As a fresh MBA and technogeek, I’d like to chime in on this as well.
During lectures, I would have my e-mail open, textedit for notes, one window of Camino googling what the prof was talking about, another for my current projects, and finally my project itself and the school’s website to upload notes for my team.
The older students could not multi-task well. They were much better at taking notes and such on the class at hand. They could literally not handle “checking e-mail” and listening to the prof at the same time. When a prof would say something, I would look it up, and if I found they were wrong (which did happen a few times) I would discreetly let them know.
I don’t think my profs minded, since I pulled off a 3.9 GPA. Of course, some people goofed off, and it was their funeral for not graduating.
