As a now-ancient technology, typewriters have been replaced by more powerful word processors. Last fall though, I stumbled upon a typewriter in my sister’s room and learned a few valuable lessons.
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Typewriters
1 May 2008
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Distractions
1 May 2008It’s sad how distracted people can get with technology. I’m sitting at a Caribou Coffee writing a paper for a class, and this girl in front of me is texting/emailing constantly via her Blackberry and her Sidekick. Meanwhile, her books just sit untouched.
Ironically, I too had to take a break from my paper to write this post :)
Update: all that texting has worn her out, she just put her head down to take a nap.
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Pen Colors
1 May 2008On any given day, I keep about 4-5 different color pens in my bag. Since I take notes in my book, I like having visual cues based on the color that I write. For example, anything that a professor points out in class is written in red. Everything that I write as I’m going through the material is written in purple. That way, at a later point when I’m going through my material, I’ll be able to quickly know what my professor has pointed out and what I’ve written. This is especially useful when I’m using pre-owned books that have a lot of writing in them. One semester, I made the mistake of thinking that I could just remember which marks I made and which marks were from someone else (we both used black ink). Haha. After that, I decided to start writing everything in purple in pre-owned books. It’s not a common color for people to use to mark up books, and it’s not as in your face as hot pink. As a result, I can always know which annotations I made.
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