So what happens when 28 college students are told to give up technology—cell phones, iPods, television, and video games—for a five-day class assignment?
They all cave, that’s what. Well, all but two, an article in the Orlando Sentinel says.
And there was much wailing and gnashing of teeth.
Mary Ann Murdoch, an English-composition instructor at the University of Central Florida, allowed students to undertake the spartan challenge for extra credit. It seems that the overwhelming sentiment about the assignment can be summed up by one student:
“It’d be stupid and dumb to go back to the old ways,” Philip Rogero said. “Why should we inconvenience ourselves when it’s right there for us?” —Hurley Goodall
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