Thursday, May 04, 2006

"Other people wouldn't like to hear you"

Arghhhhh! I can't sleep. ploppy dingo is what I say.

I think its because I'm handing in an essay in a few hours and I know its gunna get a bad mark but I've spent too long trying to work out what I'm meant to have written. But its also because I have this pretty urgent blog to write, I think everyone will agree it is pretty important and not something I should delay...

do people sit by themselves in lectures because:

a) they are loners
b) their friends are ill or whatever
c) they enjoy their own company
d) it's easier to sleep that way
e) nobody likes having to lend people stuff
f) 3 seats are better than 1
g) they got to the lecture late
h) they are worried they will have to sit next to someone who writes this kind of crap
I) of a selection of the above

I think I am a) and c) although f) is pretty true. I think I would embrace h)
In my defense this is only theology since I only sit by myself in philosophy if b) is the case, yeh right aky. Why am I saying this in my defense; what's frickin wrong with sitting by yourself?

However I do enjoy sitting at the back and pondering why the other people are sitting where they are. There must be some kind of 'probability function' (or whatever you call it) you could use for this, I reckon by the end of the course of lectures for a particular module you could quite accurately predict where every other person will sit, or at least if there are people who stick to the same place and people who drift around. This is of course assuming you would want to do such a thing and not just try and pass the module.

man I need some sleep.

1 Comments:

Blogger majeka said...

I often sat by myself in lectures, and I think it's mainly because I hate forcing small talk with people and prefer to just think about stuff. What's the point in talking to somebody you don't care about, about boring things you don't care about, when you could consider things like this? So i guess a combo of c and a. I also invariably got to lectures late, so I guess a bit of g too.

Also i don't fully agree with d - Rhi used to write down the notes I missed as I slept, making the whole thing much easier.

7:30 PM  

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