Lecture Posture Murder
Seating is one of most important aspects of the education system. Concentrating in lectures is hard enough without jagged wooden splinters penetrating your spinal fluid.
It's amazing how comfortable chairs can turn a dull maths lecture into a dull maths lecture with comfortable chairs. Here are a few examples of Sydney University lecture seating. Unfortunately I don't go every single lecture hall, maybe those medical lecture theatres just have sloped rows of bloodied spikes. I did my best though. This entry was inspired by flava all the way back here.The Good
Eastern Avenue Auditorium
Prior to high school, your only experience in a pseudo-lecture environment would have been at the cinema. Eastern Avenue Auditorium will be the perfect tweening auditorium in that case. The plush seating is firm yet soft. The desks are broad and slide out in an unorthodox fashion plus the lights make blonde people shine like angels.
This is a poor, replicated photo that doesn't even highlight the chairs. This is purely because I haven't been to that lecture in countless weeks. It may be comfortable but no amount of comfort can keep my attention span in a statistics lecture full of... those squiggly thingies that aren't letters? Numbers! That's right.
The Meh
Wallace Auditorium
Wallace isn't so bad. It's a bit squashed in that you can't slide out the desk without bruising the person behind you and to the right of you. It's slightly above average though which is fortunate because it's definitely a popular theatre. The chairs suffice, the desks are a bit tilted, the lights are there.
The chairs look like vigilant seat-faced armies here. Because it's so bright, you can see every single person and their mother from where you're sitting. This can be a bit of a distraction if the material isn't embracing you.and The Crippling
Carslaw Lecture Theatres
Ugh, my vertebrae discs misalign just thinking about these benches in the Carslaw building. The wood is perfectly contoured and expanded over age to apply just enough pressure to the human spine. It was designed by bitter ancient architects that resent the young and who wanted all students to experience the pains of their own rheumatism.
Ouch, it doesn't help that this is where i have an 8 AM ALGEBRA LECTURE. Throw in some horned fiends and elevator musak and that's my vision of Hell. Possibly worse than this lecture hall is the BOSCH BUILDING. I would have taken a picture but it's so dark in there. I'm almost certain that the benches were made out of burnt wood lacquered with the forehead cells of frustrated students. I pray you never experience such trauma.
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