No Attendance Required: I consider myself a nontraditional learner. I have difficulties paying attention in lectures, so I tend to not attend them if there is no attendance required. As a result, I get most of my learning from reading the book or watching videos about the subject online. I find it a lot easier to pay attention when I am able to rewind parts of a video or increase the playback speed. I don't think that this is a rare thing for college students nowadays either. Most of my friends in Computer Science and ECE have professors that upload lectures to youtube so they can watch at their convenience. I know some in math classes that completely disregard the lecturer they have and watch some of the MIT open lectures or others on youtube. I do not think this is a bad thing. If these students are able to get a better understanding of the material than if they had attended lectures this is positive for education as a whole. A big exception to this rule of learning by oneself