Technology-what an energy drainer sometimes!

Seeing as how it's almost my bed-time I thought I would write my third post for this week on the pros and cons of technology en la vida de Julia. Currently, there are more pros than cons.

Pro: Enables me to take graduate classes from the comfort and convenience of my own home.
Con: In one of my other classes, I have yet to receive an answer on what I consider a highly important question from the professor, even though I have asked him three different times in three separate emails. I am almost to the point of furious over this matter because in a non-physical interaction setting, people can just ignore/gloss over the things you ask. If I was on campus, I would obviously get an answer because I would not go away until I had one.

Pro: I am becoming more technological savvy and career attractive. My mom who herself is a librarian labels herself as being part of the old-school generation of librarians. Although she is savvy enough with the most major of applications and programs, she does not go out of her way to keep on the up and up-i.e. Library 2.0
Con: I am a bit torn on this as I am very much the traditionalist/historical lover at heart-I always fear and wonder if technology will gradually do away with all of the traditional/historical and what I consider beloved aspects of librarianship...

Pro: The world is at your fingertips...
Con: It honestly sometimes is mentally exhausting having to keep up with all of the technological mediums these days-multiple email accounts, facebook, google docs, google reader, rss feeds, etc... Although I hardly have all the time in the world due to a busy school/work & home schedule, I feel that if I don't log onto courseweb multiple times a day, I am going to miss out on something, be terribly behind. Sometimes I really wish I didn't have to bother with any of it.

I have class on Thursday evenings so unfortunately I couldn't participate in the live chat session. From reading the chat transcripts I saw that I need to subscribe to everyone's blogs through Google Reader. Me and Google Reader haven't had the best of times. I plan to do that step tomorrow, should be a fun day to spend my day off...

I do have to say though that my classmates are some of the nicest people I have ever met. Although online education def. has its negatives, people are always there to help you. I really like that aspect about it.