At approximately 11:47 AM, Eastern Standard Time, on March 30th, 2010, a library science professor who shall remain unnamed was presenting data to a class on computer use in America.

Professor: So since this percentage of people use computers at the library, we can infer they don’t have them at home.
Someone in class: No, you can’t. What if they just want to use the library’s databases or programs?
Someone else: They could just need to go to the library to print.
Professor: I don’t know about that. Printing is so expensive! For toner and things. I’m not sure how libraries deal with that.
The Class: (stares)
Me: Chapel Hill Public charges ten cents a page.
Someone else: Yeah…. so do all of them.

She seemed genuinely surprised that you could print things at a library. I’m not saying this means she’s never been in a library ever, but maybe not since 1985. I’ll continue to gather data on this…

I decided, since first day of class is never about anything you can’t look up online later anyways, to take notes in the form of a poem. I bet you can tell everything we talked about just from that. Two cool things:

1. He decided we didn’t have to buy the book because the bookstore didn’t order them. Once again my lack of initiative pays off!

2. One of the assignments is to answer questions on Yahoo!Answers and other social Q&A sites. I realize it will probably be impossible to limit myself to anything involving the Jonas Brothers and inane dating advice (preferably both), but a girl can dream.