I just realized how spoiled my generation is....

[Tin]

 I'm cramming for a Psych exam tomorrow (4 chapters) and my professor puts all the notes online in the form of a Powerpoint. Well all two-hundred or so of his other students must all be on at the same time, and I can't get on it. So now I have to acctually open my book, take notes, and read.

[Hookemdown.]

You could come up with a better excuse than that. :

[daviscw]

I'm cramming for a Psych exam tomorrow (4 chapters) and my professor puts all the notes online in the form of a Powerpoint. Well all two-hundred or so of his other students must all be on at the same time, and I can't get on it. So now I have to acctually open my book, take notes, and read.

I call it privileged.   I haven't had a college exam without a study guide yet. Why WOULD you go to class???

[fishinfiend]

study guide  ;D

[Sam]

Tin,

This is why we have 2 and 3 AM. To go on line when others are sleeping.  ;D

My wife and I were talking yesterday on the subject of how our parents' generation was so different than our son's generation and what our boy has and has had that our parents never enjoyed.

Not the computer, but cable and satellite TV, movies, money to spend, parents buying them a car or four-wheeler, parents paying for car insurance, clothes, soccer leagues and equipment, little league and football leagues and equipment, better educations, parents paying for college and fraternities and money to date and gas for the car plus servicing the car, fishing and hunting stuff etc.

Even health insurance until they graduate from high school or college.

When I was at LSU we were on our own for tests.  We took notes and if we were lucky, we could find old tests in the library to use as study guides.

Now, with the internet you can get so much more information on different subjects.

I send my best for you to nail that test and get an "A" in the course.

Then, do some fishing to relax.  ;D

[FD.]

Tin, have you ever even seen an encyclopedia?

[Tin]

Tin, have you ever even seen an encyclopedia?

Yup, next to 5 pound bass is a picture of you with your "ten" pounder. ;D

[FD.]

I was just curious if they even had them around anymore. I wasn't being an @$$.

[Hookemdown.]

I was just curious if they even had them around anymore. I wasn't being an @$$.

Seriously...

I haven't used an encyclopedia in over five years.  I've used online versions, but not hard copies.

[daviscw]

I was just curious if they even had them around anymore. I wasn't being an @$$.

Seriously...

I haven't used an encyclopedia in over five years. I've used online versions, but not hard copies.

This is true, along with the dictionary, thesaurus, etc. Honestly, I couldn't do long division if I tried. We rarely wrote problems all the way through in my college math class. We pretty much spent the whole semester learning how to use calculators.

[Hookemdown.]

I can actually do math better without the calculator.  I don't understand it by pressing buttons.

While we're on this subject, Sparknotes is awesome. ;D

[daviscw]

That works in High School.  

[Hookemdown.]

That works in High School.

I'm going to milk it as long as I can.  I like to read, but I hate some literature.  

My least favorite poet is Poe, but he wrote my favorite poem, "The Raven".  Go figure.

[fish-fighting-illini]

I'm going to milk it as long as I can. I like to read, but I hate some literature.

My least favorite poet is Poe, but he wrote my favorite poem, "The Raven". Go figure.

I'm thinking " The itsy bitsy spider" ranks right up there with you?

[Gone_Phishin]

What's going to happen if everything crashes one day? People have become beyond dependent on technology. For example, my younger brother breaks his cell phone on a regular basis. Every time this happens he has to call me to ask for people's numbers. Most of these numbers he has been calling his whole life, but he, like so many others, place calls by browsing their call list. Hence, he cannot recall things he has known his entire adult life. Ridiculous!

I guess what I am saying is get hard copies of everything, and learn how to do things manually, the old fashioned way. I hope the time never comes, but someday we may need something to fall back on.

[Hookemdown.]

I'm going to milk it as long as I can. I like to read, but I hate some literature.

My least favorite poet is Poe, but he wrote my favorite poem, "The Raven". Go figure.

I'm thinking " The itsy bitsy spider" ranks right up there with you?

Please do not question my intelligence.

I'm second in my class (4.0 GPA), Student Council parliamentarian, NHS member and Quiz Bowl Captain (we made State last year). I've qualified for a full ride to a local university, where I plan to attending the Honors College.

I believe that comment was somewhat inappropriate.

[bmadd]

Hook that might have been in reference to the spider joke/your avatar.

Tin- don't worry. Just wait until finals week, nothing like your school's server getting overloaded the week when it's most important  

[daviscw]

What's going to happen if everything crashes one day? People have become beyond dependent on technology. For example, my younger brother breaks his cell phone on a regular basis. Every time this happens he has to call me to ask for people's numbers. Most of these numbers he has been calling his whole life, but he, like so many others, place calls by browsing their call list. Hence, he cannot recall things he has known his entire adult life. Ridiculous!

I guess what I am saying is get hard copies of everything, and learn how to do things manually, the old fashioned way. I hope the time never comes, but someday we may need something to fall back on.

Not all technologies will fail at once though. Verizon Wireless has a service called backup assistant that stores all your phone numbers to another server. I've gone through 3 phones just this year without losing a number.

I predict in the future there will be no books at all.

[bmadd]

Also-you should read some of Poe's short stories. I like them much more than his poetry.

[Hookemdown.]

Hook that might have been in reference to the spider joke/your avatar.

I didn't think about that.  If it is the case, I send my apologies.  

[burleytog]

Not all technologies will fail at once though. Verizon Wireless has a service called backup assistant that stores all your phone numbers to another server. I've gone through 3 phones just this year without losing a number.

I predict in the future there will be no books at all.

;D

[Tin]

I'm going to milk it as long as I can. I like to read, but I hate some literature.

My least favorite poet is Poe, but he wrote my favorite poem, "The Raven". Go figure.

I'm thinking " The itsy bitsy spider" ranks right up there with you?

Please do not question my intelligence.

I'm second in my class (4.0 GPA), Student Council parliamentarian, NHS member and Quiz Bowl Captain (we made State last year). I've qualified for a full ride to a local university, where I plan to attending the Honors College.

I believe that comment was somewhat inappropriate.

So your the type of kid I tormented in High School...

I had a 3.89 >

[bassdocktor]

Well Tin I can take your online lectures 1 further. I'm in pharmacy school now and with the exception of one class we need no books. Everything they want us to know is given to us as a handout and then they are posted online. Additionally, one of the classes even records the lectures and posts them online.

It makes sense because its one less thing for us to worry about but it was still a surprise to find out we didn't need any books. So I guess now all we have to do is study. They do give us a book list should we want references.

[Tin]

No books must be a great thing, would save me about $400-$600 a semester.

[bassdocktor]

Books are expensive. I have no idea how much it would cost me other wise. I have 5 classes so that'd be 5 books all being science reference books. We've learned how expensive those are. Then most of my classes have atleast 5 lecturers so that'd probably be a few more books as they all favor different ones.

I kinda think that is a major reason they give us everything we need in a handout. Obviously those are perfect, but those are the powerpoints the teachers use. They do charge somewhere around $150 for all the copying which is cheap compared to what it could be.