When therewere no computers or smartphones, was college easieron techrepu?

I’m a first year college student and I’m definitely not new to technology but it’s all pretty overwhelming, the site we are using has our class assignments and syllabuses all over the place and I have to check my student email and all my notifications every day at home all the time to see if anything changed or was assigned before the actual class starts.

I’ve just been wondering what college was like before all this technology, I imagine it being much easier with just about everything in person on techrepublic