Comment on ‘I’m a modern-day luddite’: Meet the students who don’t use laptops

• LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I had the opposite experience, in person lectures drove me crazy as an unmedicated adhder, I’d be constantly chiming in and answering every question, my legs would be going wild under the table and I’d usually be just doing something else most of the time on the laptop. Online is much much easier to listen to and get invested in at your own time and pace because you can be eating or vaping while watching at 3AM or whatever and nobody gives a fuck

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  • Madzielle@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Doodle. I always doodled in my notes. Repeating patterns worked for me, because I am no artist.

    I am still unmedicated, and method helped me a lot with lectures using pencil snd paper for notes.

    Everyones different, I failed my online college courses. In person, I do alright. You may like online better.

    But if you’re forced to sit in lecture, fuckin doodle.

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    • LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Nah, that shit woulda never helped me and I wouldn’t even know where to start and I never have, we had laptops open on lectures so I just wrote small programs about whatever concepts the lecturer talked about but to sit in the same place for 2 hours it was borderline impossible.

      After entering the workforce it was just pure torture sitting in the office waiting to die 8 hours a day, I went through like a full character arc from arrogant to humble to desperate to hate at others to hate at self to finally worldly and gradually radicalized against the onslaught of alienation.

      I came back for my masters in 2020 and it was fairly sweet all online.

      Thankfully now many years later I WFH. Uni is far behind. Haven’t handwritten anything in years, I’m almost curious to try it

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      • Madzielle@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        sitting in the office waiting to die 8 hours a day

        That is exactly why I absolutely thrived in manufacturing. Well, the right type of manufacturing. I’d rather die than work in an office. I lasted exactly one month at my one and only desk job before I had to quit and find something different.

        I don’t write often anymore either, but recently tried to write a letter to someone, wow after a few sentences could I notice how out of practice I was. I ‘jot things down’ all the time, but a letter, paragraphs, whew.

        I think it’s tough, because many degree jobs are all desk jobs, so it’s like, you want the degree and good money, but the work, doesn’t sound fun. Im glad wfh has helped though, thats great

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