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Issue date: 10/9/05 Section: Opinions

My mother has always been a fan of
the show Lost. For a full year, I was able
to sidestep her advances at me to watch
the show. Two weeks ago, I was sitting
at home doing some homework when she
approached me excited that my younger
brother had bought the fi rst season of the
series on DVD. She was excited because
this afforded me the opportunity to watch
the show at my leisure instead of placing
any time restraints on my schedule. It
would also allow us to ....bond. bond

Giving in, I began to watch disc one and
two over the past week. I found Lost to be a
huge surprise. It wasn't fi ctionalized reality
TV as I had thought. (Though the idea of
scripted TV being fi ctionalized reality TV
is a headache in and of itself.) The show
offered a complex look into the psychology
of each character and how he or she dealt
with the trauma of being deserted on an
island with 40 something strangers.

And surprisingly, none of them died
without AIM.

Recently, our campus was without
internet in the residence halls for three to
four days. Amazingly, this proved to be
as big of a trauma for Lewis students as
a plane crash. Why? Because we couldn't
get to our instant messaging programs.
The library was fl ooded with students
attempting to connect to the internet, and it
wasn't for homework related topics. I spent
nearly thirty minutes waiting in line to get
at a computer for directions to a market
research event I was planning to attend. I
was confused; had fi nals come early? Did
I not know something the rest of campus
obviously did?

And as I scanned the monitors
w a l k i n g
down row
after row
l o o k i n g
for a
v a c a n t
c o m p u t e r ,

I kept seeing i n s t a n t
messenger boxes in the corner of almost
every screen. I remember when my family
fi rst urchased America Online when I was
in the fi fth grade. Instant messaging seemed

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