Professors, please don't put up PowerPoint slides, read directly from them, and then expect us to write as fast you can read.

You often say "only write down the important stuff." Well, if it's not important, then don't put it on the slide. Also, if you do use PowerPoint slides, please put them in a course packet so we can actually listen to what you are saying rather than practice our note-taking skills. Of course some of us will take advantage of this and skip class, but then again that is probably because you read directly from the slides. Fortunately, your predecessors taught us how to read 15 years ago, so you don't have to.

Also, if you look at us when you're lecturing and see half of us sleeping and the other half pretending to pay attention, part of that is because we're lazy and but most of it is because you lost us -- take the hint.

We also think you need to cooperate with your colleagues in the educational psychology department when making multiple choice exams. They have empirical evidence that shows multiple choice testing procedures that use answers such as "A & B, not C but E on Mondays" act as confounding variables and aren't accurate representations of our knowledge. And since you love empirical evidence so much, why still administer these tests?

Finally, show some emotion when lecturing, laugh a little, it's OK, really, we won't tell the dean or the editors of your peer-reviewed journal.