The class begins quiet. It’s early in the morning, so as the professor begins his well-prepared lecture, the students fall silent and submit to his low yet controlled voice, which projects loud and clear through the microphone. The echoes of louder spits of phrases bounce of the walls with a boom. The room is very spacious, so the slightest sound is amplified and multiplied. Whether it’s the occasional adjustment of a chair, the ruffling of papers, clicking of a keyboard, or a dropped pencil, the sound is a bump in the road for the tired students trying to pay attention, or catch up on a night’s lost sleep. As time goes by, the air grows thick with anticipation and restlessness. Soon, attention is quickly drawn to the source of any sound breaking ambient continuity. Students pack their books and laptops well before the end. When it comes, so do the voices of the students. Before long, however, even the sound of muffled discussion dies down; and so, once more; the room is engulfed by silence.
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