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Do you clap on your last day of lecture?

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Something I've noticed in classes is that people clap on their last day of lecture. Three out of four of my last classes this week had people giving a round of applause because it was the last lecture of the quarter. Personally I don't, but more than half the classes I've been in have.

So GAF do you clap after your final class for the quarter/semester?
 
We did, it's a group thing really - one person starts clapping and so goes everyone else.
For the record I'm not American ;)
 
Our students "clap" after every lecture by knocking on their tables.
 
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Something I've noticed in classes is that people clap on their last day of lecture. Three out of four of my last classes this week had people giving a round of applause because it was the last lecture of the quarter. Personally I don't, but more than half the classes I've been in have.

So GAF do you clap after your final class for the quarter/semester?
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I went to uni about 8 years ago and that wasn't a thing over there.
 
Of course I do - I'm an American. I left school a long time ago but I still show up in a random class the last day of every quarter to give them my Patriotic Clap.
 
I can understand that happening in certain classes, but not as a general rule. Perhaps if the professor is especially well-known in academia, and the students were happy to have someone teaching of that caliber, or in a more personal class with a lot of interaction between students and instructors (like drama). But Calc 101? That would seem weird.

In my case, at College (in Canada), I shook the hands of my instructors on my final day, and thanked them. But in a Canadian College (which is kind of halfway between a US College and a US Community College), it's not uncommon to have the same couple of instructors teaching the vast majority of your classes, so they all knew us pretty well.
 
Depends on the prof.


I remember an absolutely shitty prof who got no applause whatsoever.
 
Funny. Is it really not common to clap, or do something similar, in American academia? As I said, here (in Germany) we 'clap', usually by knocking on the tables, after every lecture or presentation, even if it's a presentation by students, not something given by a lecturer. It's a standard courtesy.
 
Shaking their hand and saying thanks after turning in the final is more common.

Through eight semesters, I probably only had like two professors get clapping after the last lecture.
 
Yeah. It was pretty common at my UC.

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Shaking their hand and saying thanks after turning in the final is more common.

Through eight semesters, I probably only had like two professors get clapping after the last lecture.
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I recall that the clap was after the final lecture, and people could still do the handshake on the separate finals day.
 
Never been to a class where they didn't unless it ended on a super weird note, e.g. the last class was cancelled or the last class was just a video.
 
lol no, all my professors hated my because I barely showed up to class. I would have probably gotten in a fist fight if I tried to pull that.
 
In Engineering, we crawled out the class in our lifeless and deformed bodies.

After filling out the ABET review of course.
 
I've only experienced people clap after a lecture if it's a guest lecturer or just a really stunning presentation.

One of my anatomy professors was so goddamn good in getting the entire crowd engaged that she'd almost always get an applause after she's done teaching. She's amazing.
 
I looked my professor dead in the eye socket and I said






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People clap for like a guest lecturer or presentation but I don't remember clapping at the end of the semester. Some people shake hands with the prof, say thanks or whatever.

I'm an american btw.
 
I've had my class clap for my professor on the final lecture for every class of every semester, and this is my 9th semester.

Canada, by the way.
 
depends on the prof. I had this one prof finish the semester with this awesome lecture where he tied the entire course together in about 3 minutes. I don't think he took a breath. got a huge applause.
 
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