As we're prepping eldest for college, I find myself more and more annoyed by the current trend toward putting everything online -- and only online.
Basically, I miss paper.
Eldest is struggling with being nervous about this big change (not unwarranted - it's a big change!) and as I've been pondering the situation and trying to help him navigate, I can only think back to how things were when I was heading off myself.
What I remember most? The HUGE packets of information that I was sent. Schedules of orientation week activities. Maps. Rules. Suggestions. Checklists. All on paper. So I could get to them easily and highlight them or check them off etc.
And most of that information (probably all of it) is available. But it's in an email sent to his college email account and then you have to find the link and click it and then scroll and then click and...by the time you find it, you can say "aha"...and then if you need it again, you have to do allll that discovery over again.
It's so much more overwhelming. I'm overwhelmed and I'm not the one who really needs the information. Is it any wonder that he's struggling?
I'm tempted to start wholesale printing things, except that he's going to have to figure out how to navigate it all, since this seems to be the way of the world. But honestly, paper is underrated.
We'll get through it. 40 days until move in - he chose the bright and early 8 a.m. move in time (I suspect, since he procrastinated and then had a hard time finding which portal to log into and how to do it blah blah blah that's all that was left. But it's fine. I'd already reserved a hotel for the night before, so we're good there.)
It's fine. It's all going to be fine.
If I say it enough, will it be true?
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