"WAKE UP, WAKE UP, WAKE UP" bethany's mum calls from the kitchen... "Your 15 minutes late"
"Dam it" said beth. She didnt know how to set her alarm clock! It was leaving day, Beth was leaving for University. Her flight for East Midlands left in less than an hour, but it was ok, beth felt cool, prepared and ready for this big adventure. There was only one thing that was niggling away in the back of her mind...... She'd never flown on her own before.
DISH.... DASH ... "oh excuse me......... please move.... uhhh wheres check in for East Midlands, anyone... "
"Grrrr humph, get outta my way love, read the screen!!!" said a heavily bearded man.
Beth reached her departure gate, and shifted threw her bag for her flight tickets. She hands them to the the smiling lady behind the desk. Slowly her smile disappears and she says, "Am sorry dear, you were suppose to check in online with these tickets"
Beth signs ands says, "But I don't know how" the lady unsympathetically says "Well it'll cost £5 each way to book in here."
Once in East Midlands airport, beth spends an hour waiting on bus, she could have spent ten minutes if she'd looked up the times on the internet before she left!
The rest of her journey wasnt much better!
Beth arrives at on Lincoln Campus, surrounded by hundreds of freshers, carrying bags and suitcases she stands clueless in the middle of the car park. Lincoln University's website provides all the information of where and when beth had to be at her accomodation, but she'd missed out on that because she was too busy writing a letter to her aunt margret.
A fresh faced student approaches beth, " hi, are you ok there?"
"Am looking for my accomodation" says Beth with a hopeful look that some one might actually know what she's suppose to be doing.
The young girl, named Jenny, looks up beths details and takes her to her new room, " There you go, sort your things out, and heres a few leaflets. "Heres one on the Uni, however this one (she hands a yellow form to beth) is important, it gives you all the information and log in details of how to set up your internet, and also i need you to email me over your inventory after you've checked out your room" And then she left!
"Oh shit" thought Beth!! There was internet cables, TV cables, sockets in the wall with round holes and square holes, all this information on sheet saying something about:
"www." and windows set up, transfer your settings, use the numbers 78384738 and XYZ"
ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Theres a knock on the door, it's jenny.. " Oh and you'll find your Uni Timetable on student portal"
" The student what??
I need mum, beth thought! And headed out to look for a pay phone. No she didnt have a moblie.
Beth missed lectures, lost out on nights out, became out of touch with her family and ended up a social outcast.
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This is a really interesting approach to tackle this question and though completely different to what I expected I loved reading it because it was refreshing to read something different and story-like. Honestly can you imagine anyone being a neo-luddite at university? Personally I think it would be very lonely and isolating and can seriously harm ones identity because they can be misunderstood.
ReplyDeleteTo be honest i think in this day and age its very unlikely with the amount of digital technology around. The only likely hood of this to happen is for a mature student in todays world to have this difficultly. However by the year 2020 mature students attending university are going to be pretty savvy on technology because their most likely going to have grown up it and worked along side of it.
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