27 Strange Things Students Did During a College Lecture

‘Dude brought his parakeet’
27 Strange Things Students Did During a College Lecture

College is a place of chaos. Sure, it’s a place for “getting an education,” but it’s also a place for bearing witness to unbelievable events. One Redditor, for instance, was in a college lecture when a guy came in to pitch the class on an incredibly cheap deal for a cruise. A few students paid in cash, and the guy even had a portable scanner to accommodate students who paid with a credit card. Eventually, though, the students realized the guy was a scammer, and the professor called security to come get him. 

Thankfully, all of the money was returned, and everyone learned a valuable lesson that day: Don’t trust a random guy just because he has a credit-card scanner. 

Other Redditors have recalled the most off-the-wall things they saw during a college lecture, and some of these stories almost make you want to go back to school.

PhysicsHelp 10y ago Not a lecturer, but a PhD student doing lab demonstrations. Student decided to 'prove' that the Nitrile gloves were unnecessary when handling lead blocks. By licking them. + 137 ...
GrandBandit 10y ago Edited 10y ago Student here as well. This kid sat down next to me in my public speaking class, eating a donut on a paper plate. I look over at him (him and I talked a bit) and notice a ton of writing on his donut paper plate. License plate number, phone numbers, scribbled nonsense all over it. I inquire. Не tells me he smashed into someones car and told them he had a test so he asked they write down all their information on his donut plate so he could call them back. I laughed. After
WeAreFree 10y ago Valentine's day of freshman year, in a lecture hall of 600 students, a guy in underwear and a cape came running through the front of the class cheering, WOOOOOHOOOOOOO!!!! Then ran out the door on the opposite side of the room. Everyone was stunned for a minute, before the Prof said, Not every day you lose your virginity. Standing ovation. 635 ...
limeflavoured e 10y ago Not a lecturer, but a guy in my class at my college once turned up to a lecture dressed in a Star Wars Storm Trooper costume. This being a Games Computing course, no one batted an eyelid. + 591 ...
PatsFan357 10y ago I'm not a professor, but in one of my classes, a kid walked in dressed as Woody from Toy Story and yelled, There's a snake in my boot, and walked out. Professor broke down laughing. 876 ...
nightwing773 10y ago Brought a griddle and made bacon, eggs, pancakes and french toast in a 3 hr 7am lecture. Не also brought a bottle of oj, vodka and champagne. Mimosas and screwdrivers were had. All students partook in the impromptu noms and booze. Не even carded appropriately. 868 ...
J3rm0ff 10y ago Student here. A kid in my class or up in the middle of a lecture and interrupted the professor and says how can everyone sit here with that beautiful sunset happening right now. I have to go watch it. Не gets up leaves all of his stuff then goes outside comes back 20 minutes later and tries to show the professor pictures of the sunset. The professor couldn't stop laughing. Не also did many other strange things. 1.1K ...
sweetpoison02 6y ago When the lecture began there was a cat on the lecturers desk, she assumed it was one of our cats and made an amused comment and stroked it back and said she'd let it slide this time because it was so well behaved and began to talk, none of us said a word all of us wondering who the fuck brought a cat into class, anyway it was a hot day so the door was kept open to let in a breeze and at the end of the lecture the cat jumps off the desk and casually
Kenni6 . 6y ago This one girl hung up her wet laundry which she brought to class with her. Nobody knew how to react, prof included. + 3 ...
sick_burn_bro 10y ago Our school has a very terrible and strange policy where the Freshman experience course has an academic coach who works as a partner with the lecturers. They are supposed to be present in the room and help students with homework, but in practice they just yell at students who slouch. One student came in and the coach told him to remove his hat. The student said fuck that and just left. + 1.7K ...
Aerron 10y ago The only thing I remember is the kid that wore two different shoes. I asked why and he said it was an experiment for his psych class. Pretty boring. + 1.2K ...
Malarazz 10y ago A girl in my econ recitation (not class, we basically did problems and stuff once a week) got called out for being wrong or something like that (not in a rude way, just the ТА wanting to fix her mistake), started crying, and never showed up to the recitation again. It was really sad. + 1.6K ...
