[stephengillie]

The author doesn't claim his lectures are boring. He claims that his classmates "whip out a phone mid class to text friends or browse Facebook", which is boredom behavior. So while the author may or may not be bored in class, his classmates obviously are.

And yes, "freaking out" was the wrong way to phrase "so overly concerned/bored that writing a blog post about the issue was necessary".