<p>Do the professors at UCLA care if you use a laptop during class? I know it depends on the professor, but what's the general feel towards it?</p>
<p>Tons of people use laptops during North Campus (humanities and social science) classes. It’s much less common in science classes (though I haven’t done any life science so I’m not so sure there). </p>
<p>I think in math classes there’s often a presumption (usually true) that students on laptops are doing something non-class-related. I’ve even had a Statistics professor that banned laptops.</p>
<p>I’ve had the experience of having professor Abidi lecture, he’s a EE professor, he bans laptops and phones and scolds you in class when he sees it. I brought my laptop to CS classes, since it was easier to take notes for me cause Smallberg does alot of looking back and insertions. I took a history ge, history of india, and i brought my laptop since it went by quite quick and writing notes was difficult and too slow. Physci 5(another ge) i also brought a laptop since he used slides and was again kinda fast. It depends on the person. Undeniably i got distracted when i brought my laptop, but it helps with taking notes. Couple times, podcasts were not availiable so i even recorded the lecture using my laptop. Most of time i brought my laptop for my cs classes, so i just took notes with it in my other classes. Never in math though -_-</p>
<p>I’ve always been able to whip out my laptop in pretty much any class.</p>
<p>I think bringing laptops are encouraged for north campus classes and most professors don’t mind if you do, typing up notes is much much faster than writing them by hand. South campus, really depends on what type of class. Bringing a laptop to a Comp Sci class is probably useful, but bringing it to a math class … not so much (it’s super hard trying to copy down examples and diagrams on a computer).</p>
<p>Haha yea, unless you have one of those tablet laptops? where you can just draw everything -_- which is like taking notes w/e one anyways… But I’ve seen this guy use it in physics. It was really useful since you have to draw diagrams yet write explanation or formulas down.</p>