I never had a "spot" but I did notice during law school there were WAY more people who had "their" spot versus people I saw sitting in the same seat during undergrad. I wonder if that is tied to a certain personality trait...
I never had a "spot" but I did notice during law school there were WAY more people who had "their" spot versus people I saw sitting in the same seat during undergrad. I wonder if that is tied to a certain personality trait...
As others have said there is no reserved seats; you get what's available. Maybe the guy is autistic or something? I don't mean that in an insulting way but I work with SEN kids and there is a boy in my year 13 group who would do exactly what you just described without even realising how odd it comes across.
At university it dosen't matter where you sit, people normally dont care.
Last edited by mmocf08512cd4b; 2014-10-25 at 08:37 PM. Reason: misspelled something
Reserved seats, no, not usually unless the instructor sets up the class that way (more likely for smaller classes). So you didn't break any rules. Seating etiquette, yes, that exists. People have preferred seats, sometimes for good reasons you may not know. So you did break etiquette. I know that's not the what you're expecting for your little echo chamber, because of how you loaded your pole choices.
Smaller lecture halls/classes: Where you sit is generally "your" seat. If you take someone else's seat expect to get looks from them at the least.
Big lecture halls/classes: Unless you get there 30 min early don't expect to ever sit in the same seat twice.
The amount of the above mentality depends on how big or small. For instance in a lecture hall of 100 you might have a lot of people who claim seats while others don't give a crap. In a lecture hall of 500 nobody is gonna give a crap except for the front row sitters. In a class of 20 yeah everyone is going to sit in pretty much the same seat that they did on the first day.
Last edited by Kasierith; 2014-10-25 at 09:19 PM.
By nature we get used to a routine
Same for me, everyone sat in the same spot and only moved if the teacher asked us to for group work. I never had any 150 person classes though, all mine were 30 people or under in both undergrad and grad.
I always sat in the back of the room, usually on the edge because it was where I was most comfortable. I once had a teacher once tell me people who sit in the back of the room usually do bad in her class. I told her I like the back of the room and have no plans to fail. I got an A in her class. At the end of the semester I told her I was a 4.0 student and that where I sit has no bearing on how well I do.
in big lecture I sit wherever
if it's <40 people we kind of all sit in the same spot
No, but if the person for example has problems reading from the blackboard, it would be polite to change seats (if you're sitting in the front).
I usually sit in the middle of the front row so that I have perfect visibility of everything on all blackboards. No one in my courses complain if anyone sits in "their" seat, though not a lot of people take courses like commutative algebra and galois theory so there are a lot of seats to choose from.
Damn what kind of people are on your course.
Maybe it's different with smaller groups though, in our little 18man lecture (my smallest) theres at least 4x as many seats as people so it's just wherever, people form little clusters. Rest of my lectures its like 80+ sometimes 120+ because they've mixed a lot of 3rd and 4th year modules and like 4 different courses into one. People tend to sit in "similar" places there. Like I get shouted at by a friend if I don't sit on the back row like normal.
Depends size of class. Big rooms is FFA. small rooms are a complex matter, I'd say by rule of thumbs if u spend 3 times a week in same room people tend to find a regular seat.