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Saturday, March 19, 2005

Why do last benches get filled up first?

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Why is it that in classes, last benches get filled up first? It's not true only in certain schools or colleges or in certain countries. As Prof. Vaidyanathan was saying, across the world, from Wharton and Kellogg to IIMB and IIML, the scenario is the same.

And he had a nice explanation for it.

In cinema halls the last benches are craved for....in a cinema you don't identify yourself fully with what goes on on the screen; there is a certain distance between the reel and real and though sometimes you might be carried away, more often than not you're aware of it.
That's true of learning in these classes, you sit in the last benches beacuse, though once in a while you might get swayed, more often than not you know the difference between the 'reel' classes and 'real' life.

In a theatre, you always want to take up the first few rows. Traditionally, people have always identified with real people and their dramas and thus feel the connect, hence this desire to occupy the first few rows.

Was thinking about this....I think it is true...the disconnect between the reel and real keeps getting starker day after day and thus the fight for the last bench keeps getting more intense with every passing day.

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