Obeast ruins exam This past Wednesday was the final exam in an accelerated programming lecture. I was ready! I studied my ass off, woke up early, drank 2 energy drinks and a cup of coffee in the morning to wake up, and had a conservative breakfast of a banana and a granola bar before I left for the exam. As I was reading the cover sheet of the exam, I saw the usual warnings "don't look at other screens" "you may only use the internet for the course website (online submission of the programs we were writing as part of the exam). Just as I get to "please be as quiet as possible to respect your classmates" I start hearing it. The neckbeard - a 5ft 5 (165cm) male obeast weighing it at (at least) 280 lbs (127 kg)  was across the aisle from me. Most students bring a drink to class (as it was a 4 hour lecture twice a week) that, typical for computer science students, is usually mountain dew or energy drinks. Some also bring a small snack. Food isn't permitted in the lab, but unofficially, if it doesn't make crumbs, isn't sticky, basically doesn't produce residue, you can bring a small snack. This bastard pulled out a giant bag of Swedish Fish (gummy candy) and a two liter of soda. The noise I heard was his chair creaking as he reached into his bag for it. I think OK, not too bad, a little noise is understandable. Except that once he got his juhnetiks laid out around him, all I heard for the next 3 hours was the crinkling of the bag and the creaking of that poor chair. I looked over disapprovingly a few times, and noticed that the wheel base (the plastic part that the wheel mount to and the pneumatic strut to lift it up is mounted to) was bowing under his weight. His neighbor (a human-sized male) was sitting in an identical chair that was just fine, it was not a design flaw. Needless to say, everyone noticed the noise coming from this beast. Because verbal communication was not allowed during the exam, we couldn't say anything to him. We just tried to ignore it. But we couldn't. As soon as I got done with my exam, I left the room and stepped outside. As it turned out, every single person in the room was sitting there, waiting for him to come out so we could say something to him about his excessive noise level. A small group scolding, to state our frustration with him. The end of the 4 hours was drawing near, and he was the only one left in the exam room. We sat and watched. The door was half-way open, and we heard the professor tell him "you have 10 minutes left" and that is when it happened... (Side note, our professor made a point of inviting us to daily pickup soccer games that he plays in, on the first day of class. He is a fit middle-eastern gentleman in his late 50's). "But I'm a bad  test-taker. I need more time!" Our esteemed professor decided that he had enough of the excuses. "You spent half the exam time swinging back and forth in your chair eating more candy than the rest of the class ate during the entire semester. Even the worst students in the class were done half an hour ago. You should have thought about the time restrictions before you spent half the class eating. I told you at the beginning of the semester, I need a letter from the [disabled student resources office] to give you extra time on the exam. You never brought it, which tells me you want special treatment, not consideration. You're not special. 5 minutes and you're done." Needless to say, we didn't feel a need to say anything else to our classmate after that. The ham never even turned on his screen to write the programs, which took most of the time for the rest of us and counted for 65% of the exam.