It's about Time

It’s kind of a novel feeling to sit down in your dorm room over some easy mac and read the paper. I’d like to thank Prof. Leake for assigning our class to read the New York Times; it has changed my mind about reading the news. I never paid much attention to the news before. I thought it would be a chore to keep up on the daily news, to sit down and read through an entire newspaper. I guess I never realized you didn’t have to read everything (kind of a silly thought I know), you can pick and choose. And I have even come around to online news sites; even though they may still be killing print, they are very convenient. I’ve gotten into the habit of stopping at nytime.com after checking Facebook and my email. Regardless, when I pick up a newspaper, especially the Times, I know I’m holding something of substance that I can look through and educate myself on multiple subjects. That is pretty cool.

I’m not at news buff status yet where I will read any and all articles just for their merit. I read those that interest me. Over the past few weeks, I’ve read articles about Amazon and the Kindle, a boy with F.A.S.D. who got an assisting dog, that movie with Daniel Radcliffe in it, a monument they want to build in Germany to a polar bear who was abandoned and lived, and Mark Zuckerberg to name a few. Just this morning I read articles about Wolfram Alpha, and pilot safety training for naval pilots. I seem to find the human interest stories and those that I can connect with. When I see a headline with Facebook or certain magical celebrities in it there is definitely a higher probability I’ll end up reading the article.

I also read the occasional political op-ed and more pressing national news, but not as often. I hope to get to the point where I’ll find the International pages interesting, but as of now I just flip through them. If I understood more of the background of the problems in Greece and Egypt and every other country that makes big headlines, I would problem connect more to the articles. Jumping straight into it makes things like that a little hard to follow.