shift your feet

Three of the four classes I have taken or am taking this semester have been in rooms laid out the same way. As a result, in all three classes I have chosen the exact same seat. I noticed a lot of other people do precisely the same thing.

I am not sure if it is a subconscious preference, but when I enter a mostly empty classroom I tend to sit in the middle rows and a little to the left of the speaker from the speaker's perspective. I am sure this says something about my mental competence or emotional stability that I am unaware of.

Once I have chosen a chair in the first class period, I by far prefer to keep that chair in future class periods. In my fourth class the room was shaped differently and was proportionally smaller. Something that happened a lot more there was that one person would sit in a different place than he or she had in the previous week causing another person to have to find a new seat and so on. This created a domino effect that shifted the class around the room weekly. I am sure my frustration at having to find a new place to sit every week says something about my mental competence or emotional stability that I am unaware of.

What frustrates me the most about changing my seating location is that I am concerned I will be taking someone else's seat. A lot of people pick their seats because it is near someone they are friends with. I don't want to accidentally waltz into someone else's happy place. I know that says something about my mental competence and emotional stability that I am aware of. It says I am an obsessive fiend.