The size of Forum classrooms leads some students to decide that it is OK to have long, irrelevant conversations throughout the entire lecture. This happens to me almost every time I sit down in my economics class. It doesn't matter where you sit, there is always someone close to you talking at an inappropriate volume. They don't even bother to whisper, and this makes it very difficult to concentrate.

I understand that whatever your boyfriend said to you last night made you upset because "it wasn't what he said, but the way he said it," but if you are going to talk through the entire class, then you can take your conversation outside and be considerate of those who want to pay attention. Just because the size of the class makes it unlikely for you to be busted by the professor for chitchatting, doesn't mean you should.