@fortydeuce said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
As someone who is not an auditory learner at all, though, I probably would have done this anyway without the study, too, because I take information in a lot better through reading than through listening anyway.
I had a professor once who told us, day 1 of class: 'If I put it on the white board, it'll be on a test.'
After that point, I largely tuned out lectures unless he was near that white board. As soon as he went over there and picked up a marker, I tuned back in, began taking notes, including drawing whatever he drew out...
I not only Aced that class, I got all the extra credit.
My notebook (because I had people in my dorm who took his classes, too) was also the dorm slut. Midterms and finals would come around and people would be asking to borrow it for their studies because... apparently I was the only person who picked up on that early on enough to have all the notes.
But seriously, that's something I wish more instructors would do. If you wanna lecture at length, sure, but make sure there's a way for people who aren't auditory learners to distill it. I'm a visual / hands-on, so that worked out amazingly well for me.