A professor of mathematics university has discovered the hard way that silence is not always quick.
After a two-hour Zoom lecture, Professor Dong Wang of the National University of Singapore soon realized that none of his students heard a word because his microphone was muted, reports the local newspaper Independent.
Wang then asked questions of the approximately 20 students who connected the whole class – and got nothing but crickets.
“No … uhhh … can we finish our class?” he asked.
Eventually a few students talk and tell him that he has been dumb all the time.
“We can not hear from you since 6:08,” one student told the cursed prof.
“Of what?” Wang asked the student who confirmed the time. “You mean, how long have you been hearing?”
A student replied that they only heard a little at the beginning, at 18:00, and nothing from 18:08 but his screen froze.
A clearly rattled Wang then told the class that he would repeat the whole reading again.
Azusa Chan, one of the students, told the newspaper that the professor had inexplicably dampened himself.
‘Students tried all sorts of things to get his attention by muffling his phone number and even calling. However, he did not respond and continued with the lesson, “the student said.
‘The number of participants decreased over time, as students could not make contact with the prof and could not find any other profession. What you see here are 20+ students who waited patiently for two hours for the professor to return, ”Chan added.
The student explained that Wang did the whole lesson on an iPad, “so you can expect a lot of things to go wrong during such a setup.”
‘After this incident he left [sic] ‘his phone next to him when he gives a lecture so we can call him in an emergency,’ Chan said.