When the doors of Aderhold’s classroom 212 open, many occupants walk in with slow movements. Most of them head straight for the top of the stairs that lead to the back of the room. Because many occupants sit in the back two rows of the classroom, the other occupants, the ones who are late to class, will be forced to sit in the front row due to the unavailability number of seats. The classroom is shaped like an amphitheater, with a staircase dividing the room in the middle. There are five rows across the room, with each row on a different elevation. There are two chestnut brown wooden tables on each row, having one table on one side of the staircase and one on the other side, giving a total of 10 tables inside the classroom. Each table is approximately 25 feet long with 14 built- in chairs that swivel out for the occupants to sit in. The top of the tables has a glossy finish with a tree trunk design. The tables’ legs are criss cross into an ‘x’ and are placed approximately every five feet of the table. The teacher’s desk, which positions near the front of the room at the bottom of the staircase, has a black table with an attached desktop computer and projector at the center of the desk. A white board with gray borders is attached to the wall behind her approximately 20 feet wide and 10 feet long. The right side of the room is lit brighter than the other side of the room. There are two exit door on each side of the classroom but the exit door on the right is locked while the left exit door is propped open with the trashcan.

As the clock strikes 1:00pm, the teacher slowly calls out roll, and the chatter among students begin to build. The noise begins to drown out the teacher’s timid voice until she yells everyone to be quiet. When the Professor begins the reading discussion, she walks around the room while interacting with other students by throwing examples from the required reading or asking questions about moral ethics.

Most of the occupants are all students with the exception of the professor. The students all come to Aderhold Room 212 so Professor Kubala can teach Youth Cultures to them every Monday from 1:00 to 2:40pm. Professor Kubala is approximately 5 feet 2 inches, dirty blond-hair lady wearing a mint green blouse with a gray pants suit. She often stays near or behind the teacher desk when talking, and occasionally looks down at her spiral notebook. While she is teaching, she calls on students to give their opinion on the discussion topic. During class, some students have their laptops out on the desk with different webpages on. Some students are doing homework from other classes, some take notes on their laptop, and some goes on Facebook or Reddit. The rest of the students who do not have their laptops out, have their notebooks out on the desk and are taking notes over the discussion or are secretly going on their phones.

The occupants in the classroom interact with each other during the discussion: the institutional involvement of gender roles. Most discussions are respectful as the occupants raise their hands and wait on to speak, but there are some aggressive arguments that ends with students yelling at each other. Miranda Anderson is one of the students in the classroom. She has straight, auburn hair with rectangle glasses that frame her face. She sits in the front row and often raises her hand to contribute to the class discussion. Anderson loves the Youth Cultures class, specifically because of the discussion. She loves hearing what her fellow students have to say about the topic, in this case, the social norms of pressuring gender roles. The occupants also interact with the objects within the room, such as the table and the chair. The students must sit on the chairs and use the tables in order to take good notes about the discussion that will help them study for the test later on. At the end of the class period, many of the occupants scramble down the stairs to rush out of the class or stay behind to talk to the Professor.