I used to show up late to the lab (I always stayed late and often had to come in at night for cells or the sequencer so I had an extreme level of apathy towards start times, lol) and I lived 10 minutes away and could park across the street from my building. Showing up HOURS early would absolutely wreck me. Let alone exam days. The horror I feel at leaving the house before 8
Literally bought motorcycle in undergrad to get cheaper and better parking
(I did not even know how to ride one yet). "It'll pay for itself" I said. 
Real. I think all or most of the vet schools are like that because they're all trying to max their class sizes so they shove a million people into a room with spotty internet, power outages, MacGyvered seats, and no parking. It sucks and I've heard these stories from all sorts of vet schools. Instead their solution is to just open more half assed programs with no teaching hospitals as if it's going to make anything better
Oh for sure. We just didn’t have this problem at all last year because all but a handful of our classes were streamed live on zoom. So not only does the removal of distance learning hurt accessibility, it’s exposing infrastructure issues as well. Our poor third years don’t even have their own classroom right now. It’s a mess.
Our classroom was always freezing, so people would bring blankets to class. Once the seating status quo was established, we just left our blankets on our chairs.
I did Christmas lights
My associate dean did this to me in class and I confronted her privately afterwards. I was respectful and tried really hard to communicate effectively but ultimately said “I do not subscribe to the school of embarrassment as a teaching tool and will not participate in it, so how can we move forward?”
Yeah she pulled me out of lab in front of everyone to try to apologize to me about the way she was speaking to me. But ultimately she was like that’s just how I talk. Like there are better ways to correct people about how to drape especially for their first time.
I'm sad to report that keeping items at our seats isn't allowed anymore 🙁 We tried the blanket thing last year and a college-wide email was sent out
It's because the assistant dean was giving a tour one time and didn't like that there was stuff in the rooms
I think maybe because there are other things that happen in the lecture halls
Can confirm this week had been full of full moon behavior and diagnoses
Rae can confirm Thunderdome behavior of first years has nearly broken me. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
oh absolutely, their phone # was recorded 🎉
Ours too. We got a whole lecture first day of orientation that seat saving was not allowed 😅
I would be putting their names on Rabid Rainbow to warn other local clinics 🫠
ooohh this is the first I've heard of this 😀
This is crazy to me lmao at my school everyone kinda assigned their own seats on day 1 and stuck with it… we haven’t had any issues. Granted we do have some empty seats in our lecture hall and our class size is relatively small.
10/10 recommend it
That would drive me nuts. I rotate around sections depending on the vibe. The more I struggle with a topic (embryology) the closer I am to the front. Speaking of embryology, our lecture hall microphone had so many issues for one particular lecture I put my AirPods on in noise cancelling mode so the feedback wouldn’t drive me crazy 😫
We also had one of these mental health things. I think it was well intentioned but they just went about it the complete wrong way. They never address the root of these problems or why they are exacerbated by vet school. Also grading people’s personal experiences is kinda weird.
I sit in the same spot every day, for the whole day. Lectures start at 8, we break for lunch at 12, and we usually end around 4 or 5. If I had to move my stuff around each lecture I would go insane.
Last year the people who went to class in person regularly sat in the same spot for the most part. It wasn't assigned, it's just that weird human behavior of "I've had seating charts my whole education and now I have self-assigned myself this seat". Which is just a fascinating behavior in the first place, but also gimme my damn seat that I mentally assigned myself!
yepppp. i feel in no way is this building my mental resilience. also, i've been to therapy LMAO so it's not like any of this news to me. also, the assignments are kind of limiting/annoying when you have mental health disorders and in general all the information is presented in a very neurotypical way. in my last reflection, i had to more-or-less be like "well due to several anxiety disorders, i will be dealing with this for my entire life" lol we will see how he grades that one!
all through undergrad I had a "unassigned-self-assigned" seat for every class but man. not here. i just have to take what's available bc i do NOT care enough to be in class more than 5 minutes early. i would rather sit in my car for 10 minutes than like wait in the lecture hall.
Yea people are giving me **** this year about sitting in the front row on a particular side of the room. They want to sit there bc they did last year, but my friends are on that side this year and I need front row bc I'm hard of hearing. If I'm there first, I don't really understand why it's such a big deal to sit on the specific side of the room in a specific chair every time. Like, go sit on the other side! The front row is open lol. If they get there before me then I will sit on the other side. It's really not deep and this is coming from someone with anxiety who relies on routine and predictability for comfort lol
I guarantee you could work with DRES about accommodations to have a specific seat reserved for you if you need and it gets to that point. (Also I’d do it to be petty)
Hmm good point. That would give my friends a good laugh I think too hahah
I can't speak for after hours, but we definitely still had people leaving stuff in there during morning labs or lunch lectures last fall.
Also, this is ridiculous. I can see having a preference for like sitting in the front vs the back of the room, but I don't see what the big deal would be about sitting on a specific side in those rooms
This is a great point, @spiane - I have reasons why I need the front of the class (auditory processing issues) and I WILL be petty and get an official accommodation if I have to. It seems to have calmed down a bit which is what I was hoping for….. I don’t like sitting up front but it’s a necessity and I’m not willing to get to class 30 min early every day so I can hear properly. Use those accommodations if you have to, I know they’re annoying but if you truly need it, you deserve the support.
If they keep being difficult maybe talk to your schools accessibility services, having a designated spot up front is a very reasonable accommodation to have and can help in those situations.
Ayyyyy auditory processing gang ✊
