Try to imagine yourself sitting in a college classroom. Maybe it's been awhile, maybe you sit in one every day. Regardless, try to hear the sounds of chatter and indecipherable whisper amongst your peers. Imagine your laptop in front of you, the hard seat under your bottom, and your professor at the front of the class.

What is he or she doing? Is this person, who is one of your many professors, whose job it is to guide you on the path to higher education, using a PowerPoint?

Living in an age of technology really does improve education in a lot of ways. PowerPoints, specifically, are a great way to effectively teach a lesson when used correctly. They allow visual learners the opportunity to learn in their own style, they are great for note-taking, and they're fairly simple to create and upload. This is where the problem starts.

My biggest pet peeve is the overuse and abuse of PowerPoints. I am paying upwards of twenty-thousand dollars to pursue my undergraduate degree. I am paying to be taught by some of the best educators at one of the best universities, so you can understand the aggravation I feel when being read to off of a slideshow for two hours, multiple times a day.

Kindergarten is when formal education begins to teach students to read. By the end of elementary school, a student should be able to read a chapter book. In middle school, the reading level is expected to improve, and in high school, the vocabulary of a student should be beyond sufficient.

So why do professors insist on reading to us? They know that we know how. Why sit us down for a fifty minute, seventy-five minute, or even two-hour lecture to look at a screen that they're going to upload online that we could take notes on at our leisure?

I am an adult, I am intelligent, and I am literate. I have been taught, as early as middle school, how to create a PowerPoint and present it without reading off of the slides. I expect my lecturers to be able to do the same. Please, on behalf of all students who think like I do, let us challenge you to challenge us beyond a screen.