Red Dawn.

Nursing school pet peeve #483:

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So, I'm sitting in the Health Sciences computer lab today after my semesterly math proficiency test.  I'm trying to knock out a few skills lab hours (I have to do 12 a semester) and I thought I'd check out the question/scenario programs they have in the computer lab.  There is a posted and understood rule that there is little to no talking in the lab so you don't distract other students.  Perhaps they need to post that in RUSSIAN.

So, I'm sitting there, answering questions about central venous pressures and heart attacks, when the two foreign students a few seats over from me raise the volume of their conversation from hushed to normal speaking volume.  I can honestly say that at one point they were griping over freeway directions.  How do I know this?  They were talking loud enough for me to overhear!  And everyone else in the lab to overhear!!

And then one of them gets on her cell phone.  It's a documented fact that even quiet people get exponentially louder once their on their cell, and she was no exception.  At one point I did the slow turn the head and then look at them with no expression (or so I think) and then turned back to my screen while reaching for the headphones attached to my computer and put them on.  I never looked at them again.  They continued to carry on, in normal voice tones, and then they left.  Sweet relief.  

And then they came back AND TALKED SOME MORE.  By this point, I was trying to figure out EKG rhythms which is hard to do when two inconsiderate people are gabbing away in a supposedly quiet zone.  Before I had a chance to reignite the Cold War, they left.  Which is a good thing, I was about to launch a water bottle in their direction.

So, lesson as always, with an updated twist- look around and think first because it's not all about you.. especially in the computer lab.