In Out, In Out!
Entertainment of the week has been watching DK pulling the cable out on the internet connection every couple of hours. Or watching JT look at the box of cables without being sure which one to pull.
Absolutely Ridiculous. Yes, the Facebook useage of some people in the class is way way over the top...Fb counselling anyone? And, JT has a point, if you really can't go 2 hours without updating your life to the whole world, then you have issues!!
But...at the same time...we've all paid the same amount of money for the course and we are all in it for the same reasons. So if people want to 'waste' their money and or time by dicking round on the 'net then that's their loss.
All of us have a 5 or 10 minute zone out in most of the lectures, and a good internet browse never hurt anyone. In the case of others there are deadlines that have to be met, and emails that have to be sent. Sending those in lecture time never hurt anyone. If not, then how are we supposed to 'stay in touch' - something key to any journalist. Half 1 till 2 is lunch time, and by 5.30 or 6 most peope have gone home.
News Associates obviously lives and dies by its reputation for getting the most people through the exam with good marks; but if you think people spending all day on the internet is going to affect that, then I'd be very surprised.
There's always an alternative - hence the mysterious empty files that people may find cropping up in their 'personal' folders.
It takes the biscuit anyway when the lecturers' blackberries are going off with messages, or they are sat there so busy with the internet on their phones that they forget to let us go for lunch!
Get a grip - we all have Iphones, Blackberries & HTCs anyway so pull the wires if you have to, we'll just use the phones.
And long may the sparks fly...smash the state indeed!
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