Hey, can you imagine how
crazy college would have been with MySpace? Even just cell phones? I
feel like we existed in some early dawn
of telnet and chat and fingering.
Not having any cell phones on campus made things quite serendipitous. You’d
just hang around someplace and run into people and randomly find things to do
or have long conversations. I miss that very much. Now you can just call
on campus and find anybody whenever. No more, oh I’ll just sit on Chapin beach and see who comes
by, maybe this person I’m
looking for will come by. No more let’s wander around on a Saturday
night and see who we run into and see what’s going on. Now
it’s all about making plans to meet certain people for lunch and dinner and
parties, etc. It seems so much more forced. I feel like everything
happened so naturally on campus. Maybe I’m just looking back
with rose-colored glasses. But seriously, even during our last reunion
(when they finally had the cell tower up and running) it was
kind of weird, because you could just call people and make
arrangements. It was like being in