How did that go for me? Horrendous. I would catch myself checking ESPN at my internship or clicking the Facebook app on my phone. I'd be halfway through whatever thing I thought was oh-so-important to search, before I even realized what I was doing. Then I would sit there and think "Was that really that important?", ad of course it never was. But to sit down and think about how I couldn't go even one day without it, shocks me. I know I'm not alone in this dependancy; some students were pretty vocal about how they were not at all for WWW and couldnt imagine their life without the Web...even calling it Unrealistic.
The worst part about this, for me at least, was that at one point I had gone almost 6 six without the Web. I spent a month and a half studying abroad in Italy this summer, and the only time I used the computer was once a week to e-mail back home. I hand wrote all of my assignments, looked up references my textbooks instead of Googling them, etc. And you know what? It was awesome. I had no ideaw what the celebrity gossip was, what was going on in sports (I found out about George Steinbrenner's death through a phone call from my dad), or what drama was going on in the Facebook world. I also didn't have a TV in my apartment which was a new experience for me. I realized that I went outside more; explored the city I was living in and wasn't checking my phone every five minutes to see if I had a text. It felt like a giant burden had been lifted off my shoulders and after a week, I didnt even notice it anymore.
Which leads me to my question...if I could do it for six weeks, why was it so hard to do it for one more?
