Both absent-minded doodling and copying from life have been shown to positively affect your memory and visual perception, so complain loudly the next time your school board slashes the art department's budget.
That way, the researchers can see if the self-identified verbal learners really learned better when the information was just spoken aloud, for example.
Please be quiet. Please keep it down. Could you lower your voice? You're too loud. You're too noisy. You're disturbing everybody. Sorry to say that. I hope you don't mind. Please don't take offense.
But for friends who are more far flung, you might be more apt to send a shout out, rather than making the effort to get together to bump fists or fins.