Arriving late to class
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Student 1: Sorry. Sorry, excuse me. I'm just … just coming to sit over here. Phew. Hey. How's it going? So, what have I missed?
Student 2: Nothing. He just started around five minutes ago.
Student 1: Did he say anything about the mid-term?
Student 2: What?
Student 1: About the mid-term tests. Did he say anything about when he was going to hand them back?
Student 2: He's almost finished marking them, he said. We get them next Tuesday.
Student 1: I'm sorry, I didn't catch that. When do we get them?
Student 2: Tuesday. Next Tuesday.
Student 1: OK. Got it. Sorry. What page are we meant to be on?
Student 2: Page 34.
Student 1: Page … 34. Oh, wait. I don't have my textbook. Can I … share with you? Wow. This is hard stuff.
Student 2: Mmm.
Student 1: What does SEO mean?
Student 2: What?
Student 1: SEO. This is all about SEO but he hasn't said what it means.
Student 2: Search engine optimisation. How to appear on internet searches.
Student 1: Internet searches. Right. Right. OK.
Student 2: He said what it meant.
Student 1: What?
Student 2: He explained it before you got here.
Student 1: Oh. Right. OK.
Student 2: Can you be quiet? I'm trying to listen to the lecture.
Student 1: So am I. Sorry. Sorry, one more question. What does this have to do with the American Revolution?
Student 2: What?
Student 1: I don't get it. Why is he talking about search engines in a course on the American Revolution?
Student 2: What are you talking about? This is a class on software engineering.
Student 1: You mean, it's not Early American History?
Student 2: You're in the wrong class.
Student 1: Oh, wow. Now it all makes sense. I'm so sorry.
Student 2: It's fine.
Student 1: Here, I'll just … excuse me. I'm in the wrong class. Excuse me. Thanks. Sorry.
Usually I`ll ask my colleague next to me .
im remain in silence and pretend that i understand all
I should ask the teacher for clarification right away, but, if everyone did this during class, it would cause a lot of confusion. Perhaps it would be better to postpone requests until the end of class, even though that might make it difficult to understand what follows.
Interrupting the professor while he is talking and explaining the lecture is shameful and disrespectful habit. So, asking the classmate could be a good idea but with one or two questions, only, not more. Do not be late to the class! Be punctual.
I will ask teacher at first if I don’t understand something in the class. Asking classmate maybe a good solution, but it may also disturbing teacher.
When I don’t understand something in class, I usually ask the teacher to clear up my doubts. Sometimes I think it is good to ask classmates to compare views on a certain topics.
When you don't understand something in class, what do you do?
Sometimes when I don't understand what the professor is saying, I usually ask to my classmates about the class that I didn't understand.
I noticed that it's important to be on time for classroom
Absolutely it's important to be on time in class
I was today years old when I found this out🧐