Tuesday, 10 June 2008

In and out of Lectures

Well, I have completed the short course I attended at Pretoria University. The campus is great. Spotless, no litter, buildings in very good repair, safe parking with guards, lecture rooms well equiped and clean and staff really polite and helpful.

A lot of work goes into preparing for and delivering lectures. The lecturer I had was super. Very knowledgeable and one of those people who just knows how to get the message across. We were given comprehensive notes and lots of hand-outs. The experience was so nice I almost ran off to sign up for more courses!

But, and here is the little mystery - can anyone out there tell me why the younger students feel that they have to leave to lecture hall every 20 minutes or so, come back in, make people move or stand up to let them back to their seats, send sms's, write each other notes.....despite our prof giving us the break times in the morning! There was this steady little stream up people bobbing up all the time.

My daughter has just been to a CSI conference - and she says exactly the same thing happened there.

Is this just bad manners?

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