Journal #7

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Taking My Son to College, Where Technology Has Replaced Serendipity
Going to college is a big step in everyone’s life. The anxiety of this new life and the eagerness to learn new things is inevitable. No one is ever well prepared for this kind of change. The challenge of fitting in or even as simple as getting your footing is tremendous for everyone. Trying to make new friends or trying to understand people of a different culture is a common problem. College brings with it the burden of being an adult and takes you away from the comfort of your home. It represents an end and a beginning of a new chapter in everyone’s life. Young and old are presented with the same challenges the only difference being ways to tackle them.
Hayden was going to have a much easier time than his mother when navigating through campus. Technology makes all things more manageable by eliminating the need for personal interaction and offers the convenience of doing most things just by one click (Rosa and Paul 498). However, the parents don’t understand the pressure of having the technology. The assumption that just because you can access anything by a click of a button makes everything easier is just unreal. The burden of being at your best lest critical information is leaked. The loneliness that comes with the technology is something the older generation will never have to experience. Today’s problem may not be how to get the information but to know which one is right.

In conclusion, it is true that technology is making things easier for this generation, but it is the same technology posing as the greatest threat. The pressure of growing up in this generation or the older generation has not changed.

Works Cited.
Rosa, Alfred F., and Paul A. Eschholz. Models for writers: Short essays for composition. St. Martin’s Press, 1992.