The last final weeks of my Fall 2015 quarter at the University of California, Irvine
has been challenging. Each week has been a battle of it’s own. Plenty of distractions keep
me balanced from the workload at school. One particular device of distraction is my
mobile phone. I am removed from my friends and family and I’m very sociable in
general. So my mobile phone provides me with all the social interaction I want.
I usually bury myself in text messages with friends and interact on social media
sites like Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook. In text messages with friends we usually
exchange humorous pictures about pop-culture. With social media I use it to release my
creative expression outside of academics. Its also a place where …show more content…
I validate being on my mobile device too
much because I try to convince myself that it keeps me sane from being overstressed. In
addition, I came to Irvine not knowing. All my friends and family are in San Francisco or
El Paso. So my mobile phone is a big comfort because it connects me to those away from
me and current events. Sometimes I’m on my mobile phone and get lost mentally with all
the possibilities I can do with it but I lose plenty of time.
After reading your collection of poems in “My Wicked Wicked Ways”, I couldn’t
but to feel like one your poems was similar to my situation. The poem “Drought” felt a
lot like my situation with my mobile phone. You were in a battle of trying not to use the
phone. I’m sure its for different situations or reasons but the process in which you were
trying to keep the phone away from yourself is the same struggle I deal with.
In the poem’s mention you describe having to keep a distance between the
telephone and yourself. You mention that you physically place the phone on the opposite
side of the room, hoping that the buffer zone between you and the telephone will help
ease the urge. That’s exactly how I feel. I have to constantly to remind myself to keep
has been challenging. Each week has been a battle of it’s own. Plenty of distractions keep
me balanced from the workload at school. One particular device of distraction is my
mobile phone. I am removed from my friends and family and I’m very sociable in
general. So my mobile phone provides me with all the social interaction I want.
I usually bury myself in text messages with friends and interact on social media
sites like Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook. In text messages with friends we usually
exchange humorous pictures about pop-culture. With social media I use it to release my
creative expression outside of academics. Its also a place where …show more content…
I validate being on my mobile device too
much because I try to convince myself that it keeps me sane from being overstressed. In
addition, I came to Irvine not knowing. All my friends and family are in San Francisco or
El Paso. So my mobile phone is a big comfort because it connects me to those away from
me and current events. Sometimes I’m on my mobile phone and get lost mentally with all
the possibilities I can do with it but I lose plenty of time.
After reading your collection of poems in “My Wicked Wicked Ways”, I couldn’t
but to feel like one your poems was similar to my situation. The poem “Drought” felt a
lot like my situation with my mobile phone. You were in a battle of trying not to use the
phone. I’m sure its for different situations or reasons but the process in which you were
trying to keep the phone away from yourself is the same struggle I deal with.
In the poem’s mention you describe having to keep a distance between the
telephone and yourself. You mention that you physically place the phone on the opposite
side of the room, hoping that the buffer zone between you and the telephone will help
ease the urge. That’s exactly how I feel. I have to constantly to remind myself to keep