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<p>I’m sorry, I realized this is late and that you already go to Notre Dame, but after this semester, this question really made me laugh. I couldn’t pass it up.</p>
<p>I happened to pick a random, 20,000-level class in the middle of the day with about 20 football players (out of like 45 students). I won’t drop names but most of them were the big names that you cheer for every Saturday in the fall. There were also hockey players, baseball players, and track athletes. There were about 10 non-athletes and only a handful of girls. I was a little shocked the first day but I figured they’re just like the rest of the students.</p>
<p>Besides, I thought at Notre Dame, no way would I see the dumb jock stereotype but seriously, these guys reminded me of how jocks in high school acted, cracking jokes, showing up late, very obviously texting during class, sleeping, etc. The professor was pretty ridiculous anyway so he didn’t seem to care. A lot of times, the athletes were amusing and none of the other students were really distracted either because the class was kind of pointless (which is why they were in the class to begin with, I’m guessing). But still, I was a little disappointed that in this case, they did kind of perpetuate the “dumb jock” stereotype.</p>