49 Things to do in a boring lecture

49 Things To Do In A Boring Lecture!




1. Bring a blowhorn. Use it when you ask or answer a question.

2. Heckle the professor.

3. Hire a video crew to come to the class. If asked about it, say
that you have to tape the lecture for a friend.

4. Bring a water gun. Shoot the professor when his back is
turned.

5. Get the other students in your row to do the wave.

6. Bring a small chalkboard to class. Ask the professor if you
can borrow his chalk to take notes.

7. Contradict everything the professor says. Offer irrefutable
scientific proof.

8. If it's a math lecture, claim that the professor misspelled
pi.

9. When the professor asks a question, raise your hand. If the
professor calls on you, point to someone in the next row and say
"He knows." Pick a different person each time.

10. Buy a doll. When you go to class, leave the doll in your
chair, along with your notebook and pen. Say that you have an
important meeting to go to, and that the doll will be taking
notes for you.

11. Bring a typewriter. Use it to take notes.

12. Write a love note. Sign it "a secret admirer". Get someone to
pass it to the professor.

13. Get up to go to the bathroom five or six times during the
class. Change clothes every time.

14. While taking notes, write vulgar words every few lines. If
anyone asks, say you have Tourette's syndrome.

15. Buy a watermelon. Give it to the professor. If he/she asks,
say "They were out of apples."

16. Bring a small tape player. Play a tape of the previous
lecture. Take notes on both.

17. If it's an English class, ask how the theory of relativity
relates to Shakespeare's "Midsummer Night's Dream".

18. Pretend to be asleep until five minutes before the end of
class. Then wake up and explain that you missed the lecture, and
ask the professor to summarize what he/she talked about.

19. Bring a can of spray paint. Use it to take notes on the
classroom wall.

20. Bring a fully-stocked picnic basket to class. Explain that
you didn't have time to eat breakfast.

21. Wear a loincloth to class. If anyone asks, say that it is
your costume for the school play, and you didn't have time to
change out of it.

22. Tear out pages of the textbook and make little origami
animals out of them. Have a whole menagerie by the end of class.
Give them to the professor as a token of your esteem.

23. Bring a fishing rod. Try to catch things on the professor's
desk.

24. Bring a tape player and a tape of a thunderstorm. Keep it
hidden. Sometime during the lecture, start the tape, stand up,
claim that the professor has angered the gods and leave. Watch to
see how many students follow you after the tape starts playing.

25. Make reserved seating cards and place them on the desks
before class.

26. Tell the professor you are on a new experimental cold
medication that may have strange side effects. Every ten minutes
or so, run around the room screaming. Afterward, claim that you
have no memory of what just happened.

27. Claim that you are the new student teacher, and that you are
to give the lecture for that class. If the professor agrees,
lecture on a subject completely opposite the to subject of the
class. If the professor objects, say that the students should
have a wide range of knowledge.

28. Switch the professor's lecture notes with your history notes
from last term.

29. Raise your hand and ask when the movie is going to start.

30. Bring a flash camera. Take pictures every few minutes, using
a very bright flash. If anyone complains, say that you didn't see
any sign saying you couldn't bring cameras.

31. Bring a light bulb. Hold it over your head whenever you have
the answer to a question.

32. Bring an easel and a paint set. Paint a portrait of the
professor during the lecture. Say that it is a homework
assignment for art class.

33. Sneeze very loudly. Then, have the person next to you sneeze,
then the person next to him, and so on. See how long it takes
before the professor sneezes.

34. When the professor comes in, say, very loudly, "Hey! A
substitute! All right!" Claim that the real professor said you
could have lecture outside.

35. Come to class wearing the same outfit as the professor. Call
the professor a copycat.

36. If it's a geology lecture, switch the quartz crystals with
New Folgers Crystals and see if the professor notices. Have a
hidden camera.

37. Hide a ticking clock under the podium. Call in a bomb threat.

38. Write your assignment on Plato on your little sister's
modeling clay.

39. Ask questions in a foreign language you know the professor
doesn't know. Act angry when he/she doesn't understand you.

40. Come to class dressed as a professional wrestler. Tell people
you joined the wrestling team. Body slam anyone who doesn't
believe you.

41. When the professor comes in, suddenly scream, "NOOOOOO! Not
him! Not professor Johnson!! They let him teach again!
NOOOOOOOOO!" then run out of them room. See how many people
follow you.

42. Turn your row into a mosh pit.

43. Before class starts, turn all the desks upside down. Sit on
them like you would normally.

44. Two words: American Gladiators.

45. Make requests like people do at rock concerts. ("Relativity!
Relativity! Einstein rocks!")

46. Bring popcorn. Throw it and the professor. Complain that
these trained animal shows aren't what they used to be.

47. Bring a tape player and a tape of the school bell. Play it
every 15 minutes.

48. When the professor calls on you, mumble incomprehensibly.
Answer every question in this fashion. See how long it takes
before the professor stops calling on you.

49. When you take a test, hire a security guard to stand by your
desk and make sure no one cheats off your paper.