At the beginning of this year, I made a pact with myself to entirely discontinue my internet and computer usage, for all of 2010. This vow was made two weeks before I came to college, and was immersed in a system entirely dependent on the use of just the things I decided to remove from my life. I knew my ideals we just a bit lofty to begin with, but alas I tried, and successfully did not use a computer for a whole five days, before feeling a primordial need to find a noodle recipe on the internets.
Now, three weeks later, I have found that I did somehow succeed in my original goal of lessening my dependence on the internet, but alas, I give more credit to my environment than to my own will power. There is barely enough time in my schedule to sleep, let alone swim around for hours in the sea of silly, often useless information known as the internet. However, it has been entirely impossible for me to divorce academia and the internet, being that many assignments are hosted entirely online, professors choose to communicate exclusively through e-mail, and even my time-cards for work must be submitted electronically.
So, not even six weeks in to my attempted year of electronic exile, I am writing a blog. First of all, because I am experiencing a lot of stories that need to be told, and secondly, because I feel like I need to write some of my thoughts down to help me to better process all of the garbage floating around in my brain. Essentially, I am a rather strange person, going to a rather strange school, with rather strange ideals and goals for the next few years. I hope that this mutual experience of my journey, between me writing it and you reading it will show a bit of a better picture of what that means. For now though, I have some Essays on Feminism to read, some Chemical interactions to understand, and some stolen bread to bake (more on this later), so I shall bid you ado.
