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My Report
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From: Chenglin Lu
At CSUCI, many professors I have taken classes of are requiring students to bring real
books instead of E-Book in the manner of avoiding cheating. Some of us believe that paper
is one of the necessities of studying or participating in a society. However, that isnt true in
many aspects. I have done a research to understand how different people are having
different opinions on paperless lifestyle. It benefits the whole school from decreasing the
net cost daily, and it also helps students, who are the future of the society, to develop a
Background
More than ten campuses in the US had established a project of paperless lifestyle. Its
very easy to deploy where the rewards are significant. However, CSUCI havent officially
become a paperless campus. According to CIs annaul waste report, the amount of landfill
waste has increased from 467 tons to 622 tons in the period of 2014-2016 while electricity
energy consumption hasnt change much (< 2%). Reduce paper consuption has a nature of
their opinion of paperless lifestyle. To my surprise, only less than 15% participants dont
like or wont accept the paperless lifestyle. 80% of my clients believe that professors who
enforce students to buy or rent paper-based textbooks are unreasonable while there is a
high percentage of professors still doing that. The report indicatess that most students are
annoyed by professors who reinforces students to use actual paper and most students
paperless lifestyle. I have read many essays which analyze the benefits of paperless lifestyle
and the core difficulties of applying it to the society. Most of these writers believe that
paperless is a future trend where time is the only issue. Since papers are containers of
information, most articles explained how digital information container will have a faster
speed on information processing and they explained why the cost of paper is higher than is
I realized that more than 80% students understand the paperless lifestyle and the
benefits of deploying it. Since students are mostly new generation who were born with
smartphone invented, they understand the new technology better. I find out that professors
who arent related to IT\CS\Language prefer traditional paperwork. Since most of their
The implications were that people who understand the benefits of paperless cant go
paperless as they want since their professors who are grading them arent letting them do
so. Thats why a official paperless plan annouced by the CSUCI is neccesary.
Paperless style is a destined future trend due to their nature of effective, efficient,
environmentally friendly, and higher security of privacy. Its a matter of time if our school
is going to deploy it. However, the sooner we deploy it, the more experience we will gain.
Remember, for those who ignore technologies, technologies will eliminate them.