You Know You're an Online Student When...

Do you have the silly traits of many distance learners? You know you’re an online student when…

You use smileys to communicate approval of your peers’ ideas.

Your teacher goes by his AIM screen name.

You believe that your college friends actually look like their avatar.

You wear your pajamas to the midterm.

You buy Visine in bulk from Costco to sooth your eyes after staring at the screen all day.

You have iTunes blaring when watching your professor’s lecture.

Your professor demonstrates her intense passion for a subject by typing IN ALL CAPS.

Your back is hunching from sitting slumped in a chair, not from carrying heavy books.

You’ve forgotten the difference between “surfing” and “researching.”

College social life consists of meeting in a chat room on a Friday night.

You live 500 miles away from your school and your commute to class is three feet from the bed to the computer.