Apparently, people can listen to, understand, and retain audio at double or triple speed—or higher! Doing some quick math: 4 years of classes with 30 weeks or so per year at 16+ hours per week gives me close to 2000 hours of classes. Let's be very generous, and say that 1/3 of those hours involved useful interaction that couldn't have been sped up. That still leaves me with 700-1000 hours at least that I spent listening to pointless empty space and long vowel sounds (some professors ...uuuuuuuuhhhhhhhh... could ...uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuhhhhhhhh... be ...uuuuhhhhhh... shortened even ...uhhh... more. Much, much more). We won't even go into the hours that were 100% content free, and could thus be compressed infinitely without loss of information.
Now, even assuming it took me over five hours per page to write my thesis, I could have been done one or two times over with all that lost time. So now I won't have to feel bad about not having finished my thesis. I would have been done, but I had to listen to vowels instead.
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