The other day, Tuesday the 29th of September, I was sitting in a predominately freshman populated course, PSY 101. I usually sit in the 2nd row from the front. That Tuesday happened to be a exam review for the follow Thursday (today). I witnessed a girl who mildly "freak-out" because the 'mock exams' being handed out somehow missed her and she was evidently not happy about it. However, this was a very silent episode between her and her male friend sitting beside her. The both of them did not receive the paper at the time I did. So clearly noticed that there were extras sitting on top of TA's desk, waiting for someone to pick them up. She was sitting in the very front row, no more than 6ft away from that very desk. She didn't so much as flinch. She engaged in conversation with her friend about how they should go about this dilemma. She asked him over and over; "what do I do , what do I do?" Meanwhile, the papers sit on the table, two paces away. It wasn't even like a class discussion was being held, the room was noisy, papers were still be handed out behind our rows, but she still did not move, just complained that she didn't get one to her friend while still looking at the papers sitting on the desk, then back to her friend, and so on. A constant state of mild panic, from the papers to her friend. She never moved. Minutes later, the TA came walking down the isle, toward the desk to begin going over the mock exam. Before she reached the table, the girl called to her and motioned for a paper that she was handing out. She obtained two copies, one for her and for her friend. She never had to move. They both happened to be overweight, not quite obese, but overweight.
Pathetic. Lazy. Call it what you want.
I had to sit and watch as this girl would take ZERO effort in moving out of her damn chair and picking up a paper from a desk a mer 6ft from her fingertips. Instead she just waited until the chance that the TA would walk by her...if she didn't walk past her row, I'm afraid that girl and her friend would go without the handout.
There is something very wrong with our society when I have to witness such an act.
Get out and exercise America. You're making US look bad.
Onward.
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Bahahaha. Well I defiantly sense some hostility here. Haha. In their defense, they are probably freshmen, and still trying to get a hang of the college thing. Maybe they didn't want to go to the front of the class before EVERYONE. Maybe they werent sure the papers up there were the same that were getting handed out. Haha. BUT I do totally see where you're coming from. People are pure lazy. I HATE it when people will take an elevator from the first floor to the second floor, it even bugs me when people take it to the third floor! Seriously how hard is it to walk about a few flight of stairs. Or go to the front of the room to grab a paper.
ReplyDeleteyeah, that sounds a little rediculous, in the same situation, I dont think most others would even have said a word and would have gotten up and retrieved the paper themselves, i know i would have. It just goes to show you that if you have everything done for you all the time and are presented with a situation where you have to do something your self and make a decision, you arent going to be ready to do it yourself.
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