I was reading some of Jen's earlier posts and I really could relate a lot to the one about "being envious of liberal arts majors" just because i have practically sat in front of this "motionless gray box" for such a long time these past few days...

The thing about being a non-liberal arts major...aka medicine or engineering....the two most popular ones..are that everything is so dependent on the computer..or the internet..pretty much you are hunting for docuemnts or graphics or something associatd with the computer....even though we get books its all very techinical and really just for reference....for instance this summer i took Digital Signal Processing and Digital Desing Lab..both of which required an immense amount of time on the computer...For DSP...practically all the documents (Hw's, practice quizzes, surveys, labs, prelabs, lectures....) were all online....and even the labs required MATLAB...so it was basically working with the computer all the time....for DDL ...all the labs required downloading from the Altera software to the circuit board...and even for lab turn-ins ("Hardcopies" - the techincal word for it)...we had to have a lot of "screen captures"...all of which needed the assistance of the computer in one way or another....

Its funny...our lives have become so dependent on computers...we rarely use any other piece of equipment as much...email..online chatting...school work..research...even online shopping has all turned to this "addictive" box ...that has really changed the shape of our lifestyle drastically...its funny when my parents talk about their forms of leisure when they were young...it usually invovled playing outside...or listening to the radio..or doing other things in the house...like playing card games and so on...i am sure by the time the next generation comes around...many of the things we have today will be a "thing of the past"...computers might be really different..and not so big..probably more like laptops and a lot smaller...they probably wont be as expensive and everyone will have fast internet access...i wonder how many things in the future will be..they probably wont even have printers or scanners..everything will be one "modern technological" unit that will have all the features we lack today into one module...hmm..its all very intersting...