So I’m of the let’s call it pre-computer generation actually. We were still playing football on the streets and even the NES (Nintendo Entertainment System) that I own I got for my tenth birthday. In a way it does make things different; I’m used to taking notes for example, and actually, when things are normal, I rely on note taking a fair amount, although I stopped taking them during university classes and just listen these days, although it’s arguable that I won’t be attending too many of them anymore in the future.
But the point is simple, I do like (and use) pencil and paper. I bought a good pencil in Japan actually, and have really started using during the past few weeks. If I’m ever in the position then I’ll buy a good pen as well. Markers and all can be super basic, I don’t care about those, but to me personally a good pencil and a good pen are kind of indispensible utensils. Especially the pencil to be honest.
That is, when you have (and are allowed) a real life, with all that comes with it and not some drugged up shitshow designed with the sole goal of wasting your life. Ah yes and experiments. And covering up a gazillion lies. And the list goes on. But let’s not get there for now.
So yeah, modern whizzkids surely do things differently, but I’ve always stuck to the old method. There are people older than me who are more used to using these modern tools that exist nowadays, but on and offline, but not me. People were (and probably still are) always surprised to hear that, in second language acquisition ‘computer assisted learning’ and the methods and tools that come with is a whole, not unimportant subfield. But the oddity of it all is that I hardly use those things. During the shitshow I did make to-do-lists in libreoffice sometimes, but normally they’re just pencil and paperwork.
So the moral methodological statistics (god what a skill) hazard, was doing methodology II, statistics. It’s really dumb shit, but yeah. Anyway, we were having class in one of those uni styles computer rooms, and yeah, some great piece of statistics software (trust me, I’m rolling my eyes right now), and whatever. So the dude comes and stands behind me. I happened to have a pencil and a piece of paper (A4 size) on the table and was writing some stuff down. He did bent forward to read my notes, and read them. I obviously noticed.
He, apart from some notes related to class, read one of ’em to-do-lists for the foreseeable future. The point is that back then I would write 90% of it straightaway in Chinese, cuz whatever. And those were actually in fairly neat characters, I remember that. I can write fairly properly (not really great, but neither is my Latin alphabet handwriting), but most of the time I’m just lazy and race through it. Those notes were actually in comparatively neat characters. So he saw 1 page with a bunch of stuff to do/buy/etc, and a few notes (at that time mostly just new vocabulary, really) that that to do with poli science.
So he knew.
Now can I get my fourteen (!) years back mr. Moral Hazard?
And please pay up for at least the past 5 years.
Thanks For Your Support!
