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why do college students sleep in class?
why go if you sleep??
Replies: 21Last Post Feb. 28, 2006 1:46pm by stene
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I do not understand why students attend class if you are just going to sleep. Stay home and sleep if you are tierd. stop wasting your teachers, and your peers time. It's annoying to listen to hear that guy next to you snoring in your ear.

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Throw something at the snoring kid and tell them to go get a coffee or a Red Bull or something.

I have the common courtesy to keep my ass in bed if I'm that tired... I mean... I... I go to class all the time.  Totally awake and eager to learn... stuff.

What was I talking about?      

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im guessing they dont go on purpose to fall asleep there, they probably are too tired from the work so they just fall asleep

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Quote: from Native Daughter at 2:52 pm on Nov. 27, 2005

Throw something at the snoring kid and tell them to go get a coffee or a Red Bull or something.

I have the common courtesy to keep my ass in bed if I'm that tired... I mean... I... I go to class all the time.  Totally awake and eager to learn... stuff.

What was I talking about?      



i like your theory..how bout u just throw a red bull at them?    

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I know some people fall asleep for good reasons but the thing that gets me is that every class this kid goes to he snores and he was transsfered into the school for free and he is attending under my tax dollars thats rude

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Quote: from cheerleadersbugme at 3:53 pm on Nov. 27, 2005

Quote: from Native Daughter at 2:52 pm on Nov. 27, 2005

Throw something at the snoring kid and tell them to go get a coffee or a Red Bull or something.  

 I have the common courtesy to keep my ass in bed if I'm that tired... I mean... I... I go to class all the time.  Totally awake and eager to learn... stuff.  

 What was I talking about?      



i like your theory..how bout u just throw a red bull at them?    


Well that certainly cuts out the middle-man, neh?  

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Because I work a job and go to school at the same time and some of the professors are really boring. You must be a professor. Eew...

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They don't get enough sleep at night and also the professor is boring to listen to.  I have a friend who fell asleep in his biology class because the professor is boring.  Some kids were in my zoology class this past week but I never did that.  Also professors don't care if students do sleep in there class because it supposedly doesn't affect how the teacher is.  It does matter though because if all the students fail a class then it shows that the professor can't teach.  I know how that is because my zoology professor sucks.  She talks about stuff that doesn't have to do with the class and she is just bad at teaching.  Hopefully she will retire soon because she looks like she is in her 50's or 60' maybe.

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No I am not a teacher but when a kid is snoozing in class and is there on a free ride wasting my tax dollars to me there is something wrong with that. I am sorry I am trying to learn, I am just as tierd as the next kid but I still keep my ass up drive an hour to school come home and go to work. So to me sleeping students there is no excuse.

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Quote: from misnick at 4:25 pm on Nov. 27, 2005

No I am not a teacher but when a kid is snoozing in class and is there on a free ride wasting my tax dollars to me there is something wrong with that. I am sorry I am trying to learn, I am just as tierd as the next kid but I still keep my ass up drive an hour to school come home and go to work. So to me sleeping students there is no excuse.

Well if he sisnt learning anything then he will fail out and your tax dollars will stop being wasted on him.  If he can sleep and still do well enough in school to get a free ride then props to him.  

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I've never had anybody in my college classes fall asleep during class.  It happened in high school, never college.

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I agree that it's stupid, but if people want to waste their own time, let them. What really bothers me is when people fall asleep in class and then later ask for notes, or, the one time they actually cant make it to class, they flip out as if it's somehow different than them sleeping through it. I, for one, just don't ever go to class. Solves the problem pretty effectively, I must say.

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Quote: from misnick at 10:50 am on Nov. 27, 2005

I do not understand why students attend class if you are just going to sleep. Stay home and sleep if you are tierd. stop wasting your teachers, and your peers time. It's annoying to listen to hear that guy next to you snoring in your ear.

Well...sometimes I fall asleep for 5 minutes in class because it is sometimes difficult to sleep with my jackass roommate in the room. God I hate him. Dumb as a brick, total jerk, the maturity of a 10 year old, and completely weird.

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I take a couple apples when I have early classes, or boring classes. apples have tons of natural sugar and it's way better than coffee or energy drinks to keep you awake. but even then, sometimes it's a real struggle. but if I know I'm not gonna make it through without passing out, I do stay home, I hate to do that though. soo I should be getting to bed now..

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Quote: from unknown figure at 3:52 pm on Nov. 27, 2005

im guessing they dont go on purpose to fall asleep there, they probably are too tired from the work so they just fall asleep

He has a good point. I know plenty of extremely intelligent people who have nodded off a few times here and there, and it's not because they don't want to learn. I'm up until 2am or later everynight because I have so much homework. I start after dinner at 6 and go straight until midnight. Can't blame students for being tired, especially during exams or hell weeks.

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