Computer Science Class
My sophomore year of college I took computer science. It is a required class, so you can bet that if it wasn't I wouldn't have taken it. I hate technology. Well, I don't hate it, because it allows me to talk to my friends, listen to my music, email and check my bank statements in like 5 seconds, but I hate dealing with it. I always have problems with my phone or my computer or my iPod, and I never know how to fix them. I thought taking this class would make me more familiar with laptops, since there were a whole 2 chapters and a test on them (which I got an A on). But it never seems the same when you are dealing with a real life problem as it does when you are doing examples from a text book and it tells you to hit control, alt, delete. That sequence doesn't always work in real life (or at least not for me, who ever really knows what the computer is thinking.
Something else I have never understood is the television and DVD player. Honest to God, I still call it VHS (and I'm not even old). My roommate just got a new TV and the other day she was telling me something about how in color lcds, each pixel is divided or something. I had no idea what she was talking about. I can barely even turn the TV on (which is sad I know). But never ask me to work the DVD player. If I am ever at home by myself, I can't watch a movie because I seriously do not understand how to change the TV over to DVD or how to hook it up. I guess it is probably because someone else will always do it for me (mostly because I get really frustrated), but I really never had to do it and now I just don't have any desire to.
Don't get me wrong, I love the fact that we are a society based upon technology. I can get by and I'm actually pretty good with the internet and school related projects that need to be done on the computer, I'm not a total dummy, but it something were to go wrong, I probably would not be able to fix it or even know where to start. Maybe I should have paid more attention in that computer science class.