First Experience with Technology

Well let’s see I really don’t remember getting involved with technology until my elementary school years. That’s when I was in computer class playing Oregon Trail and Carmen Sandiego Word Detective on the computer. At the time it was fun and easy; a little hard when I couldn’t figure out the answers though. I had a computer at home but I really didn’t get on it too much only to play bowling and solitaire. By time I got in middle school, I had a technology class; to be exact it was my first one. I was pretty nervous about that class, I guess because I wasn’t too familiar with it. Once I got in the class, it wasn’t working out for me. For some reason, I always had the slow computer, the computer with poor internet access or the computer that couldn’t print. So while the teacher is guiding us through a process, I was always a couple steps behind; that was very frustrating.
By time I reached high school, I used technology more in my life. In school we used power points and the overhead projector for learning in the classroom. This is also around the time; I got my first cell phone and began doing less talking and more texting. Also I began to get more familiar with Microsoft word, e-mailing and at the time myspace. I used the internet for networking and research a lot. But to be honest for some research projects, I did use the encyclopedia; probably because I had a whole set in my home and when I didn’t have the internet at my home I used the encyclopedia.
Now in college it seems like everything I do involves technology. When talking to professors, classmates, turning in assignments and registering for classes; it’s amazing. I have graduated from cd players to I-pods that can hold thousands of songs and using a computer at home to carrying around a laptop. It makes me wonder what the future holds for all this technology and how it’s going to affect us; particularly in the workforce.