10 Types Of People You Will Meet At University

Alicia Watts

1. Mrs know-it-all

You know, the one that always puts their hand up in lectures, or maybe they don’t even put their hand up, they just start talking. After the first few weeks, you know it will happen in every single lecture you have with them. That “look” you give to your friends when they blabber on, you’ve stopped paying attention to what they are actually saying. It’s just noise, a now compulsory, routine noise every Monday at 10am. You’ve begun to recognize their voice now, so much so you don’t have to turn around to see who’s speaking, and you can hear them a mile off down the hall.. and maybe in your sleep too..

2. The.. wait, who is that?

I have never seen that person ever in my life but now he is in our exam. Does he even go here? And they Ace their exam. FML.

3. The one that’s always late

I’m late occasionally, sometimes I miss my alarm, sometimes the traffic is bad, understandable. But what I do not understand is how this person can be late every single day of the week, for the whole semester. 9-A-M, do they think every lecture starts at 9:14? No, you’re disrupting me. It’s quiet, things are running smoothly, you’re slightly panicky that you don’t know why you have taken your degree but THEN the door slams open and the sweaty creature breathlessly struts in, with the most rustly attire, and sits right at the back. Do you have a pet dragon that needs to be fed at exactly 9am daily or are you just one of those people that thinks running to class late looks cool?

4. The one that is bmfl with the lecturer

Now, we all have our favourite lecturer but then there’s the “mature” student who sits right at the front every class. Is she keen to learn? Perhaps. But then the lecturer makes some silly grammar joke about the past, the present and the future walking into a bar and saying “it was tense”. Alright, calm down Sebastian. But THEN this mature student cracks up laughing like there’s no tomorrow, and then does extra reading for the homework and brings it in to show poor Sebastian, who frankly, doesn’t look like he gives a monkey.

5. The questioner

So it’s the day before your final exam, you’re having your last seminar and everyone is there trying to clog in all the information at the last minute. Then the little quiet one in the corner asks, “So what’s the exam about?” Dayum girl.

6. The “everything you’re saying relates to my life”

So today we’re gonna talk about the Gulf War. - Oh my god, my granddad was in that war, you know, the one about golf! I’m sorry whut.

7. The one that thinks they’re too good

“I’m wearing a leather jacket, I come in not too early but not too late, I won’t sit with you because I’m better than you. I won’t laugh at any jokes. I won’t participate. I’ll sit here, rocking back in my chair, staring around the room with my judging eyes, with an occasional look down towards my phone because this is much more interesting.” I would be annoyed with this person if they didn’t look like they were carved by an angel. The only thing this person is useful for here is having some eye candy, but I hate them.

8. The click

This isn’t just one person, but a duplicate of this person x4. You never see one without the rest of them, they sit together ALWAYS, they will never partner up with anyone else. And you must always leave them seats next to each other. You do not want to see what they look like when they find out there are only 3 seats next to each other and Britney has to sit next to the smelly one.

   9. The smelly one

He’s actually a pretty nice person once you get to know him.

   10. You

Because you won’t admit you belong to any of the rest.