Slice of life: Marcucella Lecture Hall

by Konstandina Martucci
edited by Brian Carey

9:00 am struck, students slammed their keyboards and pencils hit the papers while Frederick Rodgers lectures 45 students about post-glacial sea-level rise.

For the regular early morning lecture class, students were sniffling and sneezing due to the cold, damp weather this morning. Typically there are about 100 students in this class, however, the cold and dark morning caused more than half of the students to not arrive. Professor Rodgers has a slight cold with hanker-chief in hand and coarse voice while trying to project and engage the smaller population of students.

The students with pen and paper were vigorously taking notes slide by slide, while the students with laptops and headphones focused on their Netflix shows, and some even played videogames. A distracting moment occurred when a student’s headphones accidentally unplugged from there MacBook and played out loud the Friends theme song, the class took part in a laugh with Professor Rodgers who smiling then redirected the distracted class.

As the clock struck 9:40 students began to get fidgety, knowing there is only 10 minutes left they started to put their laptops away and jackets on because they are ready for the class to come to an end.  The students should know better because Professor Rodgers is not the teacher to let students out early, especially when he has important material to go over.

“I believe it grinds peoples gears when there is only five minutes left and the professor still continues to teach,” said Junior Jenna Raymond

(Photo: Konstandina Martucci)

Frustration showed on the student’s faces at 9:49 when the Professor then decides to do the attendance for the ending of the Oceans Lecture class.