@Kacir: Thanks for pointing out the analog computer. I completely missed it!
In high school, we could take typing in lieu of phys ed. I took bowling, archery, etc., just anything to let me look cute in shorts while talking to the boys without having to actually do any sort of fitness or sweating. Finally, senior year, I took typing. It was all girls and not nearly as much fun as co-ed slacker PE. It was after lunch, so I would sleepily speed through the assignment, then nap for the rest of the period.
Teacher HATED me! I didn't take it seriously enough, I suppose. When my sister came through her classroom four yrs later, she actually had to convince the teacher that she was a good girl and not a troublemaker like I had been.
