POLL: have you ever done extracurricular surfing in a class w/ Internet Access??

[iamme]

i'm sitting in class. professor is booooring. we have internet access, so i pass the time by reading OT. so, fess up.....anyone else do this (or have done this)?

 

[iamme]

for those of you who have, did you surf w/ the browser maximized? or were you to embarassed and surfed w/ a resized window (like me )?

 

[Shawn]

I would play Quake 3 online w/ my school's computers. lol.

 

[dighn]

of course
but it's during lab periods so nobody gives a shlt

 

[aswedc]

every day...they're iMacs though...so browsing long threads is kind of painful

 

[atomstryker]

every day

 

[numark]

All the time When you have classes as long as I do, you need some diversion while you're sitting there waiting for the completely blithering idiots to figure out how to use a mouse, let alone how to actually do anything on their computer.

 

[Anubis]

yes.

friends of mine use IM in class

 

[Glitchny]

every day in lab, window maximized

 

[Kevin]

It was so bad that our teacher shuts the power off now and prints out our notes. He used to pull the plug for the internet feed but that didn't last long. We setup a dummy switch so when he unplugged the wire, it wouldn't affect anything. It worked great until someone messed with it and brought down the teachers computer...

 

[rudeguy]

I used to surf at work...does that count?

 

[zsouthboy]

Heh... I got through in ANY of my computer classes so much faster than anyone else, I would get all my computer info update stuff done for my day during it. e.g. hardocp, then anandtech, then ATOT, etc etc

 

[TallBill]

yeah, windows maximized.. anything is better then hearing a teacher speak

 

[brtspears2]

Of course. It's the only voice of reason sometimes.

 

[zsouthboy]

BTW Alt-Tab is your friend

 

[pennylane]

our teacher joined us in our yahoo games sometimes (during lab time).
a pity we hadn't found out about monopoly yet...

 

[Schadenfroh]

at my school we play Postal2 and UT2003 while we are waiting for our movies to finish downloading.

 

[N8Magic]

Yes, I did.

The window was maximized for everyone to see.

 

[SarcasticDwarf]

hell yes, that is what college is all about!

 

[iamme]

hehe, in class again

 

[WarmAndSCSI]

Originally posted by: zsouthboy
BTW Alt-Tab is your friend

So is WINDOWS+D

 

[WarmAndSCSI]

Originally posted by: Schadenfroh
at my school we play Postal2 and UT2003 while we are waiting for our movies to finish downloading.

We had a UT2003 day at the end of school, but I skipped out b/c the computers don't run it worth a crap. Of course the morons in my classes don't know the difference between a TNT2 and a Radeon 9700 Pro

 

[monk3y]

ALL THE TIME!!!

 

[Luden]

wt... poll results:

Total Votes: 71

Yes, I've surfed the web during class
68 (votes) 95.77 (%)

No, I've had access, but never did extracurricular surfing
0 (votes) 0.00 (%)

Results/Never had internet access in class
3 (votes) 4.23 (%

People actually being honest?

Luden.

 

[Mookow]

LOL, no one has resisted surfing...