did you ever have a teacher who is just so boring?
By jlara_gtr34
@jlara_gtr34 (3491)
Philippines
May 31, 2007 2:28am CST
hi guys. i have a teacher like this. i have a 3 hour class with her and im telling you, it is really a pain in the neck. lolz. i have to keep my eyes open for three straight hours and my mind is already drifting to somewhere else! lolz. i have been daydreaming because i think i can only keep my attention on her for about 45 minutes, 1 hour would be the longest. lolz. :P
what about you? did you ever have a teacher who is so boring? what did you do to amuse yourself while you were in her class?
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16 responses
@jencai (3412)
• Philippines
1 Jun 07
I have alot of them when I was in College. Those professors make me feel sick. Sometimes I can't help myself, my eyes wanted to close. We have no choice but to stay in her/his class. There are times when I just keep my focus on the lesson alone, I mean I study by myself. Or I will have a conversation with my seatmate and talk about any interesting topics.
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@jlara_gtr34 (3491)
• Philippines
1 Jun 07
actualy, it is not so weird. me and my friends tend to do it every now and then too. :) lolz.
@jlara_gtr34 (3491)
• Philippines
1 Jun 07
getting sleepy in class is really not a good feeling especially when the classroom is airconditioned, i tend to fall even more sleepy because of that. lolz. :P its nice to talk with our seatmate but sometimes there are teachers who are just too strict and then they will scold us or shame us infront of the whole class. :P
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@masterviajero (697)
• Philippines
1 Jun 07
yup had this teacher back in high school. he taught electronics.. mind you he's not only boring, he spoke so soft that only he can hear what he is talking. and he faces the blackboard and not the class! what we did to amuse ourselves? played tic-tac-toe with seatmates.. or any high school games that you can play with paper..
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@jlara_gtr34 (3491)
• Philippines
1 Jun 07
haha. :P you are right, there are some teachers who seem to be contented in just talking to the blackboard and they are assuming that we can understand them. lolz. :P i guess they are those old-fashioned teachers, right?
@masterviajero (697)
• Philippines
1 Jun 07
haha yup, you're right.. he's kinda old when he became our teacher.. doesnt seem to mind us, as long as we pass the written and practical examinations..
@alfonseelric (894)
• Malaysia
2 Jun 07
Yeah. There are good teachers and the boring one... back at school then, i will give my full attention in class so that i don't have to revise again after class. So it will save some of my time.
But except for one or two subjects. Most of the times, i drew something or wrote a short story or a poem. She never noticed anything.
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@jlara_gtr34 (3491)
• Philippines
2 Jun 07
haha, i guess the boring kind of teachers give us the chance to explore our creative juices. :) lolz. some of my classmates can really draw funny caricatures of our teachers and we always have fun looking at it after classes. lolz. :)
@mymytri (2030)
• India
1 Jun 07
yeah.i have a teacher so boring and hate to attend the class.i dont know how he got a job as teacher.i feel i can teach better than him.oh god we had his class/peroid in the morning itself.imagine how you feel whole day having a boring class starting itself.as he cant teach propperly he call us one by one and tell us read the lesson aloud till the period ends.
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@jlara_gtr34 (3491)
• Philippines
1 Jun 07
haha, you know what, you are right! there are those teachers who are just like students who are doing some report. lolz. :P i admit that i am not so god inreporting but there are times when i think that i can catch and hold the attention of my classmates more that one of my teachers. lolz. :)
@mameiha69 (157)
• Philippines
1 Jun 07
whena teacher is boring, i tend to do other thing. texting, or sleeping. but sometimes when i can't bear it anymore, i ususally raise my hand tell the teacher, "ma'am i'm really bored about the way you teach, so could you be more lively?"
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@jlara_gtr34 (3491)
• Philippines
1 Jun 07
hey there! looks like we have something in common. i do that too. its either i sleep or i text or i fall asleep if my textmate replies too long. lolz! :)
oh wow, you do have some guts when you tell your teacher that!! wow! i salute you! and then, what does she say? how did she react to your suggestion?
@rangics (1334)
• Philippines
1 Jun 07
Yes ;) Lucky for those who doesn't! I just simply slip a piece of paper to my classmate who sat beside me and try to open a discussion. I'ts quite fun but of course we haven't paid so much attention to our lesson on that day so we'll end up reviewing that night. ;(
@jlara_gtr34 (3491)
• Philippines
1 Jun 07
ooh, passing notes is a classic thing to do when you are in a boring class. lolz. :) we used to do that in the old days, when we were younger. but now that there are cellphones, we dont pass notes to each other anymore, we just text each other. lolz. :)
@cuttyrish (2667)
• United States
31 May 07
yes, i did have experienced having a boring teacher. It was my math teacher, at first his teaching style were fine, but as we go on, his voice makes us sleep. I am always sleepy on his class because of his voice. I remember having my one eye close and other open just to keep up with what his teaching.
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@jlara_gtr34 (3491)
• Philippines
31 May 07
haha! really? well, what kind of voice did he have? was it like a dj? or something like that of a radio newscaster who would speak in just a monotonous tone? or were you sleepy because of the way he spoke?
