in other news....

dear world wide web,

At some point in the semester, my Press in America class talked about today's society and the fact that nothing is relevant to anything else. Everything we do is segmented; nothing is continuous. I began to think about this and realize that it is not just the media that does this. The media has affected my brain so much that I have trouble continuing a thought process as I leave one classroom and go to another.

I find myself thinking about all of these wonderful things in class; and I really get it and for the time being, I am thinking really deeply. I am making connections and thoroughly enjoy what I am hearing and thinking about. This is when I started to write down what I was thinking while I was in class.

Because as soon as the class is over, the thought process comes to a halt. I leave the classroom and it is like the hour and fifteen minutes I spent contemplating my life and role in society, the direction society is moving in general, never happened.

I will make a list of things to do. The list may include e-mailing a professor about an assignment, or asking what time a club I want to join meets. And so I sit down at the computer to do it because at that moment, my thought process consists of my to do list and only my to do list.

When I walk away from the computer, I forget what I literally typed five minutes ago. I may get a reply the same day, and I will sit down and read it. After I read it, I don't act upon what I just read because I am so used to segmenting everything. I am reading a reply. But then I'll walk away from the computer and not act upon what I just read.

This really and truly is crazy and probably the most unproductive thing ever. I am lucky that I took a class that revealed this to me because if it happens to me, it most likely is happening to other people to. However, I am aware of it now, so I can take the time to concentrate on what I am doing and get my brain to function the way it is supposed to. But what happens to everyone else?

Kiersten