on a sports team
You can’t really miss them. They’re really tall and usually sit together in one corner of the room, wearing their Cal gear and drinking from their Gatorade water bottles.
#schoolspirit
3. The kid surfing the Internet
Whether it be online shopping, updating Facebook or checking on sports statistics, you can be sure that this person is not listening to the professor.
Because the Facebook world needs to know how not-interesting this lecture is.
4. The kid asking all the questions
Asking questions isn’t a bad thing, but then there’s always those students who ask way too many questions because they obviously haven’t done the reading. Or they have, and just want to hear themselves speak.
Ask yourself: Is the answer to your question on Wikipedia?
5. The kid who is asleep
Sometimes after a long day of productivity you just have to give in, but there’s always that one person who never even tries to stay awake.
If I lean my head a little above my notes, it’ll look like I’m concentrating really hard.
6. The kid who always walks in late
We are yet to understand the comfort of those who unashamedly and loudly walk into class trying to find a seat in the middle of a row 20 minutes after lecture has started.
Somehow our sleepy brains thought it was possible to wake up at 8 a.m. for our 8 a.m. class.
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