Cafeteria

Cafeteria by Robert James Reese

The Cafeteria is not just a place to get a food, but it is also a place to have social interactions with others. It seems to be that college students spend the most time here, because they don’t have a kitchen or a place to cook.  This is why they spend a good amount of time here. What seem important about going to the cafeteria is that is all starts with an invitation of someone asking you or yourself asking them if they want to go and grab something to eat.  Even though it is fine to go to the cafeteria alone occasionally, people don’t want to do it too often because it can make them seem anti socials. It seems that it is just a place to go and get food but it is where students come together and form their own social groups.

Being in a Cafeteria is a place where social barriers begin. People judge you on not just the people that you are with but where you also decide to sit.  People sitting in the back corners are not seen to be as social as those sitting in the middle. The cafeteria is, designed for the social interaction. It contains isolated back areas where unsociable students can sit to avoid interaction, and larger tables for people who want to be social can sit with a large group of friends. Then there are the people who do not want to be sitting alone because of what others will think of them.  They feel that it okay for it to happen once in awhile but if it keeps happening people with start to think bad of you and that your are antisocial.

Majority of people see the Cafeteria as a place to just eat, but it is a place where people’s social interactions are judge on who they are with. From what I’ve seen  this  is a place where everyone comes together but then it is broken down into social groups from there.