Perhaps the most juvenile ritual in law school is the day each semester in each class during which the professor passes around a seating chart. Students show up early, bum-rush the previous class and scramble (as nonchalantly as possible) to sit with friends not too close and not too far from the front of the room.
As children and adolescents, this is expected. We want to pass notes to friends and avoid sitting next to the kid who spends the whole class playing with his boogers. IM means we can pass notes to people on the other side of the world and the modern law student has fairly decent personal hygiene habits outside of finals period.
Some people say they don't want to sit somewhere they can't see or hear. Let's get real here: our classes are not held at the old Tiger Stadium. The sightlines are fine. There is only one classroom I can think of where hearing can be difficult from the back, but I haven't had a class there since 1L year and the scramble still continues. I can think of one professor who is hard to hear, but the seat scramble doesn't stop with her classes.
They say law school is like middle school. Believe it.
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