<p>Hi, </p>
<p>I'm an incoming freshie, and I was wondering if there are electrical outlets to plug laptops into in classrooms? My local university has them, and I was wondering if this was featured at Penn? Otherwise, how do guys get their laptops to stay alive through 2 consecutive 3-hour lectures? Perhaps pen and paper is the way to go?</p>
<p>You can usually find outlets, but honestly I never brought a laptop to class. It is entirely too distracting in large lectures – pen and paper does just fine. In certain small seminars, it was useful to have a laptop there in order to do research on the fly (made conversations more interesting), but it wasn’t necessary by any stretch of the imagination.</p>
<p>Penn and paper is the way to go.</p>
<p>some profs don’t allow laptops. they want everyone’s attention(which is reasonable. i wouldn’t want to lecture to a bunch of people playing around on facebook)</p>
<p>Thanks, are there any classes in which laptops makes things much better (i.e. faster note-taking) or is it that the majority of classes just don’t really require one?</p>
<p>My writing seminar mandated that we bring a laptop to every class. On the flipside, I’ve had at least 4 professors who asked that we not use any electronic devices during class.</p>