Buying textbooks online

nontraditional
Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:44:06 +0000

I wouldn’t expect them to care. (On the other hand, I also wouldn’t expect them to be particularly moved if you ask for a makeup midterm because a computer-related disaster resulted in you not having the book to study. Nor would I expect them to be moved if you accidentally dropped your hardcopy book over the Hoover Dam.)

If you land in one of the relatively rare classes where you’re expected to bring your book every day and refer to it, I would speak to the professor after the first class to explain the situation. Many, many instructors dislike laptops in the classroom in part because they believe that students using them are doing something other than concentrating on the class. Others dislike them because they find them disruptive.