I have had to write a lot of research papers lately. Some of these research papers I have spent hours looking at titles of a million different research articles and then, frustrated, starting over from scratch. I wonder what I would've done in the age where you actually had to go to the library and physically look through journal articles for something that might pertain to your topic...wow. I think I would die.
And what did crazy people like me who have to know their grade in their classes at all times do without Learning Suite or Blackboard?? I can't even imagine the anxiety I would have going to college without the internet, on top of the anxiety I already feel! And what did people do when they had a question for their instructor a few hours before their assignment is due? Stop by their house? Haha. I am so grateful for the day and age I live in where searching for research isn't an impossible task, where I can stress about my grades before the end of the semester, and where I can email my professors last minute and still likely get an answer back from them and do my assignments right.
Stop by their house...hahaha! That is so true! College would be completely different and SO much harder without the internet!
ReplyDeleteTotally agree! Sometimes I think about typing my papers on typewriters and then having to use correction tape and it never being quite perfect because you can see all of the marks where I messed up. Too much for me! I can't even handle it. I would have to write all of my papers by hand, which also would not work because I have messy hand writing (I have actually had teachers tell me to type assignments... or write nicer, ha ha). So that probably wouldn't work either. Definitely grateful to be a college student today!
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