When I discovered my criminal law professor did not allow laptops, I almost changed my entire schedule. I had lucked out with the records office and secured a schedule that allowed me to start no earlier than 10:00 am, perfect for a night owl like myself. And yet I was so distraught at the prospect of not being able to type my notes, I was contemplating voluntarily accepting a new schedule that would require me to schlep to school blurry-eyed and half-asleep.
Not since high school had I been in a laptop-free classroom. My Arabic major involved a lot of handwriting instruction and pen-and-paper work, but all my undergraduate professors never prohibited laptops. Even my Spanish and Portuguese classes allowed devices in class, presumably seeing little value in forcing us all to remember the keyboard shortcuts for é and ç.
I have always had abysmal handwriting, but I was born in the weird mini-generation that was taught both cursive and typing in elementary school. My class bounced from wor…
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