Week 9 - daily frustrations of a fictional neo-luddite at uni

Clare awakens to the light bursting through the window and the soft vibrations through the walls and floor of her fellow flatmates bursting the latest Justin Timberlake tunes through ther i-pods. She picks up her watch from her bedside table and is suddenly thankful for her flatmates loud music as she has to be in the library in 20 minutes for a group meeting. As she gets dressed she scribbles 'batteries' on a fresh page of a notebook to replace the obviously dead ones in her old alarm clock.

As she walks through the student village she is surrounded by students, nearly all with white headphones coming out of their ears, a mobile phone pressed against their ears, or the odd few typing furiously on their mobiles.

As she enters the library she is held up by a girl in front who is passing through the turnstyle very slowly as she is so busy concentrating on typing her text message. When Clare finally joins her group they all agree to show eachother the work they have completed individually so far. The other 3 girls all pull USB sticks out of their bag and connect to the computers, Clare produces a notebook. The girls ask where she has saved her work. Clare nervously opens up her notebook and displays the neat notes and diagrams she had spent hours the previous night working on. The girls snigger and all gather round one computer to start compiling the information.

Clare cannot concentrate and is put off by everyone around her speaking on the phone, texting, listening to their ipods loudly, watching funny Youtube clips or laughing about pictures/comments on Facebook.
As the girls quickly complete a diagram on the computer, exactly the same as the one in Clare's notebook but much more professional looking, Clare wonders how she will ever fit in with all these technology obsessed students.