My friend Hannah and I each have 2.5 hour long seminar classes with professors who brought snack the first day of class. Both of our professors expressed a desire that the class bring snacks in future weeks to provide a welcome break in the middle of class. Both of our professors suggested alternating who brings the snacks and setting up a schedule to decide who's week it is. In both of our classes the responsibility is left wholly to the students to organize. However, only one of the classes has had snack more than one other time. Unfortunately, that class is not mine.
The difference? My professor left it up to individuals - each person would be responsible for one day, which we were left to figure out. Hannah's professor put them in teams, where each team would be responsible for multiple days. I signed myself up for the second day and brought snacks, but unfortunately NO ONE has brought snacks since. However, I recently learned from Hannah that her class takes snack time very seriously and their team would never dream of missing their pre-assigned day.
Our situations are different for two reasons: 1. Larger groups in Hannah's class 2. Defined days for each group in Hannah's class. This is analogous to the committee structure where each particular issue is assigned to a particular group. The added structure allows for greater passage. My class is most similar to pure logrolling, where each person in the class depends on the others to fulfill their promises in the future. In my case, logrolling did not lead to a desirable equilibrium, but Hannah's committee structure did.
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