Lab #31-One whole week without media!

This lab asks us to try to go a whole week without any type of media. We tried..we really did, but we may have cheated just a bit. We decided to do it the week of January 27th to February 2nd because we figured this week would end right before the Superbowl, something we just had to watch! It was so hard because sometimes we wouldn't be thinking about it and we'd walk through the Pickle Jar and look up at the TV and catch ourselves watching it or we'd get all ready to sign onto Facebook and then realize that the internet (in general) could always count as media. We also had a few school assignments that required the internet, in which cases we broke the rules! But overall, it wasn't TOO hard, besides the few random things such as those because we don't really watch tv or get on the computer that much and we certainly don't read the newspaper! Being at this school (NCSA) just keeps us so very busy with rehearsals, classes, meals, friends, homework, and then the best..sleep. These things are all we really have time for and if we DO have spare time, we don't really choose to spend it on things like TV or internet. We would definitly rather spend it with friends. There were only a few things we really missed in doing this lab.

Khara: "I barely even noticed that I was missing media in my life! I remain so busy that it wasn't as big of a deal as I thought it would be. The only thing I'd have to say got quite hard is that I wasn't able to watch the Golden Girls while I was getting ready each morning-I need my GG's to start off each day totally right!"

Mac: "It got kind of frustrating because I had to turn down going to the movies and I couldn't even go on the internet, something I rely on for keeping in touch with friends back at home."


Terris: "It really wasn't that bad. I just had to remember, like, whenever I'd go to the connector that I couldn't watch TV or the classic youtube videos of people singing cover songs that I can laugh at. I also couldn't watch Family Guy, the best show ever."

We decided that we would document a week day (Tuesday, January 29th) because we figured that we would cheat less then!

We all three have pretty similar schedules, since we are sophmores, so there is not too much variation in our days:

Khara:
1. I woke up, showered, got dressed, and ate breakfast.
2. I practiced sax for about 1.5 hours
3. I went to algebra, civics, lunch, biology, and then english.
4. I went to my room, put my books up, and then went to the gym with a friend, where I had to completely ignore the TV's that hang infront of the machines and just listen to my ipod.
5. I came back to my room, showered, went to dinner, and practiced for about another hour.
6. I went back to my room to do some homework (bahh poetry projectt!!)
7. I went down to the connector to hang out with peeps and had to turn down wathcing the wonderful "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang", but ended up having fun anyways!
8. I went up to my room, talked on the phone, and went sweet nighty night.
9. Zzzzz....zzzz.zzzzzzz.zzzzzzz

Mac:
1. I woke up, showered, dressed, missed breakfast because I was running late, and went to my ballet class at 8:30am.
2. I went to algegra, civics, lunch, french, and then english.
3. I hung out at the Pickle with some friends and then had to leave to go to two more dance classes.
4. I came back to my room, showered, went to dinner, came back to the connector to hang out with people and talk about random childhood memories and Mike&Ikes till inroom time.
5. I did some homework and went to sleep.

Terris:
1. I woke up, got dressed, and went to breakfast.
2. I went to biology, civics, english, lunch, and then geometry.
3. I practiced violin for about 2 hours.
3. I spent some time with the girlfriend and did my homework.
4. We went to dinner and then back to the connector to hang out.
5. I went up to my room to finish the rest of my homework and then came back downstairs to socialize a bit more.
6. I went upstairs to shower, and then slept.

In all of our experiences over even this day, we really didn't have that much trouble because we obviously stay too busy to ever be bored, which is usually what causes people to be drawn to media. They need something to do and talk about. We've already got far to much to worry about and do here because of our focus on school and our arts!

This all shows that we can certainly live just fine without media and TV. It is all simply entertainment!