Awesome.

I don’t recall people bringing laptops to class in college, but by grad school, the classrooms looked like this (only they were all Dells). If I were a professor, I would forbid open computers in my class and disable the wifi signal.

This is why kids graduating from college these days come out with such huge loans. extravagant purchases on apple hardware when an acer (or whatever) would do just as well for writing their meaningless European history term papers.

The reason we all had Dells in grad school is that the school sold them to us at a nice discount, loaded them with all the school-specific stuff we needed, and provided free IT support and warranty work on them. If you brought your own computer, you didn’t get IT support at all. Given the overwhelming prevalence of Apples in this photo, I’m guessing Mizzou has the same sort of program with Apple products.

@Sparks
this is a HUGE pet peeve of mine. not once as a TA did i see kids with lap tops taking notes. they were on fb myspace etc.. because most lectures are videotaped now, kids think its okay to not pay attention and watch it at their leisure. then they bitch they have too much work to do. if they just paid attention the first time….

@evil
this was a very awesome photo. i like that it was an acer and not some alienware computer.

Mine too. I think maybe 1MB out of every GB of data flowing through our classrooms had anything to do with whatever the professor was saying, and that number might be generous. I realized pretty early on that I couldn’t really pay attention to class with a wifi-connected laptop open in front of me, so I stopped bringing it (except in my one required marketing class, where I contend that the Onion articles I read in class were more important than the lectures anyway).