![The Internet: Dissolving Our Minds](https://blogs.uakron.edu/firstyearvoices/wp-content/uploads/sites/862/2013/09/Teen_girl_texting_close-up.jpg?w=470&h=140&crop=1)
by Katie Constantine Nicholas Carr’s essay “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” is a shocking eye opener for frequent internet users. Carr explores his own problem…
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by Hannah Stewart In Nicholas Carr’s essay “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” he makes the stipulation that the internet is “tinkering with [his] brain, remapping…
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by Amanda Revesz As most children mature into adulthood, they use the influences around them to learn about the social norms. These social cues may…
![Lost because of Technology](https://blogs.uakron.edu/firstyearvoices/wp-content/uploads/sites/862/2013/09/GPS.jpg?w=470&h=140&crop=1)
by Victoria Jackson For some people, technology is oxygen; they can’t breathe without it. For me, it’s the Titanic. It seems extravagant, luxurious, and can…
![The Dark Yet Informative Side of the Internet: An Exploration](https://blogs.uakron.edu/firstyearvoices/wp-content/uploads/sites/862/2013/09/Computer_Lab.jpg?w=470&h=140&crop=1)
by Hannah Stewart Wikipedia—a site more commonly referred to as: “I don’t want to see this cited in your paper.” We’ve all heard the academic…
![The Power of a Piece of Plastic](https://blogs.uakron.edu/firstyearvoices/wp-content/uploads/sites/862/2013/10/Credit_card_memorial.jpg?w=470&h=140&crop=1)
by Mackenzie Vaclav “Welcome to the University of Akron!” Signs were everywhere on campus welcoming the freshmen class of 2016. Leaving the safe haven of my…
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by Kamryn Lorenzen It was an average day at the rink. I came in like any other day. I was going to work with my…
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by Amanda Revesz Has the accessibility of limitless information from the internet changed the way we read and write? In “Is Google Making Us Stupid?”…
![Wikipedia: Can It Be Trusted?](https://blogs.uakron.edu/firstyearvoices/wp-content/uploads/sites/862/2013/10/EncycBrit1913.jpg?w=397&h=140&crop=1)
by Katie Constantine If I learned one thing in high school that will stick with me through my academic career it is to avoid Wikipedia…
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by Spencer DeVeau The gym, or “my second home,” as 19 year old John Selzer called it with an exasperated grunt, reeked of sweat and…