2008 Woodie Awards
Delta website not what most expected it to be
Individual e-mail accounts complicates learning
Crystal Childress
Issue date: 10/1/04 Section: Opinion
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How much more are people going to rely on the Internet? "Check your student e-mail," is often heard at Delta College. That's just one more thing students have to worry about.
Nothing comes in the mail anymore. If you call Delta College's administration or Financial Aid Office for information, one of the first things they ask is have you checked your e-mail account.
Some students simply just don't have the time. Some students don't even have computers. That's when students are told there are many places on campus that you can check your e-mail. Who has time for that?
Let's face it, time is precious, right? Students have classes, homework and for those who don't have jobs, there are always chores. Then there has to be time for eating and showering and getting ready for the next day.
Where in there do students have time to sit down, turn on a computer, wait for it to warm up, click on the Internet icon, type in a password (if you have one), type in Delta College's website, wait for that to pop up, then go through all the links to get to the e-mail account, then there's more typing to do.
After students have their e-mail account in front of them, there's not much to check.
I was told to check my e-mail frequently by an instructor. I went home and checked it when I could have been in bed.
There was nothing in it. So I let it go for two weeks without checking it again. When I checked it after a period of two weeks, there was still nothing.
Sometimes I think people get lazy. Is it too much to type up a letter, put it in an addressed envelope, lick it, place the stamp on it and mail it?
I personally am too busy to check my e-mail. I have school, a family, a house to run, and on some weekends I'm busy doing church-related things.
I check my mail every day because as I said, I have a house, and everyone knows along with a house come bills. Bills are not sent on-line, they are sent in the MAIL!!!
I think people should stop being lazy and mail things out. What's the use of having an e-mail account if there's nothing there?
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Nothing comes in the mail anymore. If you call Delta College's administration or Financial Aid Office for information, one of the first things they ask is have you checked your e-mail account.
Some students simply just don't have the time. Some students don't even have computers. That's when students are told there are many places on campus that you can check your e-mail. Who has time for that?
Let's face it, time is precious, right? Students have classes, homework and for those who don't have jobs, there are always chores. Then there has to be time for eating and showering and getting ready for the next day.
Where in there do students have time to sit down, turn on a computer, wait for it to warm up, click on the Internet icon, type in a password (if you have one), type in Delta College's website, wait for that to pop up, then go through all the links to get to the e-mail account, then there's more typing to do.
After students have their e-mail account in front of them, there's not much to check.
I was told to check my e-mail frequently by an instructor. I went home and checked it when I could have been in bed.
There was nothing in it. So I let it go for two weeks without checking it again. When I checked it after a period of two weeks, there was still nothing.
Sometimes I think people get lazy. Is it too much to type up a letter, put it in an addressed envelope, lick it, place the stamp on it and mail it?
I personally am too busy to check my e-mail. I have school, a family, a house to run, and on some weekends I'm busy doing church-related things.
I check my mail every day because as I said, I have a house, and everyone knows along with a house come bills. Bills are not sent on-line, they are sent in the MAIL!!!
I think people should stop being lazy and mail things out. What's the use of having an e-mail account if there's nothing there?
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