nah it's not required we print out anything so i have saved paper which is nice. we also have a pretty good online library that i have access to so it doesn't mean going to the campus to use it. i hope your next class is better and more paper efficient! and it really is a totally different field and it really doesn't have anything to do with communications, or at least what i learned haha i suppose there may be some researching sort of aspects that carried over buuut i am totally a very bad speaker although i am much better at writing, which is what my focus was during those communication years hehe