Argema 10y ago A friend sat next to a guy who took out a little baby saw and over the course of the semester cut his desk in half until it one day after halloween there was a huge crack and the desk split in half, which was the first the teacher knew of any of it. 2.4K ...
10y ago grzesz Just a ТА, but there was a large Hawaiian kid who attended my professor's Multivariate Statistics class that would roll joints under his desk. + 1.8K ...
theclash06013 10y ago I knew a guy who was taking a class Pass/Fail, he had already been accepted to his first choice law school, and had done well during the first 2/3rds of the class, so he needed a 4% on the final exam to pass, graduate, and go to law school. Не watched The West Wing every day in class with subtitles on for the last month or so. Не also left like 45 minutes into the 3 hour exam + 2.3K ...
MGLLN 10y ago Edited 10y ago I'm a student. This guy is at least 35+ and he acts like he runs the class and like he's equals with the professor. He'll just get up in the middle of class, WHILE THE PROFESSOR IS TALKING, and just walk over to the window and look out of it. He'll stand there like he's Jay Gatsby. Or he tries to engage the professor in off-topic political conversations. I cringe so hard. This is why I'm always wary whenever I see someone in my class who's over 30. + 1.9K ...
XTC-FTW 10y ago e Edited 10y ago Was in a lecture of 300. You had to hand in your assignment at the start of class and some dude who I'm pretty sure never came to class walks in an hour late, puts his assignment on the table then scrambles all the assignments around and runs out. + 2.8K ...
cajunryder 10y ago I teach a freshman zoology lab. More like gross I guess, but a student dissected a fetal pig while eating a turkey sandwich. One hand in the pig, one hand on the sandwich. Had to kindly tell him to finish eating in the hallway while trying not to vomit. Не didn't seemed bothered at all, and actually seemed kind of confused as to why I wouldn't let him eat while he did the dissection. Mind you these fetal pigs had been out for a while so they smelled like rancid meat. + 2.9K ...
5minutesago 10y ago . Edited 10y ago One day I'm sitting in lecture in one of the top rows, and there is a girl with long hair a few rows ahead of me. All the sudden, I see something coming around her neck? It's...a rat. A white rat. Girl brought her pet rat to class. Girl ended up being my best school friend and the rats name is Norma Jean.
 10y ago Some guy came in to one of my lectures and pitched to the entire class about selling a trip to go on a cruise for a really low price. Some people paid him in cash for it and he even had a portable credit card scanner. In the end they found out he was a scammer as he was leaving and professor called security and he tried to run but they got him to return all the money. + 3K ...
aendrea 10y ago Someone in my political philosophy class started watching porn on his laptop in a large auditorium. A girl behind him yelled Can you stop that please? It's really distracting. The professor was a really nice old lady, and she got startled by the yelling and said I'm so sorry. True story in Philadelphia. + 3.1K ...
mastermooney 10y ago A guy at my college came into my morning class about 45 minutes late and looking pretty messed up from the night before. Не proceeded to stumble to his desk and attempted to sit down. Instead he missed the desk, fell on the the floor and then threw up. + 3.1K ...
otherwisenothing 10y ago I have a professor that asks students who use laptops to move to the back of the room. Why you ask? Because of an incident he has since named The Funnel of Doom. There was a students a few years ago who sat in the center of the room and proceeded to play Doom for the entirety of the lecture. Everyone behind him was not taking notes, they were watching this kid play Doom. Не single-handily distracted 3/4 of a 100 student lecture. Hence, The Funnel of Doom. + 1.9K ...
 10y ago college student here, a kid somehow increased the pressure in his water bottle to the point where it shot water almost to the ceiling and then rained down on everyone. The class started laughing and the professor was like woah + 3.6K ...
xMosk 10y ago Guy showed up to my chemistry lab shirtless. This was well after the PPE talk. + 2.2K ...
mudhair 10y ago Dude in my class brought his parakeet...professor didn't notice until it started making bird noises. One of the most wtf looks I've seen haha + 3.6K ...
USCFO . 10y ago Kid walks into class 30 minutes late and flat out says I'm sorry I'm late but I got so fucking stoned in my car that I forgot who I was for the last 20 minutes and called people to ask.. Long story 153 ...

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