Flashbacks of SEMO Days

I'm surviving week two of classes, but it's getting harder. Two of my classes are sticking to their respective syllabi very well. My technology class, not so much. Along with the lengthy articles assigned each week, our professor keeps adding readings to each week. I know all professors, and teachers for that matter, always have the little "This syllabus is subject to change at the instructor's discretion..." statement and I'm okay with that if they add something relative. I just was forced to read the transcripts (not well written ones at that) from a tv show from 1997. Many of the things mentioned in the program have already happened and are no longer "cutting edge" or the predictions of doom and gloom (Apple won't make it another 5 years) have definitely not come to pass. I was reading this as I was watching a student, yes a student, play with their new Iphone today in class. While I realize that this class is important, I wish the professor would remember that none of us are full-time grad students. Everyone in the class has a regular job, plus we're all taking multiple classes in addition to his. I guess I'm just getting a little worried since I feel like if I devote time to my other class, this one slides and if I give this class all the time it seems like I'm going to have to devote to it, the other class will struggle. At least I finished the 1 hour class last week and it's out of the way. I'm having several flashbacks from SEMO, or Southeast as it is commonly known now, from classes where the professors thought their class was the most important class you'd ever take and in order to do well, you had to let other equally important classes slide a little bit. I survived those classes and I'll survive this one as well. Unfortunately, I'm not finding it as easy to do this now as I did 10-15 years ago!