Assigned Seats

Something I find very funny when I used my sociological imagination this semester was that in all my classes everyone seems to have an assigned seat after the first day of class even though in every class there weren't any assigned seats.  After realizing this I thought back over the three years I’ve gone to school here and it’s been the same in every class every semester. But the part that I found funny was when my teacher last year told the class that we had to find a different seat and we weren’t aloud to be sitting next to anyone we were before. Every one in the class was kind of up set about it because the seat they were in was where they felt comfortable in class. But what I learned from this is that by giving our selves an “assigned seat” doesn’t allow us to get out of our comfort zone and meet someone we may not have talked to any where else. In the class that my teacher moved us half way through the semester it has been the only class that I have had that has had good in depth conversations because we all knew each other and felt comfortable anywhere in the class.