"I had three students who got really good job offers, and I told them 'You have some extra time. Tell you what, put at the top of your resume that your job objective is to find a boring, well-paid job, just for the hell of it, and then interview with a couple more companies.'
The good thing is the companies who interviewed them realized that the students had a sense of humor. So this is great. In fact, two of them got even better job offers."
- Dr. Bennet Lientz at the UCLA Anderson School of Management
I'm taking a class this quarter which is very philosophical about the Internet. Answering these questions in one sentence was my first assignment.
1. What is the Internet?
The Internet is where people publish text, images, video, and audio digitally.
2. What are its features?
It is always accessible and is built upon universal digital languages.
3. What does it look like?
It looks like overlapping rainbows. (It looks like a rainbow because there is such a wide variety of websites and they are overlapping because there are so many websites.)
4. How does it work?
It works by continuously transferring data between servers and clients.
5. How has it changed you?
It has made me impatient by giving me a false notion that anything should be able to be obtained instantly.
6. How has it changed the world?
By creating an intangible, yet legitimate, virtual world that anyone is able to inhabit.
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