It was only a matter of time until we reached this inconvenient truth. Professors now know that we’re not doing work on our laptops during lecture. This unfortunate discovery came about when a visiting faculty member guest lectured a law class and the normal professor sat in the back. He claimed that 90% of the online students were participating in non-course related materials such as shopping, email, news and apartment searching.

Honestly, it’s surprising that this wasn’t discovered sooner. Apparently, the professors couldn’t deduce that the reason you yelled “HUSTLE” in class was because the person in front of you was playing text twist, and had “ETHSLU” on the screen. Thankfully, there’s really nothing that can be done to stop this sort of online activity. Lecture doesn’t require attendance; technically you could just stay at home and play Tetris. However, pretending to be learning in class helps rid the guilt of our parent’s tuition money, so let the games continue.