Let me preface this rant by giving a brief explanation:
At my school, you are required to pass a "computer competency" test in order to take certain classes. It basically tests your knowledge of Microsoft Office programs and your computer in general. You have to score a 90% on all 5 exams.
That being said, these tests are impossible! I am completely incapable of passing a single one of these tests and let me tell you, it's not for lack of trying. The hours I have spent pouring over the tutorials and googling answers were to no avail because I failed every test multiple times. And the best part is, once you fail, they change the questions so you can't even go off of what you know. You have to go back to step one and pour over the tutorials and google all the answers only to fail again and wish computers had never been invented.
I have reached that point. I totally resent technology at this point in my life. I hate my phone and that it progresses faster than I can understand. I hate my computer because something new goes wrong everyday (my keyboard locked earlier and it took at least a half hour to figure out how to undo it).
Everything just feels so over complicated.
Sure, writing essays with a pen and paper would be horribly time consuming but they would save you the strife of accidentally not saving the file correctly and losing all of your work.
Staying connected via snail mail is just as rewarding if not more so than the social media platforms available to us currently.
Even this blog. I don't need to tell the internet how I feel; I could simply keep a diary for myself.
Technology is too much for me to handle. With Apple creating new iPhones and iPods and iDontKnows, and Microsoft updating Word every year, I just sit by waiting for one of these industrial dynamos to make a time machine so I can ship myself back to 1920, Midnight in Paris style.
Unfortunately, until that happens, I have to prove that I know the difference between an icon and shortcut (SPOILER ALERT: I don't).
Sincerely,
Mare
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