There are always those couple students in every class.

Those who decide that it is a reasonably acceptable idea to begin packing their things while the teacher is still speaking. Students are still listening and it is the most important part of the lecture.

Along with slow walkers, mouth breathers and people who leave their shopping cart in the middle of a perfectly empty parking space, you are included in the group of people many of us would consider “the worst people on planet earth.”

It doesn’t matter that there are still 10 minutes left in the class period. Or that you are interrupting what I can only assume is the announcements for upcoming assignments because there have been certain due dates that I was oblivious to, due to your stentorian behaviors. Or that you are impairing the surrounding students’ hearing due to noise created by your shuffling papers, deafening zippers and the clatter of pens and pencils being collected and tossed into your bottomless pit of a backpack.

No. To you, you are preparing to depart from the class you are obviously so annoyed to be attending. NDSU’s campus is not too large for you to wait for the appropriate time to pack your things. You do not need 15 minutes to get to your next class. Packing your things early will only make me block your way in order to make up for the time you have now wasted for me.

Have you somewhere to be? Do you consider yourself to be held above the standard 30 seconds to pack your notebook and pen into your backpack when it is not considered highly unpleasant?

If you still decide that your time is more precious than everyone else’s, and we are lucky to have you gracing us with your presence, for the love of all that is holy, learn how to PACK QUIETLY. I promise you, it is not that hard. If you absolutely cannot spare the 10 seconds of your time it will take you to pack after the professor has finished speaking, then politely close your notebook without causing a flurry of notebook papers and pens clicking shut throughout the entire class because you couldn’t help disrupting a lecture.

Now, if the professor has held the class long, that’s a different story. By all means, cause a scene. We all have places to be and at that point. To you I say, make as much noise as you please.

So now that you have been warned, I expect that you early packers will understand your errors and correct them. Perhaps you can save face and stop being some of the worst people on Earth.