<p>right now? your classmate</p>
<p>in 10 years? your boss</p>
<p>We call people like that “that kid.” You have no business disrupting a 200 person lecture unless the professor made a drastic mistake on the board or something.</p>
<p>We call them “question frosh.” (Doesn’t matter if they’re no longer frosh; you’re supposed to outgrow this behavior frosh year).</p>
<p>The question you have to ask yourself before you interrupt a lecture is: “will the rest of the class benefit from this question/comment?” If not, then ask the question or make the comment after class. If yes, then ask/comment away. I think this is common courtesy to your fellow students, but I imagine some people disagree. Also, I doubt this question works very well on “question frosh,” who probably believe that everything they have to say is beneficial to the class.</p>
<p>There is nothing wrong with a student asking a question. I always sit front and center in my classes and will ask a question if I am confused. What about the people upset that I am slowing down lecture or disrupting class? **** em. They are usually too socially frightened by the prospect of asking a question during class. The main reason I am at college is to learn, yea there is a ton of other fun things and people to do, but as a student I honestly couldn’t care less about what other people might think of my questions.</p>
<p>Now there is always THAT guy who interrupts class just to show off or spew some random conspiracy theory. I saw these kind of people frequently when I had to take a political science class for my major. These people would take 5 minutes to ask a question because while doing so they felt the need to list facts and statistics in a way to look smart, ever, single, day. THAT guy is a ******.</p>
<p>In some lectures here there are kids who ask questions not because they’re genuinely confused, but because they’re trying to show the professor and everyone else how smart they are. That’s not a love of learning, it’s a love of the sound of their own voice.</p>