Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for October 15, 2021

Aaron!!!

Sad, but true.

You quickly develop your own version of shorthand!

When did Aaron hill go blond?

Do they even pass notes in High School anymore? I’m sure it’s all texting now.

In High School Luann was too chicken to pass notes to Aaron Hill. Today college students have the phones open to record the prof;s every word.

Where is Gunther?

Laptop? Cellphone to record? Old school tape recorder?

Some students just record lectures and take pictures of notes on the whiteboard with their phones. At least my CC students did when I taught at CC years ago.

Apparently we continue with the two-panel quips for the remainder of the week. Sometimes the humor has been worth it, sometimes the artwork was worth it and the current attempts a rendering the middle school crowd was definitely worth it.

Let’s hope that next week we will find out what has happened to Bernice and the Pitts C.C. crowd; especially Luann.

Technology has made College a lot easier.

Luann should have brought her Underwood typewriter to class. A good typist can type much faster than they can write by hand.

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And you gamers think you have the loudest clicky keyboards. Typewriters are much louder than Kailh Box Jade switches in an aluminum keyboard case…

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Anyone ever try an original IBM type M keyboard with buckling spring switches? A little slow for most gaming, but make a nice sound and a good feel for just regular old typing.

Notes in college: Stuff you can’t wait to forget.

Okay, a follow-up question: When you were Luann’s age, what adventures were you getting into?

Me: I was a Jesus Freak, dancing on the beach with my friends at midnight while shouting “Halleluia!”, attending hilarious weird theme parties with G-rated refreshments, engaging in earnest Bible studies that got everything all wrong, and trying to write a really lame novel.

My husband: Hitchhiked across the USA, wound up in New York City, got into the Pagan revival, got involved in crazy melodramatic magic-wars between rival occult shops, left and hiked the Appallachian Trail, then hitchhiked back across the USA.

Nobody quite understood how the two of us wound up married.

But now I want to hear YOUR stories!

Students don’t take written notes anymore. They type them right into the teacher’s power point lecture.

“Instauration”? That’s one I have to look up.

It’s hard to imagine Aaron with blond hair. Since it has been blond two days in a row, I don’t think it is a mistake in coloring. A blond boy is not how he is remembered.

I thought you could record for later when more study time

I kind of like this twist to Greg’s narrative. It’s novel, a study in contrasts, a way to give Karen a review of the Luann history.

Re: Aaron Hill’s yellow hair – all joking aside

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As many of you know, one of the commenters here is Sheriff Mordecai. He is the colorist for the strips during the week and Saturdays. Greg colors the Sunday strips. I have known Sheriff Mordecai for a number of years, he has an extremely busy schedule and and he did give me permission to explain what happened. When he colors the dailies, he works on a color palette that is established by Greg Evans. He sent me a copy of the color palette that shows the individual characters and the MANDATORY colors for flesh tones, lips, and hair for them unless otherwise noted by Greg. It states that if colors are not specified, then use best judgement. Now, here is where the hitch is – the color guide is from 2008, and it does not even have Aaron Hill in it. Also, the sheriff did not start coloring the strip until 2010.

To directly quote the Sheriff, “But here’s the simple reason why he’s a blonde. Greg almost always tints hair that will get color and here Aaron’s hair is clearly not tinted in the original B&W art that I am supplied.”

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So, there it is.

Not Aaron Hill again. Pass….

Never knew Luann was a southpaw.

Next panel: a student asks the “professor” what he means by that idiotic statement, and is punished with extra homework.

Notes in college: You don’t know what all the words after “the” mean. And you’re not allowed to record the audio of your professor’s lesson with any kind of device.

In addition to Aaron Hill I am also missing Diane. I would like to see her become TJ’s girlfriend. Perhaps the mysterious one that he has been dating that we have never seen…

Yes. Taking notes in college is almost a nightmare. So exhausting and it never seems to end. Even with years of experience in school, many students are not prepared for that level of work. Using recording devices definitely helps. But being you writing it give the illusion of understanding the lesson better.

“…according to Von Steinmetz, the eminent physiologist, there is ever-present a group of white phagocytes….”

This “Sunday Strip Every Day” is really, really wearing thin.

Most people nowadays either have a voice recorder set up or take pics of the screen in the lecture hall.

Come on Greg, the big difference for Luann was boys, boys boys in grade school nd high school, in college not so much

给喜欢的人传笔记绝对是过去的好时光

While I took notes in lecture, later on I used a small microcassette recorder to tape the lecture and fill in when I missed something in my notes. Microcassettes were cheap and the recorder was $20 back then. It’s probably still in my junk box someplace. Digital recorders were at least a decade away back then.

