<p>You know in lectures, they are the ones who usually sit in the front rows (almost always, most of them are adult students) and they ask all the questions and answer all the questions too.</p>
<p>Sometimes they are really annoying.</p>
<p>people who actually want to learn??</p>
<p>Is this question serious?</p>
<p>I call them old people that sit at the front of the room and ask lots of questions. </p>
<p>The most annoying are the guys in math class that practically tell the teacher what to write on the math board. It’s funny, this semester my teacher seems to have let it to go to the point that 8 or so people fight to answer the questions/fill in the blanks. XD</p>
<p>Also: The ones that just won’t shut up. </p>
<p>A runner up is when people refuse to use tissues and just sit there sniffing and sniffing through the whole lecture, especially when it’s a test. Hehhe. Seems to be the in thing now.</p>
<p>Adult students are really funny. They’re like SO into it, it’s hilarious. I mean they probably should be if they’re going back to school, but they always ask like a million questions and half the time you’re going “…how is that even relevant?” </p>
<p>I recognize on CC people might not find them as amusing, but whatever, lol.</p>
<p>There’s a guy in my history of modern science class that raises his hand to speak literally a dozen or so times every class period. It’s so annoying, and usually what he says has nothing to do with the lecture - it’s usually something to the effect of “that’s very interesting, but have you heard THIS alternate theory?” or “was this based on the works of [x obscure Icelandic philosopher that no one in the room has ever heard of]?” He’s not old, but definitely late 20s and this is his first year. Though, I think it has less to do with him being older than the fact that he’s a pretentious loudmouth.</p>
<p>…nerds?</p>
<p>People who are in college for the education and not the copious booze?</p>
<p>^Yep. They’re so annoying! ;)</p>
<p>I call them people who want to learn…but take it a tad far and don’t let others answer.</p>
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<p>These are the type of people I mean.</p>
<p>Don’t know. But in almost every humanities and social science class in the world, there’s usually this one guy who sits at the back left/right corner and chimes in with tiny bits of useless (though often interesting) information on the topic. They call him the “it guy”.</p>
<p>They’re called “gunners.” :)</p>
<p>Somewhat relevant, but in my Modern Physics class, people start asking ass loads of questions one after another about stuff relevant to our content, but beyond the scope of anything we would need to know for the class. The professor regularly ends up burning 30 minutes of class just answering peoples ridiculous questions. I’ll admit, I do find a lot of the questions interesting, but they should really be asked after class so the professor doesn’t run out of time trying to explain material that’s actually relevant to the scope of the class.</p>
<p>Not to mention, it starts feeling like people in the class are trying to one-up each other by asking “more interesting” questions than the last.</p>
<p>People who are there for an education and actually want to learn?</p>
<p>I think there’s definitely a difference in these people</p>
<p>There are the people who sit in front and ask questions for clarification and stuff.</p>
<p>Then there are the really nerdy kids who always try to ask really detailed questions to show how smart they are.</p>
<p>I had one in my frehsman chemistry class. he would always sit front and center and ask 50 questions a period and they would always be really advanced, nerdy questions that we never even went over. the professor would always have to say “oh wow thats too advanced for this class” and then he would look around like he was so smart</p>
<p>eventually i just starting saying YES. YES. YES. YES. anytime he would talk</p>
<p>^That is be pretentious behavior, not nerdy. One can be a nerd without being a giant butthole.</p>
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<p>I don’t want to put a damper on things but way “back in the day” I was one of those students who sat up front and asked questions. Granted, most of the time it was in these large lecture halls with 200+ students. Sitting in the front row helped me concentrate more on the lecture rather than having the distraction of looking at the hundreds behind me to remind me just what a faceless, nameless little blip I was in that class, and hey, maybe the prof would even recognize my face in the halls! So what’s wrong with that?</p>
<p>There’s a difference between students who ask legitimate questions about course material and students who constantly derail the lecture by asking questions that are only tangentially related just to show how smart they are.</p>