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Blue_true

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13. All relative.

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Thu Aug 3, 2017, 06:41 PM

Aug 2017

When I was in high school, it took me weeks to get research that I needed for a project. Today, I can get 10 times the information in minutes on my smartphone.

I just finished a novel and had to do a large bit of research to write it. I was able to research complex subjects in minutes and get information that would have taken me months when I was in high school and college. Count 8-10 research events and the research time would have been years when I was in high school.

I applied myself in high school. I think kids today are smarter than I was at their age.

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