In fact, I often hear anecdotes ... that best game players are not the best students in class.

It is a fact of life for most kids. Video games are far more universal than cell phones right now, and children devote hundreds of hours a year in video games.

They don't watch programs anymore; they watch pieces of programs.

They have to look at what individual students have done rather than at their class rank because everybody that applies to them is in the top of their class.

I think most students come in knowing what to expect. They've heard about the class and about me.

Long assignments that take longer for me to do than the other students in my class to do.