boring lectures what do you do?

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Hello nzalheart. When I was in school, I used to get bored of the lectures that my professors give. What I do is I eat candy. It keeps me awake. I always carry with me lots of candies during those boring classes. My classmates also asks candies from me to keep them awake too. There was this time when I ate the candy I still felt sleepy. So, I opened another one until I feel awake.

Hello nzalheart! This discussion remind me of something. I remember when I was still in college, I remember we have a teacher who just keep on lecturing and that she doesn't mind whether we are bored or not. What we did is just get a pen and a scratch paper, we write something there as if we are taking notes when in fact the two of us were just talking about some stuffs.

I usaually tun out the teacher. It is very hard to sit in a class for 3 hours and do nothing but hear a lecture. I will usaually think of what I am going to do when I get out of class, I will sometimes write things down or draw. More times than not though I am bored to tears.

boring lectures,..sometime in my class i bring my cellphone then hide it in my bag or else i will bring some paper to draw something else,..

oh my god!!....people here have given you enough advices and instruction - "how to avoid boring lectures??" i don't think i can imagine any more....:-) hope I'll use some of these, the next time i get bored in class....

Hi, nzalheart. Well when I was younger, I would pass notes and talk during 7th grade class. I was also laugh at the teacher too. But now as I have gotten older, I will just listen and be in a daze in my mind thinking about other things that are not related to the lecture.

Yup, there are lectures that I hated to turn up, because the lecturers were really boring - just a waste of time! But attendance was compulsory, so I had no choice, but had to appear. So while the lecturer talked, I dreamed - about my interests, weekends, books or other things. That was the only way I could get through each lecture!

Well, not sure if this is something I'd recommend, but I would imagine the tv falling on my teacher or inanimate objects talking....lol. Yeah, I was so bored I was hallucinating! I think drawing or taking notes might be a better option! If you ask questions and pretend to really care, sometimes you actually end up becoming interested! It helps if you do all your homework and really know the material so you can be more involved. It might seem like if you didn't know what was being talked about you would be more interested, but I find that less true. I always try to find something on the topic I'm studying that I'm really interested in. If I can't find anything,I fake it 'til I make it! I guess I just have a good imagination ;)

What I usually do, when I was in your situation before was I always draw something that will make me awake. . I end up sketching/drawing my professor. . and it will turn-out to be a funny cartoon. .hahaha

I used to pretend to be taking notes, but I was really writing letters or short stories. Then there's the reading book hidden inside the notebook. (That one almost got me flunked out of Algebra in high school!) At least with the writing letters, I'd keep that paper underneath the actual note-taking paper. It was very easy to pull over and hide the no-no part. Worked like a charm!

I would ask as many questions as possible. There is no point in being in the class if you are not paying attention/not understanding the material. Ask a lot of questions and maybe the teacher will finally say something interesting or useful. Staring at the wall and drawing pointless doodles doesn't sound like something that is useful or entertaining in anyway. So make it better. Good luck to ya.

The lecture is so boring right now....the teacher may as well as talking about i really can't comprehend anything teacher saying right now... i wish i could get out of it.....i keep looking at the clock and the class is going to drag on another hour....i guess part of my frustration is that my mind on other thing right now...i keep thinking about what a fun day i could've had with my friends....i really don't feel like sitting in the clas...