Today I walked into Animal Behavior and the Psychology Department’s secretary was standing in the front of the room. My professor had canceled the last class and the one before that didn’t take place because of mid-semester break. So we hadn’t had class in nearly two weeks. The TV projector was on, so I figured the professor had given the secretary some sort of movie for us to watch.
I was right. The secretary put the movie in, stood in the doorway for about ten minutes, and then left. Then everyone took out their phones/laptops and started to go online, text, and talk. Hardly anyone was really paying attention. I was on Twitter and AIM on my iPod and was Tweeting about all of this. About halfway through the movie, one person just got up and left. Another girl fell asleep. A few minutes later two more people left. Then three more left. It was really funny. My friend whom I was IMing told me to leave, but I wanted to stay to find out how many people would leave. No one else left and the girl who had been asleep woke up.
At one point the movie screen when blue and then it got really fuzzy. Everyone started talking and when it fixed itself a minute later, everyone groaned. We left as soon as the credits started rolling, though. I was impressed by how many people actually stayed for the whole thing. Only six of about 40 people left.
Filed under: The Daily Grind, the humor of life
What a waste of time, making people go all the way to class when no one is even there to teach!