This morning I flew into Galway, Ireland with 20+ undergraduates. So how did they spend their first afternoon in Ireland (and for most, their first afternoon in a foreign country)? Posting photos of their rooms on Facebook and skyping their families. Augh! Even one of my fellow faculty members reported, with a slightly wild look, how glad he was to have his internet connection restored after an unprecedented 26 hours with no way to contact family or friends. (Of course there were ways, as in public phones and the like, but such are not ways that anyone under 40 appears to recognize).
I am part of a dying breed. People who remember what it was like to be out of touch and on their own.
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