Journalism freshman Jason Kandel is no stranger to this feeling. He was headed to his math class when he made the common mistake-- and was singled out by the professor.

“I accidentally missed the big lecture room and walked into the one next to it by accident,” Kandel said. “It was very awkward, and the professor said, ‘I think you’re in the wrong place.'"

Kandel said that the experience of having to explain to the classroom that he just walked into the wrong room was not a fun one. To prevent this from happening again, he said he will make sure to check his schedule more closely next time.

Kandel is certainly not alone in making this mistake, however. Psychology senior Jessie Skaff walked into the wrong classroom at 8 a.m. her freshman year while trying to find her psychology class on the brain and its behaviors.

“I was really confident walking in, I was like, ‘Yeah I’ve got this down’ and then I realized, ‘Oh they already started’,” Skaff said. “I thought, ‘This is something completely different from psych or anything that I am familiar with at all.' I finally walked around and walked into my right classroom a lot later than I should have.”

Skaff said despite the fact that she and her roommate had gone around campus to find where all their classes were, a combination of nerves and the early start-time caused her to still miss the right room. She thinks that it’s a good idea for students to take the time to find buildings and classrooms prior to class on their own, but offered the idea that RAs could help students find them as well.

Psychology freshman Katie Scamehorn said that MSU could provide a few more resources for students who are having trouble finding their classes. She said that she knew where her building, Erikson Hall, was but she miswrote the room number in her calendar. When she asked another person for help, they were unable to help her, as they were a new student themself.

“I wish (MSU) had, on Google Maps, a classroom number thing that I can enter in somehow,” Scamehorn said.

Scamehorn also said that it would be helpful if MSU had maps of each building with labeled classroom numbers on the official MSU app. Despite this, she said going into the wrong classroom and getting lost is something that happens to everyone.

Skaff also agrees that students shouldn’t feel bad for this-- even though it is awkward to receive stares and be addressed by the professor, it’s not as embarrassing as it may seem.

“I think it’s one of those things where there’s always going to be some bumps. It’s always going to be awkward at times, but you’ve just got to brush it off,” Skaff said. “It’s not as embarrassing as you think it is. Everybody may be looking at you, but that’s just because it’s a distraction, it’s going to catch your attention; it’s not because you’re doing something that nobody else has already done. You’ve got to learn to not take those things personally. It becomes funny after a while. It may not be funny right then, but it will be funny when you look back on it.”