September 17th, 2019:
Even before my morning coffee, my day started with the internet: after waking up at 8:45 am, I spent about 5 minutes in bed checking my instagram and snapchat notifications from the night before. Then, I continued by connecting my phone to my bluetooth speaker and streamed music while in the shower. After my shower, I used my computer in my POV 101 class to research key terms the professor asked us to define and create examples for. Following my 9:45am POV class, I continued my extensive use of the internet with, again, with both streaming music during my weight training class, and through the workout app our coaches asked us to log our lifts on. Following the lift, from roughly 12:45- 2:45, I moved from my handheld device over to my computer, alternating between streaming videos on youtube and completing homework assignments/ reading online. Following my work, I took some time off the computer to hop back on my phone and communicate with some friends through snapchat to determine when we wanted to go as a group to dinner. With only an hour and a half break for a much needed nap, I returned to my phone to follow up with my friends concerning dinner, upon which we decided to go at 6:30. Since the end of the nap at 5pm to dinner at 6:30pm, I returned to my computer to continue with minimal school work and maximum procrastination. During dinner I maybe checked my phone twice, but spent no significant time tapped into the internet. Following dinner, and two or three cups of coffee, I returned to my work on my computer on which I have spend the last 3 hours actively writing a paper, along with many other scholarly endeavors (ie reading, online quiz, etc.). Unfortunately, I foresee myself spending at least two more hours (at least) from this moment on continuing with my use of the internet for academic purposes. After mentally crunching some numbers, with a rough guess on how much longer I will be awake doing work, I calculated that I have spent roughly 12 of my 18 hours that I have been awake today, in some sense, on, or using the internet. What a day. Honestly, without the internet I have no earthly idea how I would stay up to date on both assignments for school and communication with coaches and friends. With the ease of access the internet offers, I can spend less time roaming from dorm to dorm, or to office hours, to have every little question I have answered. In terms of convenience, there is not many other outlets that enable such rapid communication and access to such a vast wealth of knowledge. Particularly in my own personal account, the plethora of information on the internet is both a gift and a curse in itself. One minute I am diligently researching a topic for a paper I have due in 24 hours, and the next I am neck deep in youtube or Netflix (this may be why I am posting so late). All in all though, the internet is honestly the one resource in college that I couldn’t make it without (though I know not so long before me this resource didn’t even exist).
