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This past week our internet was down for quite some time. Unfortunately it was down right around the time of my Latinitas article submission and a scholarship I was applying for. I figured everything out, but there was a lot of complaining on my behalf.
I just never realized how much of a necessity the internet was in my life. It's weird to refer to it as a "necessity" too, but it's true. I use it for everything. My homework, my contacts, my writing, everything! It's all on the internet and it was incredibly hard to adjust to making everything work without it. I mean, in some cases it was easy, I just had to start doing my math homework out of the textbook rather than online, but when it came time to submitting scholarship information or my Latinitas article--I was lost! I felt so incredibly pathetic! I felt spoiled. I felt snobby. I felt awful. How in the world had I become to dependent on something so just...aah!
I mean, to be fair my scholarship and article were both things that had to be done online so I had the right to be frustrated with the lack of internet and lost, but regardless. I cannot figure out how my dependency got a little crazy.
Is anyone else like this?
What's something you've realize has become a necessity in your life?
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Comment by Jasmine Villa on October 30, 2012 at 2:26pm -
I have no shame in admitting that I cannot function without the internet. I work two jobs that heavily depend on the internet. From research to e-mails, I have to stay connected. I'm always answering e-mails and when I don't check my e-mail I have close to 30-60 unread e-mails. To top it off, I'm currently taking an online course and my other classes require online discussion posts. If I wasn't involved with so many things I could probable be okay without the internet, but it's the lifeline for everything that I do. I was miserable and it lasted for two weeks! Grades were due, I had YEAB tasks to fulfill, homework, and, to top it off, I had a group assignment that I needed to work on. Horrible!
My internet is back, but my wi-fi isn't working. The company wants to charge us an additional $5 a month and charge a $40 activation fee. Seriously? Wi-fi was working fine, then the internet was out FOR TWO WEEKS, and now that it's fixed they want more money out of us? It's frustrating. Funny thing.... I'm not ashamed about my dependency on the internet, but I am ashamed by my overt dependency on my laptop. The desktop works fine, but I hate working on it. Sadly, if I want to use the internet I have to use the desktop. I prefer my laptop, but, for the time being, until this feud with the internet/cable company gets resolved, I will have to make work with what I have, because I am stubborn and don't want to shell out an additional $45 this month just to fix a problem that was working fine last month!!!
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