Thing is, unless it was Organic Chem or something complex, the simple act of writing down the notes was pretty much all I needed to do to absorb the material. Lucky I guess… ;-)

Yes? And?

Didn’t Aaron Hill disappear long before High School started?

Students today usually take notes on their tablets or laptops although I have quite a few freshmen and sophomores in my classes who take copious notes. I don’t get them long enough to see of they are gradually changing. I eventually graduated to few or no notes when I went back to graduate school in my 50’s. Generally since your work was written—no exams—i didn’t need them. There was that statistics course, which I did fine but I felt like I was a “freshie” again though. Took copious notes there.

Looks like LuAnn is continuing with her art classes and Prof. Zebo is dazzling the class with $1.00 words to continue impressing them with his eclectic style.

When was Aaron ever blonde…?

Two strips in a row with Aaron Hill, after years of being absent.

I wonder if Greg is using the flashbacks as a way to subtly re-introduce him before bringing him back?

I don’t care about Aaron Hill either way, but it WOULD be nice to see ANY progression from Luann.

I remember Aaron from when I first started reading LUANN. Didn’t he make a “guest appearance” a few years ago?

I always took them back in my college days.

The instoration of ecological didactyl-whatism?

Luann’s a Lefty!

I found out “instauration” is a real word.

Are the authors on vacation this week?

I never took any notes in college. I got my degree. I will not talk about my grade point average, but that had more to do with me not wanting to do much of the course work and mainly just took the tests which I generally scored high on. High school was very easy for me, so I never learned to study, and in college studying was a necessity.

I’m waiting the return of Aaron: comes back big, fat, and ugly.

Lots of comments on Arron Hill’s hair, but also Arron moved to Hawaii by the time Luann was in High School

Nowadays kids can stay at home and take online classes

Transition to college in the mid-’90s hit me like a truck.

Seems to me Aaron left for Hawaii before G&K turned Luann from a cartoony kid into an attractive young woman. Do I have my chronology right?

I had a physics prof who would write notes with one hand and erase with the other (well, it seemed so anyway). we couldn’t figure out how to keep up with him until one guy finally brought a Polaroid to class.

It’s Sunday everyday!

When did bringing computers and adding machines into class stop being regarded as cheating?

Oh look, we’ve time traveled back to a period before electronic devices for communicating and recording were in widespread use. Someone should remind Greg that thanks to the rolling timeline, Luann’s high school days no longer included 1980’s-period communication methods.

Bring back Aaron Hill.

This is why laptops (or tablets with Bluetooth keyboards) are needed in college as your hand will fall off trying to take written notes – and why taking a typing class in high school is so needed.

Voice recorder. Now a free and effective phone app, just like calculators.

Duh.

For some reason I always thought he was gay.

Hate to complain, these feel a bit like stalling.

“Um, Professor, can I record these lectures?”

It’s (past) time to bring back shorthand.

Please switch over to other characters.

Thanks, I looked up “instauration.” Even my spell check didn’t have it!

Yup – had a 1st year college bio teacher who talked fast and was very interesting. BUT, the test was VERBATIM from his lecture (fill in the important missing part of a line) – if you didn’t have verbatim notes you had a problem. But, he gave the same lecture for years, discovered 2nd semester that people were selling copies of his lectures built over the years. Learned more that semester, and did better on the tests.

tomorrow: one last comparison … what shall it be?

I do recognize the “college” side of the comparison, but in high school (mine, at least) that form of surreptitious communication was rarely used (not saying “never,” but it wasn’t common)….

I looked that up one time and most states now require one to be 18 or older, and even then, a number require parental consent. There are a few that allow at 16 with parental consent. At 14, I think there were a couple that did at one time, but up the age, although there may be an exception in a special case. I am on a tablet right now, so I don’t have the ability to do multiple things at once like on my desktop. If I remember, I’ll try to check it out on my desktop. Some commentstors dtill think the South is still fighting the Civil War (actually, I’d say it was those in the North, having grown up in the NE and living there the first 50+ years of my life , before living in the South nearly as long). Population movement, TV and other have made a lot of changes to how people who live in the South view things.

I was going to say get a Tape Recorder but that will show my age. I tried that in college and tried to write everything down but couldn’t read what I wrote nor could I understand what was on the Tape.