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互联网时代的大学生活

1 The college campus, long a place of scholarship and frontiers of new technology, is being transformed into a newage of electronics by a fleet of laptops, smart phones and connectivity 24 hoursa day.

2 On a typical modern-day campus, whereevery building and most out door common are as offer wireless Internet access,one student takes her laptop everywhere. In class, she takes notes with it,sometimes instant-messaging or emailing friends if the professor is less than interesting. In her dorm, she instant-messages her roommate sitting just a fewfeet away. She is tied to her smartphone, which she even uses to text a friend who lives one floor above her, and which supplies music for walks between classes.

3 Welcome to college life in the 21stcentury, where students on campus are electronically linked to each other, toprofessors and to their classwork 24 / 7 in an ever-flowing river of information and communication. With many schools offering wireless Internet access anywhere on campus, colleges as a group have become the most Internet accessible spots in the world.

4 Students say they really value their fingertip-access to the boundless amount of information online, and the ability to email professors at 2 a.m. and receive responses the next morning. "Ialways feel like I have a means of communication – in class and out of class,"says one engineering major.

5 Many are using smartphones, not only tocreate their own dialects when texting, but also to do more serious work, suchas practicing foreign languages and analyzing scripts from their theaterclasses. In a university class on the history of American radio, students use smartphones to record their own radio shows. The course instructor said,"It's adding to students' sense of excitement about the subject."Professors have been encouraged to tape their lectures and post them online."We realized there might be some potential for a device that could getattention and encourage sophisticated thinking," says one leading universitydirector.

6 For most undergraduates, non-stopInternet connectivity is the fuel of college life. More than just toys, these instruments are powerful tools for the storage and management of virtually every kind of information. And as more people around the world adopt these instruments, they are becoming indispensable. So, students should use the wonders of the Internet to do homework, review lecture outlines, take part in class discussions and network online with their friends. But in doing so,students must remember to regulate and balance their time. Too much time online can mean too little time in real-life studying or exercising or visiting with friends. Students should not let the Internet world on their computer screenstake them away from the real world outside.

7 Colleges began embracing Internet accessin the mid-1990s, when many began wiring dorms with high-speed connections. Inthe past few years, schools have taken

U3 A College life in the Internet age

U3 A College life in the Internet age

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