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Posted: Aug 27 2008 10:04 pm

When I was in the school of engineering in Miami, every classroom had computers for every student. The sound of us all typing on messenger to each other completely drowned out the teacher.

Posted: Aug 28 2008 02:56 am

My school actually issued laptops to every student. I used it mostly for kicks in the classrooms I had room to bring it out, but also took notes with it during Critical Thinking.

Posted: Aug 28 2008 03:41 am

Wow, men were watching porn in italics, I jerk off at my desk daily in class.

Posted: Aug 28 2008 04:28 am

Does anybody even have to take notes nowadays? Almost all of my professors hold their lectures with detailed slides that you can download as PDFs. If anything you would write the notes on the printed out slides, not your laptop.

Though to be fair, I see just as many people do legitimate tasks with their laptops during lecture as I see people playing WoW. It's really helpful if you can try something the professor just explained on a laptop yourself. But that's probably limited to computer science.

Posted: Aug 28 2008 09:29 am

Tyop wrote:

Does anybody even have to take notes nowadays? Almost all of my professors hold their lectures with detailed slides that you can download as PDFs. If anything you would write the notes on the printed out slides, not your laptop.

All of my professors have shown their slides on their websites except for my first political science professor. You HAD to copy off of his slides because he wouldn't show them any other time. But he was a grumpy old fart who hated his job because he didn't enjoy teaching freshmen since he thinks they're all immature and don't know how to behave themselves. Yeah, he sucked. I passed the class with B though, so whatever.

Posted: Aug 28 2008 02:37 pm

I was too poor in college no laptop for me, hell I didn't even have half the required books. Sad

Docinsano's Channel 63 · Posted: Aug 28 2008 02:39 pm

I passed a class once without even taking the books out of their shrinkwrap. I shoulda returned them, but was to lazy to do so.

Posted: Aug 28 2008 02:55 pm

After like a year or two of college, I stopped buying books at the start of the semester. I'd wait until about 2 weeks into the class, because by that time I would have found out if I would ever need it or not. Most classes didn't, so instead of paying $400-600 a semester for books, it came down to $0-$300 a semester (yes, there were a few semesters where I didn't need a single book)

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Shut up, Dorn wrote:

Yeah, when i was in marching band, they had a guy with the laptop who did it in front of women. It's really lame to do that in front of people, the whole point of porn is to watch it randomly when you are sitting by yourself in your room ready to kill millions of your potential children.

I would have yelled at them for obviously lacking any moral standards and then kicked them out of the class either period or for the class and then no longer allowed laptops anymore.

I am going to be a ruthless teacher.

How the hell does someone use a laptop in marching band class?

Docinsano's Channel 63 · Posted: Aug 28 2008 10:32 pm

I was wondering the same thing. Is there some kind of laptop/horn attachment?

Posted: Aug 28 2008 10:32 pm

JRA wrote:

Shut up, Dorn wrote:

Yeah, when i was in marching band, they had a guy with the laptop who did it in front of women. It's really lame to do that in front of people, the whole point of porn is to watch it randomly when you are sitting by yourself in your room ready to kill millions of your potential children.

I would have yelled at them for obviously lacking any moral standards and then kicked them out of the class either period or for the class and then no longer allowed laptops anymore.

I am going to be a ruthless teacher.

How the hell does someone use a laptop in marching band class?

I searched in vain for an image of someone playing a laptop in a marching band but dound none. Sad

Joined: Aug 20 2008 Posts: 94

he probaly used it when people were putting away instruments

Posted: Sep 01 2008 07:58 am

Dr. Jeebus wrote:

After like a year or two of college, I stopped buying books at the start of the semester. I'd wait until about 2 weeks into the class, because by that time I would have found out if I would ever need it or not. Most classes didn't, so instead of paying $400-600 a semester for books, it came down to $0-$300 a semester (yes, there were a few semesters where I didn't need a single book)

Try this as a history major. Works awesome.

Joined: Feb 16 2008 Posts: 832

my whole highschool was on PC. every student was assigned a seat and each seat had a PC at it. we had all kinds of games brought it in it was rad.

Posted: Sep 01 2008 07:49 pm

My elementary school had a room full of apple IIs, we had a whole class on each day that consisted of playing Oregon Trail, build a monster, and some math game that had little mech things in it. Pretty sweet back then.

Posted: Sep 02 2008 05:39 am

Blackout wrote:

My elementary school had a room full of apple IIs, we had a whole class on each day that consisted of playing Oregon Trail, build a monster, and some math game that had little mech things in it. Pretty sweet back then.

Ahhh... Number Cruncher. Is there any number you can't crunch. And that one game with the dog where you solve math problems, eat dog treats, and shoot lasers. That was just as good.

Posted: Sep 02 2008 06:37 pm

you mean number munchers

Posted: Sep 02 2008 06:42 pm

Crap.

I do.

Posted: Sep 02 2008 10:45 pm

I got about a third of the way through the post before I guessed the answer. I have a sick fuck of a friend who watches porn on his Zune and his cell phone in public. I honestly can't see the appeal.

And as for the notes on a laptop thing, I've used mine to take notes in high school. We're on an alternating block schedule, so one of my days is all engineering classes on computers, and the other is taking notes until my hand hurts like hell. Sometimes using a keyboard feels much better than using a pencil.

Posted: Sep 03 2008 06:25 pm

thats what she said

Joined: Aug 20 2008 Posts: 94

isnt this whole thread supposed to be about aika

Posted: Sep 10 2008 02:31 pm

Isn't this thread supposed to be about your mom lolz?

Posted: Sep 10 2008 07:40 pm

I thought this thread was about watching porn in class.

Posted: Sep 10 2008 09:50 pm

In Calc today, I had to fight the incredible urge to stand up and yell "You're an asymptote!" like a complete moron.

I waited until we had a little 15 minute break and went outside and said it several times until I was satisfied.

Joined: Aug 20 2008 Posts: 94

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