Bad Student Behavior

About 2 years ago I visited a Housing Law class at USC with a friend of mine who was in law school. I sat in the back of the classroom and observed these students. My friend was in the 99th percentile with his LSAT score and from this, I gather the others in the room were no dummies. As I looked around the room I observed a very interesting laptop phenomena: SOLITAIRE. Almost half the class was playing solitaire and occasionally lifting their eyes from the game to pretend they were listening.

"How could this be?" I thought to myself, horrified. These 4.0, 175 LSAT scorers (highest score possible: 180), probably had to choose between Harvard, Stanford or USC law students are wasting precious class time playing card games on their computers. I just couldn't believe students would do this during class time.

My, my, How times have changed. Here I sit writing this blog in my Saturday morning Policy Analysis and Evaluation class. Shame, shame on me. I know. But I can't help myself! The teacher is talking about hybrid cars. What does that have to do with public administration? I can also blame my shameful behavior on a bit of sickness due to my concert-capades last night. My attention span is a bit low this morning.

All I can say is cheers to wireless internet and laptops. This morning you are my lifesaver!