Thursday, October 1, 2009

The Paperless Revolution, and the Paper Counter-Revolution

Everyone's trying to go green these days.  Many businesses are trying to go paperless and run everything through the internet, and LoCo (oh, sorry - LU!) is no exception.  Almost all important forms can now be accessed online, our course catalog is going paperless, and most importantly, homework and reports can be turned in electronically.  Not all teachers have embraced this, and that's okay for the most part.  What's not okay is teachers asking for both an electronic copy and a hard copy.  Hel-loooo?  Isn't this completely defeating the purpose of allowing us to submit our work through Digital Dropbox or by email?  It's certainly not helping the environment any!  Besides, I don't have a printer of my own, and I really don't feel like leaving my room, making the trek to the computer lab (BTW, where is the closest one to Seton?), and waiting for one of LoCo's obnoxiously slow computers to start up and load my document - which I had to waste additional time emailing to myself, because the G:/ drive doesn't always work - just so I can print out something that I already emailed to the professor in sixty seconds flat.  I could have easily used that time to work on homework (right!), sleep (more likely), or even procrastinate on Facebook or (my newest option) post on my blog. 

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