The Important Things In Life

As time passes, you grow and take time to realize the important things in life. Those things are very subjective, however, and depend greatly upon the environment in which you grew up.

As a female college student the important things in life are discussed on an almost hourly basis; boys, the internet, and school. The important things in life must be the subjects that everyone talks about and the ones that bond you together with your peers. Nowadays, however, most of the bonding takes place over the internet and most of the discussing occurs through Facebook.

The alarm goes off an hour before I should be in class. The sun is already up both because it is winter so the sun rises earlier, and my classes do not start as early as a normal adult work day would. Before classes I eat breakfast and have to get my morning fix of the web.

I open the internet and have my homepage set to the WKU home site. This is, of course, for the purpose of saving the 5 seconds it takes to type in the address. I log on and check my e-mail looking for last minute assignment changes from teachers. I also check Facebook for any changes that might have occurred from 11:58, two whole minutes before I went to bed, and when I woke up. How ignorant do you look when you walk into class and your friend asks if you got her bumper sticker she sent you, or about the party on Friday, all information received via Facebook?
Usually, Facebook consumes more time than I allotted and I rush up the hill to get to my class on time. After class gets out, it is back down to the dorm for more surfing.

No one does homework midday right after classes, but many people Facebook. Interesting how a noun when used in everyday life can become a verb. So I arrive at the dorm, fix lunch, and sit down at the computer for a midday supplement of browsing. I check Facebook for some news, if nothing extreme has changed I don’t have time- sensitive responses needed. This frees up time to check other sites such as “Addicting Games” or even for me, “Webkinz.” Both of these are sites on which you can, yet again, occupy your time with useless, fun games.

After my fix of games and continuous checking of Facebook, I log on AIM so I can constantly be connected with friends while I take a break from browsing to complete my homework for the day. I make sure and check my WKU e-mail and compose a few messages myself to stay on top of all academic and extracurricular activities.

By the end of the day I have checked my WKU mail 50+ times, sent a few out myself, checked my real e-mail once, if that, been on Facebook almost constantly except during class, and taken some time to play games.

This is all done while texting friends throughout the day, both in and out of class.

This helps put into perspective the important things in life does it not…