So last episode, I mentioned that at my alma mater, which is Virginia Tech, they have been

requiring tablets for a while, and when I say tablets, I don't mean iPads, I mean

honest to God, those awful Microsoft quasi-computers, not the surface, like the real old Microsoft

tablets.

And so I got some feedback.

I got some from a just graduated or recently graduated student Alan Fuller, and I got

some from somebody who is associated with the teaching part of the college, Joseph G.

I'm going to read you a very small excerpt of what Joseph said.

He said, I teach electrical engineering, and I can tell you that most of the students

here hate those required tablet PCs, that they are all required to buy more expensive and

less capable.

The purpose is for everything to be submitted electronically, but it fails so spectacularly

at this that I have, I just have them print everything and submit hard copies.

I suspect half of them are browsing Facebook during class anyway.

And I thought that was kind of interesting and different, that here it is that the school,

if you ask me, was trying to be progressive and say, oh, let's do this wild thing with

these tablets, and as it turns out, apparently everyone hates them anyway.

Which is of no great surprise, but I thought it was interesting.

I think it's interesting too, like, I mean, I think we are all, especially John, we are

all old enough that we didn't really have computers really that prevalent in classroom

as when we were in college, and certainly, you know, high school, I don't know if they

do that in high school yet, but, you know, we didn't have, like, not everybody was having

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