As we discussed Nicholas Carr’s novel The Shallows, us millennials came face to face with the fact that the internet has changed the way our minds work. There’s no way around it for the majority of us. It’s been decades now since we’ve taught ourselves information and successfully retained it. Now, we buy our information and ultimately gain nothing. I know I’m guilty of this. Not necessarily buying information to succeed, but doing research on material and getting my information from the internet rather than reading what I’m supposed to myself in order to learn. The sad thing is, I’m going to look back at my college years and realize I cheated myself of some valuable information and skills that I was privileged to consume and learn in the first place by taking the easy way out and doing the bare minimum. However, I did take happily take lots of notes in class on things I found interesting and I plan on holding onto my notebooks and looking back on the important history I was taught and what not to educate my peers. I really enjoy educating others, and I hope I can find it in myself in my last semester of college to get the most I can out of what’s left of my college career to educate myself and others. I found it especially interesting that a book is compared to a faucet and the internet is equivalent to multiple faucets as so much is going on at once and we’re constantly redirecting our attention to something else. We have a much shorter attention span, and I can say with certainty that many of us struggled to get through this book because of this. Oh, the irony…