The other day I was talking to my mom and she told me she wanted to go back to school, but was afraid she wouldn't be caught up with the technology of it all. "What ever happened to just going to class and the professor telling you everything he needed to tell you there. I don't think I can always be on this email thing you are always doing."

I tried explaining to my mom that it wasn't as bad as it seemed. We use our emails to communicate to our teachers instead of having to go in to talk to them, but then it dawned on me that email was a difficult way to talk to someone. If my mother wanted to go back to school as an adult, she would not be on her phone as much as normal college aged students, yet she would still be expected to read every l email the moment it came in.

I thought back to the semester that one of my professors would email us in the middle on the night with items and articles to read FOR THE NEXT DAY, and half the time the students came in empty handed, yet got ridiculed for not receiving the email. How many times have we emailed teachers and have not gotten a response for at least two days, yet somehow I am expected to read every single email that is sent to me, even if it comes in at 3am on a Tuesday night? It makes no sense.

I began to see what my mother was talking about. We are required to be slaves to our phones as part of bettering our education. I know that when I am laying awake when my class is cancelled and I hear my email notification go off, I immediately go to my phone as if Zac Efron were calling me himself. It is a disgusting habit that is not mutual between both student and teacher. If my professors do not absolutely light up like a Christmas tree when they see an email from me, then neither will I.