College Instructor Busts Her Students With Embarrassing List Of Things They’ve Been Browsing In Class

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College, am I right?

Those pesky classes you’re required to take can be so boring. Do they really expect people to just sit there and listen?

Pffft…not when everyone has the internet at their disposal 24/7.

Unfortunately for the students in graduate-student instructor Meg Veitch’s class at the University of Michigan she knows this all too well.

In fact, she knows this SO well that she made a nice little presentation to the class showing them all the things she’s witnessed them browsing online when they should have been paying attention.

Here, let me blow that up for you so you can get a better look…



Let’s see here… We’ve got the usual: cat videos, Amazon, Facebook, Reddit, sex tapes… pretty standard stuff.

But, wait, hold up… Buying $240 worth of turtle necks? Photoshopping President Trump onto Muppets? Looking at pictures of sliced bread? Wut?

As for why Veitch decided to share this list with the class, she tells The Chronicle of Higher Education

I am a student instructor for the class. There’s two of us for oceanography — it’s an introductory course — and the professor who runs it, Brian Arbic … really enjoys using exercises with the laptop, working with Google Maps, that sort of thing. So he doesn’t want to ban laptops in the class, but by the same token he doesn’t want students doing things that aren’t really taking notes or looking at the lectures on the laptop.

In particular, if you’re watching a video or playing a game, it’s not so much your distraction. It’s distracting to everyone behind you. He tells them at the beginning of the year, they’re not supposed to do this, and that the graduate-student instructors will take away the laptops if this happens. We’re not going to take away the laptops.

We’re supposed to tell them to knock it off when we see it. But both myself and the other graduate-student instructor found really quickly there’s a bunch of students we couldn’t reach in the middle. And I actually started keeping the list just because it would help to remind myself, at the end of class, there was someone I couldn’t get to in the middle that I needed to pull them aside and say, “Hey, you shouldn’t watching Planet Earth 2” in the middle of class.

So I started keeping this list, and at some point I showed it to the professor, and he thought it was hilarious. And he thought he should let the students know that although he has repeatedly told them that the graduate-student instructors were walking around and looking to make sure they are on task, many students have been ignoring it, and these are the things we have seen because of it.

I guess it was a bit of a shaming tactic. You could definitely see some of the kids in class recognize their behavior when the list went up. I will tell you for that class, the first third of it, no one was even on Facebook.

But, seriously, what about the person who bought $240 worth of turtlenecks?

That one stuck to me just because we see online shopping, but there were only three turtlenecks, but it never occurred to me you could spend so much on three turtlenecks. I was just shocked.

Trust me, Meg, it is very easy to spend $240 on turtlenecks, especially when you are “a fucking pimp.”

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