Omar Rulida Abdul-Rahman

Professor Smith

English 1101

10/10/16

Spatial Ethnography Final

Usually in the College of Education all the seats in the room full with individuals as expected in the somewhat dimly lit room. Even though all of the individuals couldn’t be any more different in a number of ways, they were all doing one of three things. Reading something from a book/laptop/phone, talking, or just resting. The College of Education was quiet that day, like my interviewee was stating that she liked about the “COE”. The people still sprawled across the couch made it hard to accommodate other visitors. This was a problem my interviewee mentioned; she wanted the room to be a little bit bigger. After around five minutes though a tall pale chalky man in a brown suit with a white shirt, and a brown diamond shape patterned tie left one of the four turquoise chair that were placed in a square shape around a small square table. The chairs were placed in a way that if you sit straight you can see the other three people sitting in their chairs. Something about today was strange though. Usually the people sitting in the four chairs in a square formation are usually talking to each other, or at least having a light conversation. This time though the people in the four adjacent sides were enamored on whatever they were looking at be it a phone book or a phone. On one side was a mocha colored lady wearing a black sundress. On the opposite side was a man the color of white sand with a black button down, blue jeans, and brown suede shoes on. The girl adjacent to them though on the mocha female’s right, and the sandy man’s left had on white skin tight jeans, a navy blue Tommy Hilfiger shirt, and white shoes on.

Over on the couch though there were considerably more people there than there where in the four chairs, but they were stirring way less than the people in the four chairs. Two out of the six people there had their eyes closed, and were breathing a little too heavy to be conscious. This is reminding me of what my interviewee said about the College of Education being a great place to rest or work. The other three were just sitting around on their electronic devices. One of them a girl with black hair, a gray shirt was trying their best to stay awake, but her eyelids were drifting up and down. After a few more moments of that she just got up, and then walked away.

At around that time though, at about 1:30, with only around fifteen minutes’ left until the observation would be over everyone was rushing to pick up their things, and heading out the door in a wave, well everyone except the people in the cubicles. All three of the glass cubicles had occupants. One was a young lady with shimmery, sparkly, wheat blonde hair. The other man was a man who was about 5’6, wearing an olive green shirt, and weighed around 220lbs. The last cubicle held a young man, and a young lady. The two people were both brunettes. The lady had long hair with a black hoodie, whilst the man was sporting a black leather jacket. They were both sharing a laptop watching either a video or a movie. The people in the glass cubicles who were still fast paying attention to their business. One of them though was paying attention to the information board. The information board is just a flat screen which just shows upcoming events with a royal blue background. It is encased in a plexi-glass box on the wall, with four metallic bolts on the corners. A lady with long black hair, skinny jeans, long black boots, and a black t-shirt was sitting at one of the table on the other side of the room gazing out of the window facing her. Outside was the downtown Atlanta scenery, and cars hurriedly passing by. After a couple of seconds, she snapped out of her daze, and went back to her book.

During the process of sitting, and observing, I interviewed a female student named Tyra. Tyra is a tanish-bronze woman around 5’4, with her brown hair cut into a short bob.  Tyra was explaining to me that she liked the College of Education. The College of Education in her opinion is a nice quiet place to work, and it’s a place where she can see, and meet up with her friends between classes. She had no issues with the place other than the fact that the College of Education isn’t a little bit bigger.