Keep Entertaining Us, Oh Crazy Hyped Up Girl!

The buzz around the watercooler here at Nuts In NY Plaza today has been this report filed by Ashley Tiffany-Amber yesterday. Just the kind of wackiness that gets folks here talking, some fine nut gathering.

Ashley writes:

I am a graduate student at New York University… In one class, there is a crazy girl. She talks so much. Every class… she just sounds a bit hyped up on coffee. Or speed. Everything she says is frantic, complete with hand gestures and bobbing (in and out of her seat). She comes off as oddly excited and inquisitive…

Remember in high school when taking standardized tests? Students would always ask about how to fill in bubbles? Even though, for the most part, it is self-explanatory? She asks questions like that. And then asks for oh-so-much clarification. On everything…

The teacher…listens politely and is neither dismissive nor, you know, interested in what she is saying. She hasn’t, as of yet, been so irritating that students hate her because while she sounds moderately insane, she limits herself to 1-2 bursts per class… Either people really don’t mind, or they are polite enough not to snicker when she speaks. I think it is a little of both. Until last class…

Professor was explaining something, using an example, but not saying who’s paper it was in order to be polite. Crazy girl started asking questions. Then said to us, “Just so you know, it’s my paper he’s talking about.”

To which our professor responds, “I didn’t want to embarrass you.”

Crazy assures him, “You’re not embarrassing me,” and continues, while the student next to me whispers, “No, she is doing fine on her own.”

Crazy continues to argue that her paper was clear, etc., etc., and “I think you should read it again,” offering her assignment back to the teacher.

At the end of her frenzied protest, she apologized to the class, as she was taking up our time with her individual concern. However, I gathered from the class’s general reaction to her that we all thought what she did was very much worth our time with its entertainment value…

Thanks to Ashley for the keen reportage, for acting as our eyes and ears at NYU, and for finding such a perfect nut!

Read more about nutty students, ummm-kay? Or maybe there’s a perfect nut you know that you’d like to share with the rest of the class??

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