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Also if a prof tried to ban laptops I'd happily point out that it's an accessibility device for me
then if they whined about me foruming during class I'd point out my official diagnosis is for add and give them directions to the center for students with disabilities so they can go whine some more.
1) price
2) potential for distraction
3) writing maths at close to handwriting speed is pretty much impossible
3 is really the biggest reason
I guess I could get a tablet but I don't know if I could deal with paying that much for a glorified phone either
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what the fuck
claiming that ADHD makes foruming in class OK is akin to "I have to smoke these cigs, I already have lung cancer"
You seem to have no idea of what you're talking about.
Just like kids that show up and sleep everday and wonder why they didn't get participation points
But he's so different, less talkative, no sense of humor, gets pretty annoyed if you interrupt his train of thought, that I look forward to the weekends just so I can hang out with my friend again.
if you are distracting people, that is a pity, maybe learn to use your laptop for something productive
The back half of the room will not shut the fuck up. I hate showing up late because it means the seats in the front half are taken and I have to sit with the assholes who don't give a fuck.
It isn't a "pity." It's several fucking thousand dollars of my time being fucking intruded upon.
I understand some frustration towards laptops in class, and if you want them banned, that's your perogative, but the fact of the matter is that you have to take some accountability for your own crippling inability to wrest your eyes from someone else's laptop screen and take advantage of what you are paying, as you noted, several fucking thousand dollars for
no. this is wrong.
you wouldn't open up a laptop at a fucking movie but somehow it's okay in lecture hall? fuck off.
Fuck off.
It feels like something that's been accomplished
it's just like oh you're dumb and wasting your time, back to the notes
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If you're going to sit in the back row and surf Facebook where I can't see you then I don't really care but if you're going to sit in the front row where I can't help but notice it does get rather annoying.
I really don't see a laptop in a lecture hall as equally distracting as a bright screen in a dark movie theater, but whatever
I have a Luddite teacher who doesn't allow laptops in my Victorian Lit seminar. Why would I need them there? I have a boring econ teacher whose class is a prerequisite for graduation and believes strongly in curving his tests up to an acceptable standard. Using a laptop to dick around in that class isn't going to prevent anyone who was going to learn that day from learning. I would never use a laptop in a math class or a science class, because that's just counterintuitive.
It's an issue of context, and it's also an issue of differing expectations. Maybe you see the class you are in as an interesting stepping stone to your major, or maybe it's just a way to get a requirement done. If you are doing your best not to disrupt the teaching and learning processes, do whatever you want in class, just don't expect a good participation grade.
I had no idea other peoples' laptop screens were so compelling
tDichotomy: seriously! leave laptops alone!
I just dunno
Must. Look. At. Bright. ScreeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEN.
It would be
disrespectful
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I don't deny it
and they are probably not necessary at school
they are still very convenient
For me I could careless what people are doing as long as you're not making noise in the class or being disruptive with loud tikataking or music or movies with sound.
This chick in my class texts on her phone everyday and I notice because I sit in the back. I could careless about that but anytime she opens her fat fucking mouth I wanna punch her because she literally only opens the class to be a disruptive bitch and waste everyone's time.
The teacher has literally just started ignoring her now and when she was being annoying trying to ask a question the teacher said; Oh I'm just ignoring her like how she ignores me half the time.
Man that was great.