Hatred Towards Group Study

So Sam and I went to Starbucks at LB Town Center and started popping our books out. It's another night of study over caffeinated products in another setting away from our usual study spot in the University Library. We began to sink our heads to our books and delve into absorbing, processing, and misinterpreting information.

There were three nursing students across our table. They were, apparently, having a group study session. They were LOUD. They were annoying. "Hey let's go over this...let's go over that...". One person "leads" the group, conveying information paraphrased from the book without understanding such information, while the other two just nod in agreement (and either think otherwise or of stuff remotely related to their material) and enthusiastically repeat some words.

Very annoying.

I don't like this kind of studying because it's counterproductive. You get together with people with the intent of learning and reviewing material. You end up learning about other people's lives, etc. and reviewing how X's car looks like, or how Y's girlfriend is hot, etc. Might as well just hang out.

I also believe that the number of people in a study group is proportional to the amount of time wasted in a session. Try it.

What I like doing though is studying ALONE. Or with two friends at the most working on our OWN material and not giving a shit about the other person unless a question, a relevant one, arises. This is not a group study session at all. It's a study group. There is a susbstantial difference. If you haven't figured it by now after reading this last paragraph with a ver explicit example, you are probably inadequate.