Today, I decided to give a break to my students halfway through my three hour lecture. The break became the end of the lecture, because nobody came back. FML
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Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, I fell asleep in class. I'm the teacher. FML
Today, I finally got the guts to walk out of class 30 minutes early, only to find that the back door was locked. As I stood there like an idiot trying to get it open, all 200 people in my class turned to laugh. My professor stared at me. I then walked back to my seat, sat down, and unpacked. FML
Today, I drove 3 hours to get to a class, just to have the professor leave a note on the classroom door saying that she wasn't coming. FML
Today, I fell asleep during naptime. I'm the teacher. FML
Today, I fell asleep in class. I'm the teacher; I've already given students detention for falling asleep in class this year. FML
Today, I wanted to punish a student for being late. I decided to start a pop quiz before he arrived. I was positive there wasn't enough time for him to finish. He scored full marks and I couldn't say a word. FML
Today, since I always fall asleep in class, I decided not to go to the bathroom beforehand, hoping the need to pee would keep me awake. I ended up falling asleep and wetting myself in the middle of the lecture. FML
Today, I fell asleep in my last period class. When I woke up my teacher said "you missed your bus". I grabbed all my stuff and ran out the room. My class mates were standing outside the class laughing. We still had an hour left in class. FML
Today, I gave a talk in my management class about creating effective presentations and holding people's attention. Go figure, pretty much nobody paid any attention. FML
Today, during a virtual class, I thought I was muted and said, “I’m gonna fake a technical issue and take a nap.” The professor responded, “Let us know how the nap goes.” I never logged back in. FML
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Top comments
LostInTheZone11 29
Keep teaching the empty room. Then they can't complain on not knowing the info on the test.
whassallt26 13
They paid for university, if they want to waste all that money let them
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Comments (78)
baileybrooke13 15
Are you sure you clarified that it was in fact a break and not the end of the lecture? Maybe they misunderstood
pandor_fml 24
I gotta say as someone who's been through uni, three hours in a lecture theatre is a really hard slog, I'm glad mine were usually 1 hour and only occasionally 2... I'm guessing there wasn't a way to break it up into two shorter lectures due to scheduling. Sucks but I do understand why they bailed out.
Marmelade_fml 7
I thought the brain could only absorb 2 hours of information before it burns out, and everything after that is basically forgotten. So the last hour of your lecture was pretty much wasted anyway.
Eliiara 11
If they knew it was a break, give them a quiz about that portion of the lecture they missed.
hoosiergirl94 31
What kind of a monster lectures for 3 hours?
CanisInfernus 12
Consider taking attendance during the second half of the class, with grades penalized if people don't stay. Or, be more interesting so people want to stay.
christmaswizard 9
As a second year engineering student I understand their pain. My engineering economics also had a three hour lecture and the prof would try to finish a bit early instead of a break. Most boring class ever, he knew we wouldn't come back if he let us go.
allieski 7
I've had three hour lectures before. My teachers take attendance at the end of class and missing more than 3 days resulted in being dropped from the class. They signed up for it they need to suck it up cause it's usually about 16 classes for the semester.
THEDARKLORDOFALL 17
Ima select both here. Your fault for lecturing for three hours and giving them a break but their idiots for not coming back.
soullyfe 33
How is the OP at fault?! Nor did they even get to lecture the three hours and nor are they the ones who select how long the class is. The students knew what they signed up for when they picked their courses for the semester.
Rizzie0512 18
give a test on the entire lecture. then I'm sure they will regret missing the 2nd half