People being loud and disrespectful in lecture halls...

[Linas]

Semi rant. So i have two classes in a 300 person lecture hall and every time there are always so many people talking and holding conversations at normal level when the prof is teaching. It really distracts me from learning sometimes and i want to do something about it but im not sure how. Why do people go to lecture if they are just gona talk and not listen. ***? Im not sure if i want to be shussher but its really starting to piss me off. Anyone else have this problem?

[Pilgrim]

Solution simple: sit in the front row every day. That's what I did in big classes. You also become an identifiable face that has a name with it, and that doesn't hurt you one bit when grading time comes around.

I assume, of course, that you attend class every day, which is the correct approach.

[MakiSupaStar]

+1. Either that or crop dust them with an egg fart.

[theshadow2001]

Roll up a ball of paper smack it off their heads and then tell them to shut the **** up.

The aggressiveness will be less annoying than being the shusher.

[Armueller2001]

Originally Posted by theshadow2001

tell them to shut the **** up.

+1

You might add a comment like "SOME of us don't want to work at McDonald's the rest of our lives..."

[Scarlet Fire]

Or, if you're polite about it and say "Excuse me, could you keep it down a bit? I can't hear the professor," they'll probably be more than happy to quiet down. That way, you're not the obnoxious shusher, and they don't feel attacked.

[Pilgrim]

Eat large amounts of tacos. Burritos, too. And buy them at the absolute cheapest taco joint on campus.

When the lecture rolls around, no one will want to sit within 10 feet of you.

[JNowiski]

Just yell: "AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH" at the top of your lung one day. probably won't stop them from talking but it'd be hilarious. video tape it if you do it too.

[MakiSupaStar]

Stand up and yell "DON'T TAZE ME BRO!"

[L-A]

I'd be the kind of person to walk up to them and say soundly "Hello! Welcome to the lecture hall!".

Any kind of public humiliation, actually.

[Baryonyx]

Originally Posted by Pilgrim

Solution simple: sit in the front row every day. That's what I did in big classes.

+1

I did this as a rule in Uni, sit in the front row. Met one of my best mates there too. My lecture halls and auditoriums at uni were designed to channel sound forwards and backwards, so the lecturer could always hear what everyone was saying, even in a lecture with 300 people in the room. They ended up told off and a few disciplined.

[jucas]

This has been driving me crazy lately. Even sitting right up front its rediculous, and barely any profs call them on it... Even worse that we get teleconferenced lectures now and then, if the prof isn't physically there, there's people wandering around talking.

Asked a few and sometimes they're quiet, and others it turns into a yelling match because "I should be paying attention to the prof and minding my own business".

Seriously, how do pople reach this point in their life and feel that they're so important that their mindless rambling can't wait 50 minutes?

[deggial]

Originally Posted by Linas

Semi rant. So i have two classes in a 300 person lecture hall and every time there are always so many people talking and holding conversations at normal level when the prof is teaching. It really distracts me from learning sometimes and i want to do something about it but im not sure how. Why do people go to lecture if they are just gona talk and not listen. ***? Im not sure if i want to be shussher but its really starting to piss me off. Anyone else have this problem?

That has been my experience as well, here in Greece, despite the fact that:
a) attending lectures is not a requirement.
b) most lectures in my department can also be viewed online.

Politely asking them to lower their voice has never worked either.

[Fassa Albrecht]

Originally Posted by Chris2112

+1

I did this as a rule in Uni, sit in the front row. Met one of my best mates there too. My lecture halls and auditoriums at uni were designed to channel sound forwards and backwards, so the lecturer could always hear what everyone was saying, even in a lecture with 300 people in the room. They ended up told off and a few disciplined.

Our lecture halls are like this too. The biggest one, the Curtis Auditorium, is designed so that even little sounds at the back are heard at the front.

I also sit as close to the front as possible, partially because our professors are so quiet!

[Stanley Design]

Paintball gun?

[Baryonyx]

Originally Posted by Fassa Albrecht

Our lecture halls are like this too. The biggest one, the Curtis Auditorium, is designed so that even little sounds at the back are heard at the front.

Well they're on the right track, shame about the teaching there!

[Fassa Albrecht]

Originally Posted by Chris2112

Well they're on the right track, shame about the teaching there!

Least I don't go to McScumbria!

[jucas]

Originally Posted by Fassa Albrecht

Our lecture halls are like this too. The biggest one, the Curtis Auditorium, is designed so that even little sounds at the back are heard at the front.

I also sit as close to the front as possible, partially because our professors are so quiet!

I think they might be using the lecture halls backwards?

[Fassa Albrecht]

Originally Posted by jucas

I think they might be using the lecture halls backwards?

Don't worry, anything that happens at the front can be heard at the front!

I've played in that auditorium and the bass acoustics are superb!

[Benjamin Strange]

Do what I do when people are talking at the movies. Tell them, under no uncertain terms, that you will give them a flying elbow smash to the eye socket if they don't shut up.