The iPad. First off, who named this? I don't think it's a great name for what one guy standing next to me as we were testing them out called, "the world's largest iPhone." Indeed it is. And one thing I noticed is it encourages horrible typing skills. Sorry to all you keyboard and typing instructors. We will be now using our thumbs and pointer fingers to type. Goodbye typing skills. But, on the other hand, web browsing is super fast, unlike the iPhone. Be careful though. I accidently zoomed in on my email list and deleted an entire page. If you're commonly referred to as klutzy, clumsy, or a butterfinger, KEEP AWAY.
Technology. Ok, ok. I'm 20 years old and I can't exactly be the one to say "technology these days! My goodness!" But I'm going to anyway. Sitting behind a woman during church, the pastor begins to quote a Bible verse and she whips out her iPhone and diligently taps on the Bible app and goes straight to it. So I've been living in this 21st century too, but can we just take a step back and look at ourselves? Who would have ever thought this would be possible? You can turn your lights off in your home from miles and miles away with your PHONE. You can turn on Shazaam when you hear a cool new song playing and it tells you what that song is. WOW.
Microwaves. Has anyone ever sat and thought: why is a microwave called a microwave? Well I did the other day. And it makes sense, it just seems to be such an explicit definition of what the appliance is, such a formal name. Why not "the food zapper"? This is stupid, I'm going to stop.
Paddleboarding. Never heard of it? It's a water sport using a surf board and a paddle. You stand up on the board facing forwards with both feet and paddle yourself around. It's an awesome workout for your whole body and you feel like you're walking on water. Just a Hawaii thing? Just for the ocean? Nope, the Blankenship family has started a new trend on Lake Austin. Atleast, I'd like to think so.
College. You know, it's funny what some "college students" seem to make of their 4, sometimes 5 years at school. Yes, I said school, but some choose to take a different route. Why pay tons of money to go to a school like SMU (although, as I said, we pay more than Yale, but clearly don't make the academic cut like Yale does.) if you're just going to party every single day and groggily make it through class on your good days and just make poor grades. What's the point. Please. Feel free to comment. And don't think I'm saying I don't like to have a good time. Because I do. I'm not trying to preach here, just really thinking about why you would waste your time!
..I'm out.
The real point of college isn't all the material you learn because you will forget a lot if not most within a few years, it is to test and perfect your time management skills and a good work ethic. Employers will teach you what you really need to know and you can't "learn experience" at school.
ReplyDeleteThat is absolutely true. But wasting away your life partying everyday through college won't allow you to learn time management, nor a good work ethic. Lucky for us, we learned those 2 things in high school.
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