Every morning when I wake up, I walk over to the desk that sits in my room. Once sitting at this desk, I proceed to lift the top off of a small, white rectangle. When this rectangle is opened, there sits before me eighty smaller rectangles, and a large rectangle with a picture on it. I slide my index finger around one of the rectangles, which moves an arrow around on the picture in front of me. When I move the arrow downward, pictures pop up from the bottom of the large rectangle. As I click the picture that looks like a compass, my screen changes. Now the picture of the Baltimore Ravens is gone. It has been replaced by a white and red picture with blanks that ask me to fill in a “username” and “password.” I fill in these word blanks and the picture changes again. Now I run my arrow over words at the top of this new picture and push in on a long rectangle button. Once the picture has changed again, I can now look at pictures from my friend’s rectangular contraptions and see if they have “written” anything for me to read. The pictures that can enter my rectangle are endless and ever-changing but I believe they serve a worthy purpose: to allow college students a distraction from tedious homework assignments.
