text: With students not being able to control their schedules, becoming more stressed, and not getting better at the things they enjoy, it is clear that not forcing students to do extra curricular activities is more beneficial than trying to control their lives outside of school. My school does not force me to extra curricular activities and I am thankful for that, even though I still do a lot of activities such as hockey, lacrosse, French horn, and swimming. Without having to do extra curricular activities I feel like a have more freedom and if I really wanted to, I could quit everything to focus on skateboarding, which I really enjoy.Many students get confused and bored during class. It may be the lesson, but it could also be the teacher and how the teacher is explaining the lesson. With Facial Action Coding System, computers will be able to detect when a student is slowly becoming confused or bored. The software is the latest innovation from Prof. Thomas Huang, of the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science at the University of Illinoise, working in collaboratio with Prof. Nicu Sebe of the University of Amsterdam. Dr. Huang and his colleague are experts at developing better ways for humans and computers to communicate. "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored," Dr. Huang predicts. There are a million reasons to use the Facial Action Coding system and class is one of them.