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I can’t stand spoiled rich university kids that get everything handed to them and have the gall to complain about how their life is so hard through every lecture class while all the people who’s futures depend on their grades try to hear the proff talk over their lame ass life stories.
—not rich
This article appears in Mar 5-11, 2009.
18 Comments
Turn head.
Make eye-contact.
Say “Mommy and daddy might be paying for you, but mine aren’t. Shut up.”
Enjoy the lecture.
Here’s a tip: The next time you hear one of these douchebags whining and complaining, start repeating everything they say REALLY LOUDLY. When the prof looks at you and asks what the hell you’re doing, you say “Just repeating what you said Prof ___” when you get a blank look or negative response you say “Oh wait, that’s what these idiots here couldn’t shut up about. Sorry, I couldn’t hear your lecture over their whining”. It should embarass the hell out of them and get the to shut the fuck up.
A+ Never Wrong. Although all my instructors were excellent at telling people to STFU.
Hahahah … excellent idea Never Wrong. sadly, if you go to Dal you will encounter these types in just about every class. It makes me wish it took more brains than money to get into school these days.
Hit them with a bag of toasters after the lecture
I hate those cock-whores. Hellakitty is right: if you go to Dal, it’s something you’ll just have to deal with at least for the first few years. After that, they die off. Money can only get you so far, really.
When I went to Acadia I had a few profs who would just throw you the fuck out if you didn’t stfu, but not before shaming you in front of the class. I wish profs at dal/smu/msvu/kings had the balls to do the same.
Get over it. There’s always going to be people who are richer and people who are poorer. Thank fuck you’re somewhere in between. You’ll appreciate what you accomplish much more because YOU made it happen. Having money is no golden key to happiness – sometimes it can be a curse, especially if daddio is pressuring you into a field you don’t like. Take pride in the fact you didn’t rely on handouts and leave it at that. There are better things to be angry about.
calm down. there are people that do go through tough times. we all have the right to vent. including you.
I think the OP’s frustration is really coming from the fact that people don’t STFU in class. Shit I don’t care WHO is talking in class: rich, poor, blahblah, I just think it’s fucking rude to talk during a lecture to both the prof and the people who actually want to listen and it happens all the fucking time (I’ve been to three universities and it always happens and it’s always the sameeeee girls who natter on and on during classssugh). Chances are the OP would bitch regardless if someone was talking in class so much that they couldn’t hear the lecture (I know I would).
yeah i see where he’s goin. i don’t mind complainers, but people that complain for the dumbest, most pathetic reasons really stir me.
pk, it also helps that the class sizes are by and large MUCH smaller at Acadia. That was the #1 reason I chose to go there.
Listening to profs over a speaker-system = no report with the prof. After first year, all my prof’s knew me and I knew them. It was easier to come to know what they’re expecting and demanding of you and their course.
I’m with Anton here, make a trip to Wal-Mart with your friends and pick up some cheap toasters. Toss some doorknobs in for good measure and swing away. Problem solved, at least until you get that prison inmate who won’t shut up.
zZz: yeah, you have a good point. Some of my classes in Huggins 10 were huge and the profs didn’t give two shits about anything going on around them and half of the people sitting at the top of the auditorium were just watching porn anyway (yay acadia advantage! *rolls eyes*)….so…
Hmm, were these kids from Ontario by any chance? I saw a lot of THAT when I went to SMU, at the time you could tell all the Ontarians by their yoga pants stuffed into their UGG boots….yup, I don’t give a shit about your new VW and 4 trips to the Dome last week. I’m getting into debt here trying to listen to the professor over my growling stomach from not having anything to eat…
Acadia has many advantages, but their bloody expensive. School here in general is bloody expensive. Im really loving working my ass off seven days a week in my senior year of high school so that I might be able to get out of first year debt free.
I love NS… but faaack, school here isnt cheap. I can go to the mall if I want to hear constant nattering, and I dont even have to spend money.
I love the lectures I went to at Acadia though… mind you, there were only forty of us there – so that was really nice.
I havent really added anything to this… but man. I wish my parents were rich.
How do you know they are rich and their parents are paying for University? Not all rich kids behave this way, some actually appreciate the education they are receiving. Don’t be so quick to hate them because of their socioeconomic background, hate them because they are not respecting the class.
PK, it’s funny, I never had a class in huggins 10.
Not sure which type of courses were in there (because it’s technically the math building and math was one of my majors) but my biggest classes were 1st year philosophy classes in the big BAC room by the coffee place.