Ok, so I know we are supposed to be talking about how people interact within different environments like a dorm room, cafeteria, etc so I think it would be appropriate to talk about my lab today. As I've mentioned before, I have chem lab on wednesdays. It's been going pretty well actually... until today. When we first arrived, everyone seemed a little anxious to get started because we had all heard horror stories about this lab. The earlier you start, the earlier you finish so everyone was kind of rushing, trying to set everything up. No one was really casually talking like we normally do; everyone was pretty focused. About half way through the lab (about the two hour mark), you could see people get frustrated one by one. Students were no longer standing up straight but were leaning over their computers, looking like they got hit by a bus. The TA was being called over more and more for assistance and she was starting to get a little tired herself. At the 3.5 hour mark, the remaining people were obviously irritated (including myself). Some lucky students had managed to finish the torturous lab and all of the remaining students were extremely jealous of this fact. Lab partners were starting to snap at one another and calculator buttons were definitely being pushed much harder because of frustration. When the four hour mark finally came around, the TA told the remaining students to go home. She had another class to go to and she couldn't stay with us to finish the lab. There were definitely mixed emotions over this: there was some defeat and discouragement, maybe some dread over having to finish the calculations over the weekend. But mostly there was relief because once we were out of that door, we were free of lab for a week...