Spring break is here and so are midterms. Now is the time to look back at the first half of the semester and see how we have done and where we need to get better.
As semesters pass and years go by, we let the simple things in life pass us by.
We take one test and assignment at a time while balancing the fragile social lives that we try to keep.
Social lives today have become ever so fragile.
The way of communicating from one to another has gone beyond the face-to-face conversation. Words on a screen, whether it be the latest smartphone, a Facebook wall and a simple Tweet have only made things worse.
Yet they break over and over and over again.
People can say things and a simple click without even knowing it can ruin someone’s life a thousand miles away, but it doesn’t seem to feel as bad as if it was done face-to-face.
Now to solve the issue is often impossible as the conversation will be replied to with a few more clicks and soon one can never leave the page or post another Tweet or even communicate in real life.
When The Minaret interviewed Jane Castor when she first took over as Tampa’s Police Chief last fall, her advice wasn’t as simple as stay out of trouble.
It was to watch what we do online, on our phones and to exercise good judgment in everything that we do.
Although drugs and the usual criminal activities continue to pervade our community it is the next generation of cybercrime that is soon to be culprit or what we put online that will cause us problems down the road.
As we leave for Spring Break, we must know that we have been warned and we need to watch what pictures go on Facebook because they will come back to haunt us.
The relationships kindled in person need to be cherished, those on Facebook need to be taken with a grain of salt.
College students are the future. What will matter to us is really unknown. How will we care and what will we care about?
If the trend continues where things online become more real than in person, we will reach a point where we can no longer trust anyone at anytime, anywhere.
It surrounds our life and people cannot help but to be sucked into the problems that it causes.
As college students, we have lost the very reason for being at a place of higher education.
Things like Facebook and Twitter are not helping our G.P.A.s.
Sure there are some good things that come out of these things, but more often than not they will hurt in the long run.
