In two and a half years, the e-Learning System has not received much attention in your publication, despite the fact that it has become an integral part of every student's UF experience and nearly every professor's curriculum.
Between the lament ("It crashed right in the middle of my quiz!") of some students and the acceptance ("I can use Google to help me on exams!") of others, it is easy to misconstrue this polarization as satisfaction.
While I feel the system has many shortcomings as a medium for laziness as well as merit in its environmental worldliness, my greatest lament is for tradition.
Long gone are the days of paper syllabi - the dog-eared, ballpoint-pen-canonized leaflets of our forefathers. PDF documents take up cold space on our hard drives.
Gone are the days of constructing the essay by hand, drawing the beloved outline in anticipation of a hand-composed paper. Too often are our words drafted letter by letter into word processing applications, rather than word by beautiful word on that long-antiquated technology our parents and elementary school teachers called "paper."
Perhaps it is a certain reverence for the skill that is fine handwriting and the physical turning of the leaves of a book that behooves me to "pen" this short letter reminding readers of the merit of scholarship beyond their computers.
