Throughout all of ILS, students carry their metal water bottles in their backpacks and hands, placing them on the floor and student desks. Water bottles keep students and faculty hydrated at all times especially in the never-ending summer heat of Miami. However, these bottles can cause some distraction and maybe even a bit of humor throughout the day.
Whenever some of these water bottles fall to the floor, it creates a complete disaster on the floor such as leaks and pieces of ice sliding across.
Sometimes these messes lead to laughter because of its random happening. It makes people laugh because they either know its going to be a mess, or the loudness of it creates a bit of a startle.
Some students at ILS feel these noises cause a reaction from them or startles them, while other students don’t see this as an issue or distraction at all.
Junior Victoria Caicedo has stated her indifference on the noise of the bottles when they clash against the floor.
“If it’s not my problem, I don’t really have a reaction to it at all,” she said.
Victoria added that as long as the water bottle mess does not involve her. she doesn’t give in to the distraction.
Another junior, Raffaella Mandis, explained her immediate reaction to the water bottles chaotically dropping:
This reaction proves that every person has a different state of feeling when these noisy events happen.
These moments cause quite a stir in the classroom and sometimes teachers get a bit frustrated with the distraction especially if it’s during an important moment such as lectures, exams, attendance, and other reasons. Many teachers even get upset at the mess it makes on their floor especially if it is a classroom they are mainly stationed in.
Theology teacher Ms. Katie Church tells of her feelings on the distractive metal water bottles: Ms. Church dislikes the abrupt distraction the bottles make in class, but has an understanding for students as she tends to sometimes knock over students bottles in class as well.
Water bottles collapsing onto the floor appears to be a mixed topic across different minds. Some people don’t find it to be distracting or a problem, while others have feelings towards the situation or have their own reactions to the noise.
