The alarm on my cell phone went off too early this morning, as I hit the screen and see the digital read out on my serene Hawaiian backdrop as it reads out clearly 5:45a.m. Oh God! I have to get ready for school once again. It’s Wednesday morning already. Where did the time go! I never got around to finishing up that Economics project that I really needed for extra points so that I can stay above water in the class. The setting for this story is my Senior year, 2015. It’s fall and the school year had just begun. The transition from Summer break in Hawaii back to the grind has not been an easy one. If it wasn’t for my passion for Call of Duty and those double XP points, I may have actually worked on that Econ project. Life is a distraction for me now.
How many electronics does one person need before it consumes all their time? How easy is it for technology to misdirect our focus as to why we have technology in the first place? With our day in age of …show more content…
It’s 7:25a.m. and the warning bell has just rung. I look around and ask someone close to me if they finished their project. They answered, “No guy, I was up all night on the phone with my girlfriend.” My day in the life of Jesse Taylor, high school senior. The story continues like this; I get to class on time and without my project in hand. As it turns out neither did most of the class. Redemption! My teacher has given us under-achievers a second chance to score some extra points, if we can clutch our way to a completed project by the end of the day. Yeah, you know I can! Using my tablet and the internet for some quick research, I am able to complete 22 power point slides on the use of personification in marketing. I was lucky enough to find all the information that I needed on one very reliable website. Not only did I get it done in time, I got full credit along with kudos from the teacher on what a good presentation it
How many electronics does one person need before it consumes all their time? How easy is it for technology to misdirect our focus as to why we have technology in the first place? With our day in age of …show more content…
It’s 7:25a.m. and the warning bell has just rung. I look around and ask someone close to me if they finished their project. They answered, “No guy, I was up all night on the phone with my girlfriend.” My day in the life of Jesse Taylor, high school senior. The story continues like this; I get to class on time and without my project in hand. As it turns out neither did most of the class. Redemption! My teacher has given us under-achievers a second chance to score some extra points, if we can clutch our way to a completed project by the end of the day. Yeah, you know I can! Using my tablet and the internet for some quick research, I am able to complete 22 power point slides on the use of personification in marketing. I was lucky enough to find all the information that I needed on one very reliable website. Not only did I get it done in time, I got full credit along with kudos from the teacher on what a good presentation it