Short answer: no. You spend hours a week near the same people. Attention and attraction are what humans do in that situation. Having the feeling is not strange, and it is not (on its own) a problem.
What actually makes it weird
Not the crush. The conduct. It turns uncomfortable for everyone when a feeling is treated as an entitlement:
- When "no" is heard as "not yet".
- When attention continues after the person has clearly pulled back.
- When a private feeling becomes public pressure — a scene, a campaign, a group of friends enlisted to help.
- When proximity is used as closeness. Sharing a classroom is not consent to anything.
The line to hold
You are free to feel whatever you feel. You are responsible for how it shows up around another person's choices. A crush becomes a problem the moment it stops being about your feelings and starts being about their compliance.
Keep it low-stakes
Most awkward classmate situations are created by escalating a private thing into a public one. Keeping the early stage quiet is self-protection as much as respect: few crushes need an audience, and a quiet path to a yes (or a clean no) is worth far more than a dramatic reveal that goes badly.
Find out if it’s mutual.
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