The seat a student decides to sit in during class has a huge impact on his grade. If a student wishes to pay close attention to the professor and the lecture he should try to sit as close to the front as possible. Why is this so? Imagine sitting behind all these people with their laptops open during class:
People have tendencies to observe their surroundings. If someone in front is doing something distracting on their computer people behind that person will get distracted as well. The further back a student decides to sit, the more opportunities of distractions will be given to the student. It is also a lot more difficult to hear the teacher if one sits in the backmost row, due to all the different noises other students make in front will cause static. The further back a student decides to sit also allows the student to talk to other students and do things that would be disrespectful to the lecture due to the professor has less control over students in the back and can’t keep a good watch over them.
Students who sit in the front row don’t have nearly as much distractions as the students in the back. The students in the front row also are able to hear the professor a lot more. Eye contact is also very important in paying attention, and the professor tends to keep eye contact with the students he can see clearly. Students who sit in the front row tend to be more attentive due to the professor is right there, and it’s as if the class was designed just for them. Suppose a student is in a huge class of roughly 200 students. If the student sits in the back most rows, the size of the class would seem like 200 to him due to he can see 200 students. If the student sits in the front rows, the class size would seem very small due to the student cannot see all 200 students.
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