Memoir on 'A Hunt For Information'- by Heather Cameron - January 3, 2012

After helping a dear Facebook friend find some information pertinent to her writing, I am going to give a very brief, yet very detailed memoir on a memory that was triggered by this impromptu search for information...

The whole hunt for the information brought back memories of Introduction to Reporting class in college taught by a very skilled professor named D'Arcy Kavanagh; the class would be given a set of questions and a time limit to find the answers using whatever resources they could...sometimes we weren't allowed to use the Internet, which made it interesting....of COURSE there was confusion and borderline chaos in this hunt, but that made it more FUN!

What's even more interesting is that I didn't even really USE the internet for education purposes until 2005; I just used the offline parts of the computer for assignments along with notebooks, textbooks, paper, and pen....

I didn't even have access to a computer until I was 10 years old and didn't use them in school until I was 13/14....it's amazing how easy it is to find information these days on the Internet; I think a lot of people take for granted that the Internet makes accessing information so easy...

I don't use the Internet everywhere I go, as it's NOT everywhere...I am a writing professional like AmyBeth and I only lug my laptop on trips (it's HEAVY after a while) because of my love of writing and the ideas I get on trips for current/future projects...

Yes, I use the internet for terminology, emails, promotion, and information seeking, as well as daily devotionals...but I wouldn't die if I didn't have it at home (as McDonald's and other public places have it) and information is accessible in other ways and I can do devotionals and have them in storage for several days if needed....I've done it before.

I guess the relevance to this little spiel is that people should be grateful and not take for granted the advances in technology or boast about it excessively, as some places are not as technologically advanced, but they are still wonderful places to visit where wonderful people reside and where wonderful learning experiences can materialize...