The Internet has come a long way, hasn’t it? It’s gone from being a luxury in its early days to now being a necessity for almost all ages. You need it to, at the most basic levels, keep up with work emails (although odds are your involvement with the internet at work stretches far beyond ‘to’s’ and ‘from’s’). If you’re in school, you will need the Internet for almost everything including for email updates from the school (which kept me up-to-date on closures during our recent bout with Hurricane Sandy), blackboard to keep up with professor updates, and even to do required homework or readings. I grew up with the Internet, which isn’t to say I’ve had it since I was born, but rather it has changed and grown as much as I have in the last 20 years. All the way up to high school the Internet was only a suggested tool for research projects and papers. Most of the time I spent on the Internet was wasted away chatting with friends and playing games that took what felt like centuries to load. Now at the college level I find my time spent on the Internet is almost split in half between productivity and time wasted. The Internet has managed to help many students throughout college, but has also been the biggest factor in student procrastination. But that’s just the Internet’s MO. Loved and hated simultaneously all over the world, especially by me. Not a day passes by where I don’t praise the internet, but that same day will involve me denouncing it for its ‘endless power’. A love/hate story that has been going on for a couple of years now, and doesn’t look like it’s letting up any time soon.