Connor Sullivan
The 24 hours in which I used all of my man power to refrain from using technology (aside from my school email and and alarm clock), proceeded to be more difficult than I thought. I thought it would be a cakewalk to just shut everything off and let it collect dust for a day. I closed the laptop, put the phone in a drawer and turned the TV off. I made it about 3 minutes before saying to myself: "dammit." The first issue was the immediate boredom that ensued. On a normal day I'll go through God knows how many episodes of The Office. Without that option I found myself thinking "OK this sucks, now what?" I quickly solved the problem by eating and taking a hefty nap. The next issue was when I spotted a squirrel eating out of the dumpster. As any intelligent human being would, my initial reaction was to update my facebook status about it. As this was not an option I frantically informed the nearest dorm-mate, who just looked at me and walked away. I don't think he would have liked that status. The final thing that made my day not as fun, was listening to all the little dings from my drawer. With each ding the temptation to check my text messages grew. What if it was important? It could be someone telling me I won the lottery. It could be some girl professing her secret love for me. This took all the strength I could muster to not check these life changing messages. Really though, it was just my friend telling me he ate 5 muffins at the dinning hall. I think the biggest thing I realized from this is how many stupid things I use technology for. Looking back I can't think of one intelligent thing i missed out on that day. It was very difficult to not succumb to the temptation though, especially at 10:30 when there is nothing to do. But through careful placement of naps and food, somehow I managed.
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