{"id":7827,"date":"2015-02-18T16:09:03","date_gmt":"2015-02-18T16:09:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress72\/?p=27109"},"modified":"2025-12-19T11:22:25","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:22:25","slug":"annoying-students-get-aggravated-by-noise-know-it-alls-and-lazy-fellow-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/2015\/02\/18\/annoying-students-get-aggravated-by-noise-know-it-alls-and-lazy-fellow-students\/","title":{"rendered":"ANNOYING! Students get aggravated by noise, know-it-alls and lazy fellow students"},"content":{"rendered":"

Students who distribute flyers at the start of lectures, latecomers, housemates having loud sex and dirty toilets. We all have our pet hates and that\u2019s just the same at EUR. EM<\/em> went out and asked students: what do you find irritating? <\/p>\n

Perhaps you recognise yourself in one of the following statements. Maybe you are the person who is irritated or the one behaving in an irritating fashion. In total, 150 students answered the question: what do you find most irritating? And this is their top 4.<\/p>\n

1. Students making a noise during lectures <\/b><\/p>\n

A good 25 percent of students find it irritating when fellow students talk, make telephone calls, listen to music or play games during lectures. The most common reaction: \u2018that childish attitude of students who are there because they have to be rather than because they are interested is very irritating.\u2019<\/p>\n

2. Know-alls in your study group <\/b><\/p>\n

13 percent get annoyed by know-alls, i.e. students who constantly try to go one better and people who \u2018do their annoying best\u2019. Another irritation: \u201cpeople who continually ask questions during lectures and work groups; \u2018just so their voice is heard\u2019 and \u2018people who pretend they haven\u2019t done any work and then get a 9!\u201d <\/p>\n

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Latrice Venetiaan (Sociology) is irritated by the toilets in C building and near the University Library. \u201cThey are really filthy and often wet\u201d.<\/p>\n

3. Noisy students in the University Library <\/b><\/p>\n

People who don\u2019t respect the quiet areas in the library and elsewhere on the campus. 8 percent of those surveyed hate being forced to listen in on someone else\u2019s life story. Students are also irritated when it comes to the category study places: not enough places to study. Or students in the library who set a screensaver to \u2018be right back\u2019 and then don\u2019t return for hours. And what about high heels in the library: \u2018really bad for your concentration\u2019 and leaving books lying around after you\u2019ve finished making photocopies.<\/p>\n

4. Lazy, selfish fellow students <\/b><\/p>\n

What about slackers? \u201cStudents who have high expectations of others in a group assignment but don\u2019t do any work themselves\u201d. Or: bad grammar in group assignments: \u201cmeaning I have to go right through someone else\u2019s work and correct it, when I\u2019ve got better things to do\u201d. And also: \u201cpeople who start asking questions just before exams about subjects which were addressed ages ago because they never show up to lectures\u201d. Being arrogant and selfish is not appreciated either: people who \u2018are only concerned about their CV or promoting their own interests\u2019. NC<\/p>\n\n\t

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