People Who Haven't Done the Work

In first year university, you have to take courses right across the academic spectrum. You have to take science type courses and you have to take arts type courses. And what makes a class good is not the same for each kind.
In anatomy, for example, there is very little scope for discussion and class interaction. You just have to learn the parts of whatever is being discussed and how it works and that's all. On the other hand, political science if done that way with lectures and slides, would be an almost complete waste of time. And I am glad that in my class, I can learn most of what's important by its coming out of a discussion or argument.

On the other hand, I am irritated when people who have not done the readings state opinions as though they were worth something. They don't know anything about it, so how can they have an opinion? The worst is when there are marks for class participation and people who are completely ignorant of everything spout out stuff that you are supposed to listen to but there is nothing at all in it. They don't know anything and they are just talking so that they can get their marks. It's obvious to all of us what's happening, so the prof must realize it too. It's all a complete waste of my time.

Most of all, I hate it when people who haven't done the work interrupt the prof. Of course, if you haven't done the necessary work from previous classes, you probably won't understand what's being explained in this one. But don't interrupt the prof; you're just wasting time for everybody who is trying to do the best they can.