We can’t always get what we want... 

Who sang that?...

Now, that song is stuck in my head!….still can’t recall the singer....WAIT!

We discussed pet peeves in class, and it comes down to what WE want. We want others to talk more so we can talk less, chew with their mouths closed, signal in traffic and, for the love of EMAC, "Back out of that parking spot already, so we can make it to class on time!"

We want to utilize technology to the fullest. Write and post the most viewed collection of words and crash the internet......before that deadline. Ideally, we want science to align with our beliefs, because if it doesn’t, then we have to question EVERYTHING. We want shortcuts. 

We want_what we want_when we want it. 

According to statisticbrain.com, the average attention span decreased by 4 seconds in the span of 15 years. We have short attention spans that are getting shorter! 

We want a quick and easy take-away. 

We don’t want to question things. 

We adopt habits from norms without questioning. 

Sometimes ubiquitous habits, just like information, needs to be questioned. Cindy Mays' article discussing the downside to using a laptop in class suggests questioning our habits could actually give us MORE of what we want, what we really, really want.

Most of us, as EMAC majors, know the importance of being critical with written information. However, other people want what they want too. They want to trust the popular retweet, the newspaper journalist, and that brainy man/woman of science. Information can be absorbed, relayed and regurgitated without thought. 

Misinformation soup du jour, on menus all over the world and served 24/7. 

We want what we want, and as EMAC majors we want to deliver what they want before they want it. 

We just have to accept that sometimes, there are no short cuts. 

We must accept this little nugget of wisdom...

                                                                      (...even if it becomes our BIGGEST pet peeve. )