Last Wednesday, Feb. 12 my precious phone completely stopped working. At first, I was panicked and genuinely concerned about how I would be able to function in my daily life without a cell phone. My daily life is all on my phone. I feel like I am constantly texting my friends about when and where to eat, checking my emails for The Spectator or school, and watching TikToks to distract myself. It turns out that I am just addicted to my phone. I was fine, even better off without it. It was almost liberating to be unable to be reached most of the time, and I was not mindlessly scrolling when I had free time. I actually had to wait in lines alone with nothing to do, which was very weird, and I could not walk down Martin’s Way with headphones in. My roommate had to wake me up when she woke up because I couldn’t set an alarm. It was a nice break into the real world from my phone.

What I have learned over the past six days without a phone is that I can use my computer to do most of the things on my phone.

Everyone, you don’t need your phone on you all the time. Put it down every once in a while.

Sincerely,

Claire Goldstein ’22

Co-Editor-in-Chief