This is my first semester with uiowa but previously I went to NAU and PVCC in AZ so I’ve been in college class settings before, but have never had this issue. In my discussion classes no one will talk to me… at all. In my first group we were doing okay but then I missed two discussions in a row because I got covid and when I came back they refused to answer me when I asked questions and when we were doing the group work the recorder snapped at me and told me to be quiet when I was asking how they got an answer for one of the questions.
We switched groups so I thought it would get better but my new group is worse lol. I went to sit down near them and they kept scooting away from me. I told them “I’m hard of hearing, sorry can you speak up a bit?” Like 4 times and they all kept rolling their eyes when I asked then they continued whispering and moving away from me so I literally couldn’t hear anything.
And one of the questions they kept asking each other how to get the answer so I said “oh I have the formula here, and I got this answer [shows them the answer]” and the recorder girl for the discussion paperwork took one look then said “no that’s wrong. I don’t know how you got that.” Then she called the TA over and the TA went through the problem and got the exact same answer as me because she did it the way I did.
I am very confused on if this is normal…it feels like high school behavior in a college class and very immature. I’m technically a junior in college but this is happening in a freshman class that I’m taking as a “refresher” so maybe that’s why? Has anyone else had these issues? It’s very frustrating trying to get work done when people are like this.