I get very distracted by extraneous noise in the classroom. So I try not to sit near people who whisper to each other during the lectures or who are using laptops. The clacking of the laptop keyboards is very distracting to me. Some are much noisier than others. So many students bring laptops to classes it is hard to avoid them. I try to be one of the last students seated as then I can better choose a seat without laptop people next to me. I've had a couple of professors who had a special laptop section so that they were confined there. That was great. I asked a professor this quarter if she could do that, but she refused.

I find tests very hard to focus on also. I try to do little tricks during the tests, like if I get through the first two pages of the test, I will "reward" myself by allowing myself to take a little break--I draw a flower on the back of the test, or something like that. Then I do the next two pages of the test, etc.