{"id":2727,"date":"2015-11-12T09:02:18","date_gmt":"2015-11-12T15:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/ucinfo\/?p=2727"},"modified":"2023-06-29T15:41:08","modified_gmt":"2023-06-29T20:41:08","slug":"where-should-i-sit-in-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/ucinfo\/2015\/11\/12\/where-should-i-sit-in-class\/","title":{"rendered":"Where Should I Sit in Class?!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-2926 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/ucinfo\/files\/2015\/10\/WhereToSitInClass-300x131.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"131\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You walk into your first class and panic. If you sit in front, the professor might call on you, but if you are all the way in back you can&#8217;t see\u00a0the notes.\u00a0Where do you sit? The middle? The front? Well, don&#8217;t worry, by the end of this blog you will feel fully confident in your choice of where to sit.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s break it down to the three options&#8230; the front, middle and back.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s whats good about the front:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You get a more personalized experience with your professor<\/li>\n<li>There will be no issue seeing the screen<\/li>\n<li>Nobody&#8217;s head is in the way during movie time (wait did I say movie? Yea, keep dreaming)<\/li>\n<li>You can hear absolutely everything<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Drawbacks of sitting in front:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Some may have the fear of looking like the nerd or teachers pet, but hey, who cares, as long as you&#8217;re learning, it doesn&#8217;t matter what other people think.<\/li>\n<li>The main reason the front is bad (and couldn&#8217;t get much worse) is the fact that the professor will be more likely to call on you. I can&#8217;t think of anything worse than that. There is that pure moment of fear when you hear your named called. You know what I&#8217;m talking about, right? When you start to sweat and look to your neighbor to ask what the professor asked in the first place. Yea, it&#8217;s bad. In the end though, it will make you more engaged.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Now let&#8217;s move on to the back. Wait, am I skipping a section? Don&#8217;t worry, I like the save my favorite for last.<\/p>\n<p>Whats good about the back:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Your chances of being able to sleep without the professor knowing are a lot better. You&#8217;ll still probably get caught though. I&#8217;ve witnessed kids sleeping in back&#8230; they were kicked out, so I don&#8217;t recommend it.<\/li>\n<li>If you&#8217;re in Hyland, you can look out the window without glaring past the lost faces of fellow students.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There aren&#8217;t many positive reasons to sit in back, yet so many students tend to do so. I bet my list of reasons not to sit in back is much longer. Here it goes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You probably will fall asleep.<\/li>\n<li>If you&#8217;re in a lecture hall sometimes the back can feel like another planet. You are completely disconnected with the rest of the classroom. The professor is 7 miles away from you and you can&#8217;t hear or see a thing. Move up a couple rows and join the rest of the gang.<\/li>\n<li>The back rowers&#8217; are the people your mother wouldn&#8217;t want you hanging out with. They show up late, go to the bathroom 5 times during class and then ditch out early. Don&#8217;t be one of them.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As I promised you, I saved the best for last&#8230; the middle. You can&#8217;t beat it. I can&#8217;t even think of a bad thing about sitting in the middle of the room. So here&#8217;s why the middle is the perfect choice:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It&#8217;s where the popular kids go. Lets face it&#8230; in the middle you are surrounded by SO MANY people. You&#8217;ll make more friends and just simply be cooler.<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s the perfect choice between too close and too far away. You can still easily hear and see, yet you aren&#8217;t awkwardly glaring up at your professor who stands three inches in front of you.<\/li>\n<li>You still may get called on, but I bet it will not be even close to the amount of times it would be if you sat in the front row.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In the end, there really is no wrong place to sit in class (I&#8217;m stealing one of my professor&#8217;s ideas here). He believes there really isn&#8217;t any wrong place to sit, just sit wherever you feel most comfortable. Sit wherever you will learn best!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You walk into your first class and panic. If you sit in front, the professor might call on you, but if you are all the way in back you can&#8217;t see\u00a0the notes.\u00a0Where do you sit? The middle? The front? 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