Since attending college, while I have discovered great things, I have also found a few pet peeves along the way. Here are five things that I have realized that I hate since I started college.
1. Closing the elevator doors when someone is trying to get on
Closing elevator doors when someone is trying to get on is one of my biggest pet peeves since coming to college. Growing up in a small town, there weren't elevators like there are in my college town. Just the other day, I was getting in an elevator to study on the top floor of the library. When I approached the doors, there was a guy who locked eyes with me and closed the elevator doors. I would've easily made it into the elevator if he would've waited for the doors to close themselves. If the elevator was full, or the doors had closed themselves, I would've understood.
2. Getting off the elevator first when you're in the back
Another pet peeve I have dealing with elevators is when people at the back of the elevator shove their way to get out of the elevator. Naturally, it would seem that the people closest to the doors would exit first. Some people can't wait 2 seconds and have to shove themselves out of the elevator first.
3. Volunteering someone's answer as your own
Often, professors will ask people to group up and discuss a specific topic. Then, we're either asked as a team to present, or individually volunteer our answers. Once, I had a class where we discussed a paper. One kid didn't participate as a group, but when we were able to talk individually, he raised his hand quickly and reiterated what members of our group had said. In a class that is graded on the number of times we participate, I was peeved. He took mine and other members of our groups' original ideas and got credit for it. If you didn't read something or didn't contribute to the group discussion, I think it's annoying to take someone else's ideas, ESPECIALLY if someone could lose participation points, because you took their idea.
4. Leaving trash
Before I started college, I thought that as college students, we were at the age when we should know better than to trash a place. I was wrong. Some people leave their trash scattered on tables, or desks. I don't see how someone can't take a minute to throw away their trash. I hate it when people leave their discarded garbage all over the place.
5. Talking loudly in the quiet areas of libraries
At my school, there are specific areas of the undergraduate library that is known to be quieter. Specifically, the higher you go in the library, the quieter you should be. I don't mind quiet conversation on the top floor, but I hate it when people are caring out loud conversations or large group projects that you can hear across the library.
