To text or not to text.

This is my senior year in my undergraduate program and the one constant that I have noticed over my years in college is that in everyone of my classes there is always someone who is paying more attention to their phone than they are to the teacher. Yes, I'm talking about texting. For some reason people seem to believe that if their phone is not making noise and if they are not verbalizing their conversation that they are being sneaky. Well I thought that I would save everyone else the trouble and let you know that your not. We all see you there with your hands in your lap, or pocket typing away like it's going out of style and it's annoying everyone. Maybe you should consider a few things the next time you're about to pull out your phone and start texting away in the middle of one of your classes. Your classmates can see you and it is making them hate you just a little. Not because they are not brave enough to text in class, because you are such an idiot that you are paying for this class and not even paying attention. If you just thought something stupid to yourself such as but I'm on a scholarship", I want you to hit yourself and save someone else the trouble.

If you are one of these annoying people who believes that it is cool to text in your classes you should know that the rest of us don't agree. We are wondering what could be so important that you would risk your future. We are also noticing how annoyed the teacher is and how much they seem to hate you for not paying attention to their class. Did you ever wonder why they always seem to ask you questions when you are in the middle of a text? It is because unlike you they are paying attention, and they have noticed that you are texting in the middle of what I'm sure they believe to be an amazing lecture. They want to make you look like an idiot because you don't know the answer to a question that someone else answered thirty seconds ago. They want the rest of the class to be aware of the fact that if you text in class you are going to be punished. This way if anyone has not picked up on your nasty texting habit they will think that you are a little bit slow.

If after reading this you don't hate yourself even a little for texting in class, please just don't text in a class with me. It is only a matter of time until I snap and do something crazy like grab your stupid phone and throw it against a wall. I know that when I do this you will be in the middle of a very important conversation about who you have a crush on or how drunk so and so was last night. All that I want you to do after you get done telling me that I'm crazy and how you're going to sue me, is to consider that maybe just maybe I have done you a favor.