A student falling asleep in class.
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What are the most annoying things students do in class?

Korey Maas, History: “I have all my freshman boys at 8 a.m. so usually they’re too busy falling asleep to be annoying.”

Nathan Schlueter, Philosophy and Religion: “I’d have to create an itemized list. Well, when they’re falling asleep in class, using their phones, not bringing their books…. really a lot of things they do.”

Ivan Pongracic, Economics: “Start packing up before I’m finished with the lecture. But I’m sure the students would answer that the most annoying thing the professors do is not finishing the lecture on time!”

Jeffery Hertel, German: “An old rule of war is to “know your enemy.” While war is an imperfect metaphor for college education, one must nonetheless have a semi-accurate idea of the identity of an author if the work is to be accurately judged and credit is to be given where it is due. This task of reconnaissance (“Aufklärung” in German, which is the same word they use for Enlightenment) becomes much more difficult when work is turned in without the author giving his or her name. In the proverbial war of wills and words that is the classroom, assignments turned in without any sort of identification are akin to non-uniformed partisans, and as history shows us, these don’t tend to have the same rights and protections as declared combatants.”