Friday, 07 November 2008

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  Earth to Planet Jason, Time to Tune In

  I’m sitting in class, the professor is saying something important, but I haven’t a clue what was just said because I was checking my e-mail, surfing the internet, or chatting with someone on AIM. 

  This has been my daily experience since the start of this semester of my third and final year of law school. 

  I don’t know if my heart just isn’t in it anymore, I’ve developed a bad case of ADD, or I just have classes that bore the hell out of me to the point that if I wasn’t checking e-mail or chatting on AIM I would be at risk for becoming comatosed.

  My first semester of my first year of law school I took notes solely by pen and paper, so no distractions other than the occasional doodle or note passing.  This was my best semester of law school.

  I did have a laptop that first year, but I didn’t use it in class that first semester.  I began using the laptop during my second semester, but the wireless internet card was external so I would leave it at home or in my car, so I never went online while in class.  This was my second best semester of law school.

  During the summer between my first and second year of law school I replaced that laptop with a new one-and in hindsight, sadly-an internal wireless card. 

  Now thinking about it, that is when my focus began to drift.  I didn’t use the internet during class as much as I have been this semester, but I was using it quite a bit.  My entire second year was my worst year of law school.

  Fast forward to the present.

  It is a damn good thing I record my classes, otherwise I would be neck deep in excrement.

  So, short of putting a bullet hole through the spot where I think the internal wireless card exists in my laptop I have come up with the next best solution and hopefully the problem to my lack of self control.

  I created a new user login on my laptop completely stripped of EVERYTHING but Microsoft Office Word.  Nothing else will open, not the internet (thank you parental control settings), not AIM or AOL (hallelujah), not even solitaire.

  I’ve done this for two days in a row and I must say, I never focused so much on class this semester than I have during those two days. 

  Hopefully it works, otherwise I’m going to have to go back to my old school laptop that barely has a pulse and takes 20 minutes to boot up.

   

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