Tell me one good thing that happens when a teacher leaves the classroom unattended. Nothing. Nothing good ever happens when a teacher leaves the classroom unattended. This is an unwritten second grade rule that when the teacher leaves the room, there is freedom for everyone. The first graders don't have the courage to rebel, but when the second grade arrives, the unattended room goes crazy. Even with age and maturity, this rule continues throughout a student's academic career and must be strictly adhered to unless one wants to be an outsider among his peers. However, there is always one boy who continues what he is supposed to do when the teacher leaves even if his classmates find it strange. As far as I can remember, that guy was me. Even now, when the teacher leaves, I don't try to get away with it. I remember thinking when I was little that maybe there would be spy cameras ready to catch me if I did something funny, and even now that I'm older I don't risk it. The one time I do something, I know someone will be there to get me. Going to college I thought everything would be different. I was wrong. Once again, when our teacher left the room, chaos ensued. It wasn't even a different, more mature form of chaos. The exact same things happened that happen when a second grade classroom is left unattended. The only differences were that they used better vocabulary and the boys and girls were not afraid to talk to each other. Before leaving the classroom, our teacher gave us simple instructions: just discuss the reading and say how it can be applied to everyday life. Then he walked away, leaving a group of tired and stressed college students arguing about homework that no one wanted to do in the first place. As soon as... middle of the card... aged to participate inside. For once, a jock was kind to the nerd. It was fantastic. He may never tell his friends what he did and he may never say hello to me during class, but at least he was respectful. We weren't really friends yet, but at least I knew he cared enough to apologize to us. The rule that was never written but is followed by nearly all students in American classrooms still applied in that college classroom. While it's a fun time of chaos for most of the class, some students don't feel the same way. I had always felt like an outsider to the rule, but that day I thought maybe I wouldn't be alone. There was even a boy in my class who felt guilty about panicking. Even though he was the cause of the panic that followed when the teacher left the room, he was the first I had ever witnessed attempting to calm the panic when the teacher returned.