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Going to university in the late 90s/early 00s, when not everyone had home computers and especially not laptops. We had the computer lab in the basement where were could go to print out essays, do research, etc.
There was the library as well with a few computers on each floor, but those were always taken, and lab access came with our tuition anyway.
Other than that and a rather simple cellphone, we were device free. We still took notes by hand, copiously highlighted lines in ridiculously overpriced text books, met with friends at the coffee shop to study, and essentially kept technology compartmentalised.
Do I miss it? Oh hell yes.
I feel lucky that i didn't had to study like that lol
To each their own I supposed. But I firmly believe you retain more knowledge, the more senses that you use when learning.
If I'm reading the material (sight), highlighting the notes (touch), and listenting to the prof (sound), I'm triggering more synapses and as a result hold more of the information in.
Letting an A.I. summarize it for you, or just recording in on a laptop voice-to-text while zoning out for the hour of that class, is completely useless because you don't actually learn anything except how to ask the computer for the answer.
That's hella of an assumption of what i do(and other people do) lol;
I just don't want to write every note by hand (Dysgraphia and dysorthography don’t help) and have to use a public device to write my notes, schemes etc etc
I was using "you" in the royal-sense; as in "anyone" or "oneself". Didn't mean to imply that you specificially do that. I apologize if it came across that way.
Ooh i see, my bad, don't worry