Where do you sit during class?

[168135]

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This is just for fun.

I don't really know how many people this applies to... I go to a small university... we have one lecture hall (even then, I can always find a seat in front because it's that small and never that full), but majority of my classes have been taught in a classroom.

I always have to sit in the front of the room. Nothing is more annoying than not being able to hear a quiet prof, having to squint to read overheads, or having to look over or around the person sitting in front of you. My friends are always telling me to come sit with them in the middle... I have to refuse... and they're too worried about looking nerdy to join me.

So where do you sit?

 

[david594]

Almost exclusively up front. Makes it harder to not pay attention or goof around online when the professor is only a few feet away.

 

[RockStarKDub]

I am SO easily distracted I have to sit in the front! Otherwise I'm paying attention to anything BUT the professor lol

 

[Truth74]

What about middle front?

I'm not exactly in the front, but a row or two back.
Is that considered middle?

 

[nyanko]

it depends on the room entirely so I picked the last option! In a small room I tend to sit towards the back, but in a huge lecture hall always the front. 😉

 

[hizarlow]

I sit as close as I can to the exit. I am always early, so I am not trying to sneak in. I just like to be able to go when class is over and not have to wade through all the lolligaggers.

 

[TurtleLover]

it depends on the room entirely so I picked the last option! In a small room I tend to sit towards the back, but in a huge lecture hall always the front. 😉

Except in comparative vertebrate anatomy lab....you were right up there in the front row with me, lab partner! 😀

I usually go for the 1st or 2nd row, myself. I get easily distracted otherwise. I remember in one of my huge lecture halls freshman year, I was sitting towards the middle back and people were watching movies on their laptops and it was a total distraction to me! But I was wondering why these people even bother coming to class! Seriously? You're going to watch a movie while someone is trying to teach you? WOW!

 

[bmichs75DVM]

I also go for the first or second row. Just easier to see/listen/pay attention in class.

 

[tealamutt]

choose your seats well the first day of vet school, because this is where you will sit for the next 4 years of your life. Should you dare to 'mix it up' and take someone else's treasured spot, be prepared for passive aggressive stares for the remainder if the lecture. You laugh now, but you shall see!!!

 

[Konfetkette]

I try to sit in the front or like the second row at least. I find that it's easier to pay attention when you do no see people who don't care in front of you doing stuff not related to the class.

Also it makes professors remember you, and that's what we all need for those letters of recommendations 😀

 

[IvyLynx]

towards the back. i don't like having most of the [other students in the] room behind me.

 

[sambone]

First row! I get easily distracted by what other people are doing, wearing, eating - anything! I was in a class with a girl who would eat an sheet of 8x11 paper during the lecture, one tiny piece at a time. This was weirdly fascinating, and totally distracting too. It's so much easier if I don't have anyone to look at.

 

[twelvetigers]

Uhh... fiber?

 

[nyanko]

Except in comparative vertebrate anatomy lab....you were right up there in the front row with me, lab partner! 😀

Oh yeah it also depends on if I know people in the class and where they are sitting. I'm easily peer pressured. 😀

 

[168135]

What about middle front?

I'm not exactly in the front, but a row or two back.
Is that considered middle?

Depends how big the room is. If there are only three rows, it would be the middle... if there were fifty rows, it would be the front 😛

 

[Groominator]

I try to sit within the first four rows. This semester I'm urging myself to stay even closer. Otherwise i tend to sleep in class. Or spend the whole period fighting off sleep.

 

[RockStarKDub]

choose your seats well the first day of vet school, because this is where you will sit for the next 4 years of your life. Should you dare to 'mix it up' and take someone else's treasured spot, be prepared for passive aggressive stares for the remainder if the lecture. You laugh now, but you shall see!!!

Hahaha, so true!

 

[sumstorm]

I had a few (5) lecture classes with large rooms...in those, in the first 3 rows out of a dozen (if I ran a study group, I would concede the front row to get everyone sitting together, but never farther back than row 3.) In small classes at my college, there were, at max, 2 rows. I was always in the front. Over half of our classes didn't have rows....tables were set up in a semi-circle or there weren't tables, or we met at a cafe or field station or some other place where we were on our feet. Or I sat at the perimeter of the room at a station, like everyone else, with the prof in the middle. We were very research focused, and my average class size was 8 students.

