My Generation...

I use the internet for many different things: checking up on my facebook account, checking my e-mail, making sure my class starts at noon and not one, even looking up who played McLovin off the movie Superbad. All of these things I have become adept at because I use them on a regular basis. However, if anyone were to ask me to look up an online journal or article, I would respond as if they had just asked me to do long division.

When at long last I found the article and read it, it became very clear that it is not just me facing these problems, but a vast majority of students. Growing up with a computer in my living room, I never had to leave the house to know the answer to a question, it was always a simple point-and-click away, and I am sure that a vast majority of the students in this class also grew up with Windows 98; infinite knowledge at one's fingertips. This has been both a blessing and a curse to our generation. There's an old saying, "lessons come from the journey, not the destination" or something along those lines. I can't help but think that because our generation can find information so quickly, it almost makes the information we find less important or less significant, as apposed to information that takes time and experience to learn. I can ask you how tall the Empire State Building is and you may tell me 102 stories, but until you take the elevator ride to the top observation deck and look down at the big apple, you have no idea how tall it really is.