There's ALWAYS One!

[gphi2k2]

Today was my first day back to school since I graduated from University 2 years ago. And I was reminded right away of one of my BIGGEST pet peeves. There's ALWAYS one person in the class who does not shut up. And I'm not talking about someone talking to the person beside them. I'm talking about the person who speaks up while the professor is talking, ALWAYS ALWAYS has their hands up and never has anything really valuable to say. Is it just me who has been fortunate enough to have at least one of these people in every class I've ever had???

Example: I am in a program that only has about 50 students. The other week we had an orientation and we were allowed to ask questions. Well this guy (who is probably in his low to mid 40s) raises his hand and asks if our schedules are going to change or if we're going to have fridays off all year. So our professor says 'you will have this schedule all year' to which this man responds with a whole diatribe about how wonderful it is becaue then when he has his daughter every other weekend he can have her a day early...and on and on he went. Why would he think any of us need to hear his life story? We don't even know the guy yet.

And then today in class, this same guy kept cutting off the professors while they spoke and screamed out what he thought would be the last word of every sentence. His hand was up the whole time and he kept asking brilliant questions like 'do we need to read the newspaper?' while in our Current Events in Journalism class. Everyone in the class is annoyed by him. And today was only the first day! It's going to be a loooooooooong two years.

There's always one! Please tell me I'm not the only one.