Venting "participation" in college

[GreenLantern]

At first I actually looked forward to this part of university. The class discussions, group projects (depending on the group), lectures, etc. But at times, when I spoke in class, students would laugh, get combative with me, or give me weird demeaning looks. So by my last year and a half of uni, I gradually stopped "participating" in class less and less. I stopped raising my hand to answer questions and avoided group projects when I could. For some classes when I knew that would be required, I even didn't go to class altogether.

What sucks was sometimes the professor would still call on me anyway, and I'd be pissed. I'm thinking, "ok, I'm actually trying to avoid people's wrath here, but the professor/TA is making it real hard by requiring me to speak in front of everyone in class".

I should've just done online courses, but I even had some fights there too. One was with the professor.

 

[okyeah]

i realized life is just monkeys flinging shit at each other, metaphorically speaking. I'm kinda over it lol

 

[azucaramargo]

At first I actually looked forward to this part of university. The class discussions, group projects (depending on the group), lectures, etc. But at times, when I spoke in class, students would laugh, get combative with me, or give me weird demeaning looks. So by my last year and a half of uni, I gradually stopped "participating" in class less and less. I stopped raising my hand to answer questions and avoided group projects when I could. For some classes when I knew that would be required, I even didn't go to class altogether.

What sucks was sometimes the professor would still call on me anyway, and I'd be pissed. I'm thinking, "ok, I'm actually trying to avoid people's wrath here, but the professor/TA is making it real hard by requiring me to speak in front of everyone in class".

I should've just done online courses, but I even had some fights there too. One was with the professor.

Do you go to a small university, GreenLantern? I did, and the pressure to participate was very strong. I got some crappy looks from people when I tried to chime in, too. Fuck them! When I went to get my MBA, no one wanted to be in groups with me because I got shitty grades. This was a shitty feeling.