Last week in class there were other students beside and behind me that were being loud. They were talking loud, sniggering and laughing pretty loud as they chatted and passed notes around. Now mind you, I was not paying attention either. I was pretty much occasionally listening as I surfed the web, but at least I was keeping quiet (lecturer is hard to hear in the room). Obviously they were just there for the attendance, otherwise they would not have came to class. I barely attend it as it is--hopefully I will not fail from lack of attendance :x. But I thought it was pretty disrespectful for them to be so smurfing loud and obnoxious. Eventually one of the TAs who was sitting not far away came over and told them to keep quiet.