Everyone knows that you choose where you sit in lecture depending on how prepared you are and also how tired you are.
Nearest to exit people: The people who sneak into class about half way in and usually slump back into their chairs with barely any study materials.
Back row people: Usually those who did not do the reading and do not want to be called upon. (Also tend to fall asleep and use laptop for everything but the lecture)
Against the wall people: Neutral people who don't really speak up but at the same time don't slack off. (Sometimes the undercover geniuses of the class who ruin the curve for everyone).
Mid-center people: Ready and alert to take notes. Occasional volunteering and question asking if they desire.
Second-row sleepers: Those who really did have good intentions to pay attention but eventually fall asleep somehow.
Front-row people: The teacher's pet who asks obvious questions for "more clarity" just to show they were listening or even tries to contradict the teacher referring to the reading that no one else did.
Which person are you?
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I designed one of these last semester because I kept observing where people were sitting and how they would act in class. I'm usually in the middle. If I really don't like the class then i'll sit in the middle but in the second to last row.
It depends on the class. In my music history class I'm a back row person. I just do not pay any attention. However, I have a B in that class which I think is fairly solid. In every other class I'm either in the front of second row, but this is considering the fact that my largest class has 21 people, and many of my classes have about 10.
I sit where there's a seat.
i'm usually mid-center to second-row, though the occasional front-rower. i don't have the best eye sight, so it helps to sit in front sometimes.
during undergrad, i'd sit in the back against a wall. when i wasn't asleep, i ruined the grading curve (and have been told this by multiple professors - not just me being cocky. lol)
now that i'm in grad school, the classes are barely above 15 people, so we all sit in the frontish :P
i guess im too cool for school then lol. just cant be bothered to give attention.
This is not true at all for me. I always sat in the back unless it was a lecture hall. I sat in the back and/or near an exit and I still got decent grades, I was usually interested in the class (or I would not have come accept to turn in assignments/take the tests). Maybe it is true for other people.
Now that I am teaching, this is only true for my non-majors class. In my majors class, my best students sit in the back row by the wall.
As a grad student, I sit all over the place. If my professor is boring, the back is best so I can go get some water and return. If he is good, then somewhere in the middle near the aisle is best, so we can have a little interaction.
Front or second row. I'd be a relative middle near the wall..ish but I have a hard time seeing the dry erase board so I gotta sit up close. I think seat position as per personality does play a role but so does ability to hear/see and how many seats there available.
I sit in the front row, so I can sorta see the board if I forget my glasses.
Meh. With my phobia of crowds/people I have very specific requirements for where I can sit in a lecture. I have to take an aisle seat so there aren't people sitting on either side of me, and I have to gauge which location is least likely to lure people to sit behind me (I don't like sitting in the back because I actually want to hear the lecture). Sometimes close to the door is good because I get out faster, but sometimes farther from the door is also good because it takes longer to leave and I can wait till most of the class is already gone.
My Film class is in an auditorium with sectioned seating, which is fantastic -- there's a front half and a back half separated by an aisle several feet wide, and each is divided into three sections with aisles in between. I can have an aisle seat in the back row of the front section and be able to hear the lecture and see the movies just fine :)
I sit next to the wall. Not because I'm an undercover genius or whatever, but because social situations make me unbelievably nervous. I feel like the wall offers me more stability and protection.
I'm usually in the front row or the middle, but I'd never contradict a teacher or ask pointless questions just to kiss ass. I hate people who do that.
I sit in the front because I'm blind as a bat.
I sit as close to the front as I can while needing an outlet. Some classes I can only sit halfway down the side or in the back because of it :'(
Or front row means you were running late to the first day of class and got stuck there because every other seat was already taken.
i sit at the back, against the wall near the door LOL
oh how i hate school. most miserable years of my life = =Front because I learn better there. I also like to participate in class. I dunno, guess I like learning.
Wow, the against the wall thing is very close to how I am :) I tend to sit in the middle rows, mid center... if I'm in a lecture hall.
I have to sit front row middle or else I get distracted...sometimes I'll choose second row middle if the front row is way too close to the teacher lol
Haha! I usually sit near the front (but not front front), by the edge.
Next to the wall...so I don't have to be surrounded by people on both sides. Always the right wall too.
And...funny enough I do pretty well. :x Not a genius or anything though.
This is definitely hilarious but completely inaccurate for me.
I sit in the front row so that I will pay attention and not be tempted to sleep, text, get on facebook, or otherwise distract myself from the lessons.
lol this is seriously so true.
I always sat in the front row, because I read that it makes professors think you're interested. I didn't like it at all, but I made myself do it. I got straight-A's and graduated summa cum laude with a 4.0 average, so I'm not going to knock my strategy, and I'd recommend it. It wasn't comfortable for me, but it was effective because it meant I had to pay attention and that professors noticed who I was. It's a simple way to signal to an instructor that you care, and it's not something you have to work for, so I'd say it's 100% worth it.