<p>People make this stuff way too difficult.</p>
<p>Get a backpack. It’s not like you’re climbing Mt. Everest here… It’s just school…</p>
<p>if I were a professor (and a braver person than I actually am) I would ban laptops from my class. I even put that in a course-eval this semester, saying that the laptop misuse in a particular lecture was so rampant as to be distracting.</p>
<p>I feel like we’re responsible enough to decide whether to use laptops in class or not… If someone would rather play on Facebook I’d be all for letting them do so. Help out the curve.</p>
<p>Something my advisor told me was “if people in front of you’s laptops bother you, then sit in the front of the class.”</p>
<p>Problem solved.</p>
<p>do you really hang on every word so much that even laptop screens bother you? first of all you really have to learn to handle distraction.</p>
<p>“If someone would rather play on Facebook I’d be all for letting them do so. Help out the curve.”</p>
<p>Please lighten up, people saying stuff like this is a huge part of Cornell gets the rep as being as tough and competitive as it does. A little facebooking never hurt anyone, and I would say that no more than half of what professors say in lecture is actually worth listening to, and most make powerpoints available online anyway. I’ve always found the textbooks much more useful than lecture.</p>
<p>A lot of the big classes here feel like a little party in a way. You’ll see lots of people you know and people chat in little clusters in the lecture hall. This is probably more valuable than the actual lecture: it gives you study buddies for the class, and it also helps you connect with other people in your major and friends in general.
- Lots of people share your opinion, and I think that’s why so many people feel a lack of support and community here. If you just go to lecture and scorn anyone who deviates from your one track focus, you wont build community in your classes. Not to say class is the only place to get connected, but it definitely helps build an academic support system.</p>
<p>it’s not so distracting that I can’t learn anyway…I’ll probably get an A in the course I was thinking of, actually. I don’t think it’s excessive to expect classmates to pay attention though. I don’t have great powers of concentration, and I learn better (and feel better) when I don’t have other words or images floating in the periphery of my senses. I’ve adapted to what others think is appropriate, and I certainly don’t scold others, but I still wish people would behave differently.</p>
<p>“Please lighten up, people saying stuff like this is a huge part of Cornell gets the rep as being as tough and competitive as it does.”</p>
<p>Wrong… It was a joke…</p>
<p>Taking things too seriously is the reason why we have the cutthroat steretype.</p>