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our uni had mandatory chemistry for all engineering degrees, even industrial economics and computer engineering, so naturally a lot of people had to re-take it. the registrations weren’t done processing for weeks, and during that time you had to assume you were in, or you’d be hopelessly behind. that lecture hall was filled to the brim the first few weeks every semester. people were sitting in the aisles, on the stairs, in the window sills, two to a chair… it was insanity. i really hope they fixed that.
Back for me because I have a pretty disgusted, annoyed resting face. If I sit too close I’m focusing too much on keeping a pleasant listening face that I don’t pay enough attention to the material and give myself a tension headache.
Haha! I’m the EXACT same way. I’m glad I’m not alone. I feel for you!
We’re censoring out the letters “wtf” now? Fucking seriously?
language!
What a shit.
I just tried to get to the front, even beeing 20 min late.
I had to update my glasses while in university for each semester.
So I would sit at any of these seats. When friends reserved one seat in the back, I would take it but tell them that next time I have to sit in the front.
In my country students aren’t judging people at such minor interactions.
Again, lemmy: Some piece of shut-your-mouth is downvoting me without a reply.
To this individual: You are hurting this community very much.
Complaining about downvotes, that’s a paddlin
Yeah, because I am able to revert false opinions of mine, but lemmy has a tendency to downvote without teaching me. Opening up about my experiences is punished by downvotes without elaboration.
That sucks so hard.
For conferences, there’s the ones who stand at the very back so they can easily leave if the talk is uninteresting/boring.
Look maybe I just am tired of sitting, did you ever think of that?!
Lol, nah it’s because I was late. Or might leave.
Listen, don’t judge us.
Shhhh, don’t spoil our secrets!
Aye cmon now, i have some idea of what’s going on.
I’m usually just late lol
Yellow = weak bladder
Why is “what” blurred? And how is this science memes?
Probably is “wtf” - there’s been a big shift in censoring “swear words” on the internet recently
It’s mostly because algorithms now push that shit down the rankings. I’ve seen people on tiktok censoring “hell” and “crap” unironically
Jesus fuck
Academia memes?
Sounds more like it.
Is it “what” or “wtf”? Latter makes a lil more sense to blur.
Yeah, but it’s the internet and no one gives a fuck really.
Weiner! Butthole! Poop!
It is fun to say bad words, isn’t it. Makes you look cool, too!
I was told we can’t fucking swear here…
God fucking damnit, I forgot.
@fossilesque Don’t forget those of us in the back row because we slept in and got there late!
Nah the side rows are for when you expect the lecture to be boring or unproductive and you want to leave early.
Had three classes (5 hours) back to back in the same room one semester. I ended up switching seats to break up the monotony. I started at nerd and slowly progressed to the back for sleep.
Yeah, I’m a second-row person all the way; green describes me right. Purple as a backup.
Thank goodness my college only had one of these kinds of rooms, and I was only there for a class about movies.
I wonder why universities classrooms are designed more like movie theatres?
Because more people?
Yes, this is the simple and correct answer. Yikes everyone else, you try seating 300 people in a research 1 university classroom.
You wouldn’t be able to see otherwise
i thiiink it’s to help everyone see & hear better, like in ancient Greek theatres
this is all guesswork but, i’m guessing that since university education historically (and in a lot of places to this day) is more a thing of the rich they actually put some thought into the design of the lecture halls. And for the education of the poors that’s simply made to condition them to work in factories they just put some tables and chairs in a room and called it a day - and since then the design stuck
Your guesswork is doing a bit too much there. Rich schools also have flat classrooms for smaller groups, e.g 30ish.
The reasons for stadium seating is for size, and that’s true for most schools including community colleges (and even vocational schools). Usually it’s used for classes everyone has to take, like a pre-req. High schools aren’t standardized in the same way, so you generally wouldn’t have a class of 80. High schoolers need more one on one anyway, and teachers require less specialized knowledge, so the numbers just work better that way.
yea true, though (and again i’m just speculating and talking out of my ass, do tell me if you find that annoying i can do research i just don’t feel like it atm) wouldn’t first schools have been made just for the working class kids? The rich kids were getting home schooled by best professors and then sent off to universities. The working class kids would be sent to the newly established general schools where they could learn and find new opportunities (and get conditioned to work in factories). I don’t think you’d see many rich kids in schools with “the poors”. And once schools became the norm, and rich kids schools began popping up then the schematic of what a pre-university school looked like was already established
It’s been a while since I learned the history, but if I remecmber right the first schools in the US were religious in nature. But public schooling was generally a huge equalizer, and made the most advances along with workers rights movements, etc.
That said, there’s plenty to be upset about class-wise, just not the class size thing. It’s true that rich families have always done what they could do to get their kids ahead, generally with private school and tutoring. They have a much higher odds of getting into the better colleges, and the more elite schools tend to lead to higher pay after graduation. They’re also doing everything they can to gut public education, which is the whole point of the push for vouchers (which was especially big during the Trump administration).
There’s a thousand more reasons to be pissed off at the rich regarding education, but if I wanted to get into every single one I’d still be in academia (My PhD in Ed was all about that). Actually, now that I think of it, take a look at Learning to Labour by Willis, as I think it reflects your train of thought.
ooo fascinating! thank you for the information :)
There was a time when professors performed burlesque shows to better teach their subject. The puritans got them though. ;-;
I see myself in all of these
Accurate.
