what are you like in class?

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how do you usually behave in classroom settings?

i was always that "weird quiet girl who sleeps". i was always tuned out, with my head down. or reading a book. after enough phone calls home and parent conferences, my dad started emailing my teachers regularly to make sure i was keeping my head up with eyes on the board. i also had truancy issues.

I am talkative and rude to authority. I am going to start being quiet and not talk to anyone. Friends in HS sucks.

My style always varied. If I was not interested, I was similar to you. If I was, I was the geeky girl who knew all the answers.

Last edited by heatherbabes on 21 Jun 2010, 4:41 am, edited 1 time in total.

That guy whose thinks he's too cool for us.


i.e. the quiet guy who speaks up when he sees something that seems stupid/illogical to him.

I was always spaced out.

OMG, that's exactly the same with me when I was in high school. I slept in every single class except for math. I slept so much that the teacher won't even bother waking me up
During lunch break, I would finish my lunch really quickly by myself and rush to the library, either to read or to sleep. I also went to the nurse a lot and sleep there. My closest friends were the liberians and the nurse

I was The Hippie Artist. I've always had my art supplies, no matter what class I was in, and while the teacher was talking, and after I copied from the blackboard, and my work was done - quickly I was always working on an original piece of Peter Max inspired psychedelia.

i tried to just blend into the woodwork, except when i asked questions that made people uncomfortable.

i'm normally quiet and away form everyone, but now since i'm on academic probation,
i started talking to the professor more. only answering questions. i need all A's

In high school: quiet, apart from occasionally debating with the teacher and refusing to do the work if it wasn't interesting. I got away with it by being academically bright, polite, non-disruptive and because of the fact that if something did interest me, I'd stay after class to discuss it with the teacher.

In university: similar, except that I ask more questions and don't refuse to do the work, because all of it relates to my special interest. I still argue with my lecturers, though, as professors are great to debate against because they have brains the size of a planet. I still stay after class to talk to the lecturers about things that have interested me.

In high school, how I acted depended on the classroom atmosphere and the teacher. In most of my classes, I'd sit quietly, occasionally ask questions, and do my work. My classroom participation was significantly higher in classes where the subject matter was interesting, or where I knew a lot of the answers. But in my senior year I took a creative writing class, and the teacher was really cool and I had a lot of friends in that class, so I was a lot more bubbly and talkative in that class.

I sit there and do the work usually. I've never cared much for the immaturity displayed by the majority of my peers.

I concentrate entirely on whichever machine I'm trying to fix.

Being a little bit faceblind (and not directly looking at people much anyway) I have difficulty telling the kids apart. Embarrassing when someone says "this doesn't work" and then melts into a sea of anonymous faces... I'd hate to be a teacher, not least having to remember a dozen classes times thirty faces.

That's nothing, the teacher once asked me to hand out books to the whole class... I honestly didn't know who anyone was!

I used to be the loud kid who knew her favourite subjects well and would answer any questions (from grade 4+ it was music & french, before that also reading and spelling). Throughout highschool I got quieter and quieter as I got quirkier and quirkier.

By the end I was the kid who lives in the music room and plays all the instruments and teaches everyone else (they had me teach a class of grade 9s once when there was a non-music supply) and makes up whole-choir choreographies for the songs.