Seriously, what are you so diligently recording in your notes? I swear, from the cacophony emanating from your keyboard, I think you must be recording every single word that comes out of the professor’s mouth. Oh, come on now. That student just pulled that out of their butt, and the professor is even hemming and hawing, with a “well… I’m not sure that is what the court was getting at…” and there you are tippity-typing away. Is that exchange really going to help you on the exam? Or are you just recording every word so you can digest it later? That doesn’t seem like a good way to take notes to me, because you seem to be lost in your keyboard and missing the discussion. I could be wrong about that, but when the professor called on you, he had to repeat his question. Not because you didn’t hear it… in one ear and out the fingertips. But you certainly weren’t listening. Oh well, you’ll probably smoke me on exams anyway.
What is with all the typing?
August 31, 2004 by
Or… if there’s wireless access in the lecture hall, the diligent “note-takers” may really be catching up on email instead!
Well, when I’m typing quickly in class, like I am right now, it means that I’ve found a weblog entry worth responding to…
…blah…blah…reasonable person…reasonable blind person…similar situations…
Well, should have prefaced that with the fact that I could see the screen of the budding transcriptionist…
I know people do other things in class… right now, the girl next to me is playing solitare, and I am blogging. All while we discuss the elements for a cause of action for battery… 🙂
Last year I sat next to a woman who took verbatim notes. I can’t imagine wading through all the crap to extract the important stuff, nor can I imagine keeping up.