Thursday, 30 October 2014

'Wasting Time on the Internet' Is Now An Actual College Class

Next semester at the University of Pennsylvania, students will walk into a classroom, pull out their laptops, their smartphones, their tablets, and sit there, for three hours, doing what they no doubt do pretty often: Waste time on the internet.

The Ivy League school's newest creative writing class is trying to remove the stigma from an activity that millions of people do on a daily basis, in an attempt to explore how our minds might work when we're totally aimlessly clicking through reddit or Facebook or Buzzfeed or watching porn or doing whatever the hell people do in their free time. Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/30/wasting-time-on-the-internet_n_6074618.html?utm_hp_ref=weird-news&ir=Weird+News

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