I must be insane, or just a bad person, but this issue has come up over and over again, and here I go reacting the same way. Except NOW there is some little indication that I am not the only one with this insanity.
Every morning we have lectures, and everybody sits there and tries to type every word that the lecturer says. It is not because this is the ONLY place to get the information - but because the beauty (if you can call it that) of the lectures is that they have done the work and have gotten for us the material that's most likely to be tested out of the hundreds and hunderds of pages of material that there exists generally about a particular topic. So theoretically - we don't really NEED the lectures - all the material (and much more) is contained in gigantic volumes of books that we all have on our bookshelves at home, but the lectures put it in a more or less digestible form, and cut it down significantly. Yeah.. i'm sure you all care. so anyway.
This guy (and there's always some guy) sits next to me. We chat, we're on friendly terms, he's a nice guy as far as guys go. Usually he takes handwritten notes, but recently he started bringing his laptop like the rest of us. He knows how to type - so it's not an issue of slow typing. But for some reason, he takes notes off of MY computer screen, and NOT from listening to the lecturer. And it's not just a matter of looking over to my screen to catch a sentence that he happened to have missed. Oh no. He just sits there, and even though we're BOTH exposed to identical material - while I write it down from listening to it, he invariably copies it off of my computer. Word for word. Everything! I've checked. I thought maybe I am crazy. So i've stopped typing mid-sentence to see if he'll stop - and he does. And when I continue - he'll copy the last half of the sentence that I just wrote down. It is driving me CRAZY!!! I want to choke him, I almost want to sabotage my own note-taking so that he'll get something wrong. Often, I'll just start playing solitaire, so that the game will cover up my word document as soon as I'm done typing), and do you know what he does then? He just looks over to the girl on his left, and coppies off of HER screen in that case.
Please, somebody - explain to me WHY!!! How did he get thru law school if he is incapable of paying attention for even a second, and incapable of synthesizing what is said into written form? What the fuck is going on here?
So we get 10 minute breaks after each hour, and when I came back from the break, the guy must've still been in the bathroom. And you're not going to believe this, but I noticed a couple of seats next to me there was a new guy, who wasn't there before the break. And I overheard him talking to his friends, and he was saying that HE SWITCHED SEATS BECAUSE HIS FRIEND WAS COPYING THE ENTIRE LECTURE OFF OF HIS SCREEN AND IT WAS DRIVING HIM CRAZY. I was so excited, that I immediately owned up to eavesdropping, and told him that I am having the exact same issue with my neighbor. So what is the moral story here - I am not the only insane person who this bothers. Or perhaps that there are tons of people around who are too lazy to bother even attempting to listen and instead are perfectly content mooching off of others.
Ok, we now return to our regularly scheduled programming - which is studying.
Ciao.
Every morning we have lectures, and everybody sits there and tries to type every word that the lecturer says. It is not because this is the ONLY place to get the information - but because the beauty (if you can call it that) of the lectures is that they have done the work and have gotten for us the material that's most likely to be tested out of the hundreds and hunderds of pages of material that there exists generally about a particular topic. So theoretically - we don't really NEED the lectures - all the material (and much more) is contained in gigantic volumes of books that we all have on our bookshelves at home, but the lectures put it in a more or less digestible form, and cut it down significantly. Yeah.. i'm sure you all care. so anyway.
This guy (and there's always some guy) sits next to me. We chat, we're on friendly terms, he's a nice guy as far as guys go. Usually he takes handwritten notes, but recently he started bringing his laptop like the rest of us. He knows how to type - so it's not an issue of slow typing. But for some reason, he takes notes off of MY computer screen, and NOT from listening to the lecturer. And it's not just a matter of looking over to my screen to catch a sentence that he happened to have missed. Oh no. He just sits there, and even though we're BOTH exposed to identical material - while I write it down from listening to it, he invariably copies it off of my computer. Word for word. Everything! I've checked. I thought maybe I am crazy. So i've stopped typing mid-sentence to see if he'll stop - and he does. And when I continue - he'll copy the last half of the sentence that I just wrote down. It is driving me CRAZY!!! I want to choke him, I almost want to sabotage my own note-taking so that he'll get something wrong. Often, I'll just start playing solitaire, so that the game will cover up my word document as soon as I'm done typing), and do you know what he does then? He just looks over to the girl on his left, and coppies off of HER screen in that case.
Please, somebody - explain to me WHY!!! How did he get thru law school if he is incapable of paying attention for even a second, and incapable of synthesizing what is said into written form? What the fuck is going on here?
So we get 10 minute breaks after each hour, and when I came back from the break, the guy must've still been in the bathroom. And you're not going to believe this, but I noticed a couple of seats next to me there was a new guy, who wasn't there before the break. And I overheard him talking to his friends, and he was saying that HE SWITCHED SEATS BECAUSE HIS FRIEND WAS COPYING THE ENTIRE LECTURE OFF OF HIS SCREEN AND IT WAS DRIVING HIM CRAZY. I was so excited, that I immediately owned up to eavesdropping, and told him that I am having the exact same issue with my neighbor. So what is the moral story here - I am not the only insane person who this bothers. Or perhaps that there are tons of people around who are too lazy to bother even attempting to listen and instead are perfectly content mooching off of others.
Ok, we now return to our regularly scheduled programming - which is studying.
Ciao.
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