Something I've come to appreciate over the last year of studying Mandarin is how well paper works for studying as compared to anything digital. In the past I've

Something I've come to appreciate over the last year of studying Mandarin is how well paper works for studying as compared to anything digital. In the past I've often been frustrated by absorbing difficult materials like CS papers. I never gave much thought to the medium because PDFs are pretty convenient, you _can_ annotate them, it's easy to copy paste and search for you things don't understand, etc. However, I still struggled to finish reading and understand a paper. I'm realizing now that I'm much more capable to form understanding than I used to think, and the trick is going to 7-Eleven and printing out a paper instead of reading the PDF. There's something about being able to quickly skim, mark up parts of it, etc. that no digital format has matched for me. If I was going university today, I'd never bring my laptop to class again.