But being a law student, I'm sorry, trees are not our biggest fan! We need thick books, huge bulk of notes, statute books and thousands of papers for exams because it is essay-based. So when the University of London wanted to 'save the trees' and protect the environment, all of us moaned!!
Now, let's be practical, unless you have an ipad, reading would be much easier from an electronic device. But if you're reading 500 pages of notes from the laptop, your eyes will literally go blur and strained. At least with books, you can highlight it easy and take it out and read whenever you want without going through switching on the computer and getting distracted by facebook LOL
Besides, most of our assignments are written based. So it's not convenient when our e-books are in the computer. It's not like we can cut and paste it in microsoft words. But whatever it is, the university did their part in saving the environment and now our study packs are in CDs...
But not most of it. Our textbooks are still in books. Our subject guides, however, are unbinded stacks of papers. Come on, at least bind it for us if you do not want to put hard covers on it since you want to save the trees *smacks head*
Further, some regulations books and what not are to be referred online. I think by next year everything will just be in the online library and no more books to be sent from London. Last year, our consignment from London was 14kg. This year it's only 7.22 kg. They lightened it by half. Uni of London should be given some award in their actions to save the trees LOL
But of course the fees are still the same. WTH! At least when you lessen the package, give a discount to our fees too! Since they want to us to be so technology savvy why don't they conduct lectures from London and we can view via webcam here so that we don't need to go to our colleges. Doesn't transportation increases carbon footprints??
Yeah, they should really think about that. Go all out to save the environment...
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