 

[jellyfishing]

i sit at the back..and i have no problems with that
see, im the kind of person that can't absorb any info in lectures but can learn the material well by studying it myself 😉

 

[cuitlamiztli]

I tend to sit in the front part of the room unless it's a huge lecture hall--then I pick a seat that's toward the front, but far enough back to where I'm not practically staring at the ceiling to see the lecture materials.

 

[HopefulAg]

In the front two or three rows. But I really don't have a choice. If I sit much further back than that I can't hear a thing.

 

[Poochlover11]

First row! I get easily distracted by what other people are doing, wearing, eating - anything! I was in a class with a girl who would eat an sheet of 8x11 paper during the lecture, one tiny piece at a time. This was weirdly fascinating, and totally distracting too. It's so much easier if I don't have anyone to look at.

Haha! Oh man! That reminds me of middle schools days! In one of my classes there was a guy I was assigned to sit behind-and everyday I watched as he picked his nose, rolled his snot into a ball, and then randomly flicked it off his hand around the room. I was sooooo glad I was sitting behind him.

 

[kd87]

I tend to sit in the front end of the classroom.. Almost never in the very front row, but usually at least one of the first few. This past semester in a larger lecture hall, I started out in the middle, which wasn't good enough, so I moved foward a few more seats and it still just wasn't right, so I wound up in the second row, but toward the side of the room. Perfect place.

 

[IvyLynx]

i sit at the back..and i have no problems with that
see, im the kind of person that can't absorb any info in lectures but can learn the material well by studying it myself 😉

finally someone else that likes the back!

 

[IHeartGoldens]

In the front usually, but either to the left or the right.. I hate sitting smack in the middle of the class room

 

[guppy73]

The front--always the front. I just clear 5' tall, and I hate looking at the backs of people's heads!

 

[DVMorBust]

Front row for 3 reasons:

1. The aforementioned distraction if sitting anywhere else
2. In every class I've sat in the front row for, I've developed friendships with the people around me and had awesome study-groups (and it continues because a lot of us take the next lecture together)
3. Perhaps most important - I'm a bit on the scatterbrained side of things, so frequently forget my glasses. I can function without them, but can't see writing unless I"m close to the front. And god forbid you try to rearrange seats after the first week of class - it's usually easiest to just stake your claim on the first day so no one gets tetchy with you.

 

[Fairyblastt]

Wherever they've decided to put the left-handed desks. And if there's only one, I will make all you righties retreat from my throne!

Though if I'm using the laptop, my primary focus usually shifts to wherever there might be an electrical outlet... then I drag my throne over there.

 

[littlecaitling]

I usually sit in the back. For some reason I get uncomfortable sitting in the front. I don't know, but I really get bothered by the idea of someone looking over my shoulder or something? Just an irrational pet peeve of mine. I go to a smaller school, so it usually doesn't make a difference whether you sit toward the front or the back, but even in the larger halls I'm all about the last row. It works well, since the professors usually know how to speak up and a bunch of the more vocal students tend to sit in the back (in my classes at least), so it feels more like the whole class is involved in any discussions/questions rather than it feeling like the rest of the class watching the professor teach the first few rows.

The search for an outlet supercedes the last row preference however. My poor old laptop battery can't hold a charge! Luckily there's usually an outlet close to the back.

 

[badcats]

Usually in the back for me as well. I guess I like being able to see everything that is goin on in the room. I don't do well with the professor being right in front of me, I feel like they are scrutinizing my note taking, plus I always feel kind of like a suck up if I do. And no, I am not saying everyone who sits up front is doing it for recognition, just so there is no confusion.

 

[DVMorBust]

I don't do well with the professor being right in front of me, I feel like they are scrutinizing my note taking, plus I always feel kind of like a suck up if I do.

I definitely felt like one of 'those students' at first - I switched to the front when I started taking science courses, figuring I'd need all the help I could get. But I was convinced after the first test in the first class - I needed to study a *lot* less to be prepared!

The only reason I can see for the decision being detrimental was the gunner pre-med stalker I picked up this past semester...D: He was in a few of my classes. And it got a bit disturbing.

 

[BrumleyVet]

Larger rooms - definately 2nd or 1st. One of my classes is in a small lecture room with the chairs on risers and I sit in the back so I don't have to look up at the board.

I have always used the excuse that I'm "old" and can't see/hear so have to sit up front, but now that I don't have to make up an excuse (after seeing how many other pre-vet"ers" sit up front)!