@h_gaurd9 (986)
• United States
1 Jun 07
Wow! I used to have a teacher back in 8th grade who made every fall asleep. No joke! He was an Integrated Science teacher, but his voice was so deep and monotone that it was hard to stay focused. I couldn't keep my attention for more than 5 minutes without talking to someone else. I would sometimes take out my agenda book and make some drawings. It was that boring! I don't think I've learned much in that year. Some teachers are just so boring! =)
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@jlara_gtr34 (3491)
• Philippines
1 Jun 07
ooh, i get those kind of teachers sometimes. they are the ones who seem to have the voice which can lull us to sleep. lolz. :) you know, i also have a notebook which are just full of doodles, devoted to the teachers who are just so boring. :P lolz.
@Norstar (694)
• India
1 Jun 07
You could probably suggest to have a short break every one hour or so. Tell you what 3 hours of continuous class could be monotonous. I have not heard of 3 hours continuous class being conducted anywhere.The problem may not be as much due to the teacher or with the teacher as wuth the duration of the class.
I think breaks are required. All the best to you and your class mates.
@jlara_gtr34 (3491)
• Philippines
1 Jun 07
you are so right. three hours of boring classroom discussion is really a pain in the neck and not to mention, a pain in the behind, since we're sitting for so long, and mind you, our chairs are made of steel. lolz. :P
but there are breaks, too. we have a thrity minute break between that three hour duration, but its not enough. lolz. :P when the class resumes, the class gets even boring. haha. :P
@japboy (572)
• Malaysia
31 May 07
yeah,i have an experience with the same situation like you too.He's my business lecturer,and he just read the material that he gave us for reference.He need to explain it more about it,not just read.All of my friends felt bored when it's the business class time.Sometime,i even skip his class because not many students come to his class.
@jlara_gtr34 (3491)
• Philippines
31 May 07
ooh, yes, i so agree with you on that one. some teachers have to know that they shouldnt just read their lecture because we can read it ourselves, you know, lolz. :) teachers should practice and learn to be more interesting so that students wouldnt have to skip their class. lolz. :)
@zandi458 (28102)
• Malaysia
31 May 07
I can't remember much but history has been my most boring lesson because my teacher do no know how to make the subject interesting. Telling past story has never excite me. He kept on reading from the text and by the time he finished it I was already in my wonderland.
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@jlara_gtr34 (3491)
• Philippines
31 May 07
well, that's the weakness of some teachers, they tend to just read from the text. lolz. they seem to forget that we already now how to read by ourselves. lolz. :) well, i hope they attend some seminars which would make them more interesting. :)
@eipril (401)
• Philippines
1 Jun 07
yah ..my teacher in social studies .,mrs. comagon ,,she's so boring when teaching ,.and i feel sleepy when she's our teacher .,^_^ but we(my classmates and i) need to listen to her discussion because she always call a student to answer her question about the topic that we're discussing .....
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@jlara_gtr34 (3491)
• Philippines
1 Jun 07
whoa, you are brave, you've included her name! :P lolz. :) haha, there are really those teachers which are so cruel. they make the lesson so boring and yet they still want the students to pay attention and she checks on their attention by calling them to recite. :P
@gemini88 (34)
• Philippines
1 Jun 07
oh yes I have few teacher who are so boring that one teacher suddenly said in the class that she feels sleepy! how's that?well she's reading the book alright we tend to entertain ourselves on our own, she felt sleepy is her fault. maybe she taught she's listening to a bedtime story hahaha!
other teacher i tend to draw them. i'm not an artist but hey i need to keep awake just to finish the subject. if only those subjects are not needed in order to graduate
@jlara_gtr34 (3491)
• Philippines
1 Jun 07
hello there gemma! guess what, just like you, i tend to draw my teachers, especially those who are boring. lolz. :P and mind you, i am not a good artist so my drawings always end up looking all distorted. lolz. :P
@paradise12 (938)
• India
4 Jun 07
yaa actually i had she teachas us biochem.my goodness god only know what she teaches.most of the time i m absent for lecture
@jlara_gtr34 (3491)
• Philippines
5 Jun 07
hi there! ;0
biochem, huh?
what course are you taking up? ;0
gad, teachers must really learn the art of being interesting or else students would always skip their class! ;0 lolz!
@mean_queen (1713)
• Malaysia
31 May 07
yeah! i used to have a teacher that was sooooo boring! i just slept in class.. i didn't care. he was so boring that sometimes he doesn't even care whether the students are asleep or not. because he knows himself that he is boring~! haha.. sometimes i just go out of the classroom because i can't take it anymore.. he'll just say, 'ey, where are you going?' and i'll just say 'out..' and then i just walk out.. i'd rather study by myself than having to sit in his class!! =P
@jlara_gtr34 (3491)
• Philippines
31 May 07
haha, yeah i have also undegone through some teachers like that, who dont even care if his students are already sleeping or bust texting or chatting with other people. lolz. :)
@jlara_gtr34 (3491)
• Philippines
31 May 07
hi there. i never really like physics subject and we had this laboratoy class which was so boring so i ended up cutting classes. well, not really cutting classes because i was just outside the classroom, talking with my friends while my other groupmates were busy experimneting and measuring stuffs inside the laboratory, lolz. :)
