As I celebrate another birthday and reflect upon my youth, I realize how soft my generation has gotten. It used to be that to write a paper, one had to select a topic, go to the library, and find appropriate research materials using something called the Dewey Decimal System. Now all you have to do to achieve the same thing is to plug a few search terms into a search engine without leaving the comfort of your own home. Even worse was having to actually *read* through a lot of the material in order to even know whether or not it was even relevant to your paper. “Ctrl+F” has pretty much solved that little problem.

The absolute worst part (and this may be a little bit more specific to me, personally), was having to use a foreign language dictionary. I spent a lot of time in high school and college studying foreign languages, and spent hours of my life sweating over whether the translation of “wind” that I had used in a paper meant “air that’s moving fast” or “what you might do to a watch” (yes I had a watch that wound).

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