Sorry for late post. I have to pretend I have a life by not updating consistently. Updating consistently obviously demonstrates that I have nothing better to do than to write blog posts and doesn't demonstrate that I am a responsible and well-organized person.
From my short time here at McGill that is actually spent in class -- spent mostly in the impersonal confines of Leacock 132, I have learned much from...what the prof is saying (of course...) and from having the freedom of choosing where to sit.
It's the small things like choosing where to sit in lecture halls that people never tell you about college. And it's the small things about cultures that give them distinct personalities. I think that's why it's so difficult to learn culture from history books and much easier to learn from cultural fiction or from anecdotal history...but that's a little off-track.
Anyway, I've decided to share with y'all what I've learned so far about seating choice:
2. Don't sit behind someone playing a game or watching videos...you will start watching.
3. Do sit next to the attractive, potential future "study" buddy -- and get his (or her) number.
4. Look down to make sure no one left a carton of open chocolate milk beneath the seat.
5. Also check that there is a writing desk. Some of the Leacock 132 seats don't have writing desks just because they were broken and never replaced. And if you're a lefty, like me, get the aisle seat.
6. You have to know how to maximize the comfort of choosing an aisle seat. If you get to class early and choose an aisle seat before the row is filled, you are going to get up five-million times while everyone else fills the row. If you come too late, the aisle seats will be taken. Good luck with your timing. I'm sure it's a function of preference of aisle seats/total number in class, number of minutes it takes to get to seats, etc., etc.
7. Come much earlier for better seat selection (if seat selection is that important to you) if you know there's no class before your class. If there is a class before your class, you'll have to wait outside the room with the other 30-750 students in your class. 30's not so bad. 750 is.
Self-diagnosis: I like to sit in the side-seats of the center rows of the center section for 1) easy exit access and 2) central view of PPT and professor. I seem to select for older students because I've met a disproportionate number of U3 students -- which makes me sad because those are the people I like and they're all graduating. Yes, I admit, most of the ones I talk to are guys because girls are scary and I have lower expectations of guys. Ageist and sexist, eh? (<-- Hah! See what I did there for all you Americans...)
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