Students are feeling the pressure of budget cuts as they try to squeeze into packed classes with little space and limited seating -- and so are the faculty members.

Junior Gavin Bruce, an American Indian studies major, has seen this firsthand. In his American Indians and U.S. Laws class, he claimed that around 20 people were packed in on the floor of the classroom, trying to add on the first day of class.

"I've never seen that many people trying to add," said the 21-year-old, who has attended classes at SF State since 2007.

Lecturer Brigitte Davila had more than 30 students trying to add into her two sections of Government & Constitutional Ideals.

"It's absolutely the worst I've seen in 15 years here," she said.

With the extra workload teachers have been asked to take on this semester, it's not uncommon to see overly packed classes.

Both Bruce and senior Gabi Beck have classes with more students than seats.

"There are more students than classroom capacity," Beck said.

Teachers have taken different approaches to dealing with the influx of students. In one of Bruce's classes, his teacher had students fill out a form to add the class, then mixed the forms up and picked out six people at random to add the class.

Davila had each student fill out a form explaining why they wanted to be in the class, taking "super seniors," followed by seniors and so on.

Other teachers became strict about attendance to make room for more dedicated students.

Beck, a Broadcast and Electronic Communication Arts major, was dropped from one of his general education required classes two weeks into the semester after showing up 30 minutes late to class. Beck had been stuck at Saint Francis Circle after an M-Metro line crash. His professor, Jose Cuellar, dropped Beck from the class without notification. Cuellar could not be reached for comment.

"I checked my GatorReg to add a class after the furloughs and saw that I wasn't in his class anymore," Beck said.

"It's just shocking. I can make it up next semester but what if I really needed that class?"

SF State's Academic Senate policies make no mention of notification to students who have been dropped from a class. They do, however, encourage teachers to drop students who have missed classes within the drop period.

Next year, the situation is set to get tougher for students and faculty trying to help students graduate.

According to Davila, each department will be fined for taking students over the predetermined class limits.

"It's the opposite of what we've been told. Usually we're encouraged to take as many students as we can," said Davila, who took six extra students for one of her classes. "I think it's very unfair."

To protest, Davila is joining two protest days on Oct. 14 and 15. The first one will be held on campus while the second will be held at city hall to ask gubernatorial candidate and San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom what his platform on higher education is.