Upon arrival to Monday’s microeconomics lecture, many students realized that our head teaching fellow would be substituting in for our professor. This is not the first time this has happened.

When our TF began his lecture, students decided it would be appropriate to get up and walk out. It didn’t stop there. Throughout the whole lecture, students continued to walk out and those who didn’t leave thought it was OK to talk over the TF.

How about a little respect? In some of my other classes, I feel downright awful when I miss a class because my professor will take it personally. Imagine how our TF felt when not only did people not show, but people walked out on his lecture or talked and laughed the whole time. Would it really have hurt to sit through a measly 45-minute lecture to respect not only our head TF, but our professor who put him charge? I think not.

Everyone who left must take a minute to remember why they came to BU. You came here to learn. Maybe you haven’t learned yet that it is rude to walk out on a lecture, no matter who the teacher is. In a class where half the students decide not to show up on a regular basis, another 100 leaving once the lecture begins is a disgrace, no matter who is teaching. Going to your lecture should not be decided whether you like the teacher, the weather is good or how late you stayed up the night before. It is your job to attend classes, and you need to be there.

I would like to commend the students who do come to class regularly and who did respectfully sit through Monday’s lecture. Without you, there would be no economics class, literally. To everyone else, it looks like you need to grow up and find some respect for the people trying to educate you.